Most people know Omar Doom as an actor. The 45-year-old developed a close friendship with famed director Quentin Tarantino in the late Nineties, who encouraged Doom (born Omar Makhdomi) to pursue acting as a career. The Pulp Fiction filmmaker eventually cast him for a small role in his 2007 thriller, Death Proof, and then granted him a more prestigious performance as one of the eight basterds in his 2009 hit, Inglourious Basterds. However, Doom has committed most of his creative life to making music, having fronted the band Doomington with DJ Stretch Armstrong and Eli Escobar. For the last eight years, Doom has made EBM music under the name Straight Razor.