I read this thing once about Robert Pattinson. He was being harassed by a fan and invited them to dinner, and then he just bored the hell out of them –talked their ears off about the most boring, uninteresting stuff until they left,” smirks Bad Omens vocalist Noah Sebastian, as he recalls a story about the A-list Hollywood actor.
“He out-punished the fan. I thought that was really amusing. If I ever had that experience where a fan wouldn’t leave me alone, and we went to dinner, once they got to know me, they’d be like, ‘Ah, OK, I’m gonna move on. Back to K–pop, back to Taylor!’”
Two years ago, Noah Sebastian was just another frontman in another mid-tier metalcore band. Well-liked, but, honestly, probably not high-profile enough to inspire the kind of mania that might make him empathise with the bloke who played Batman and that vampire. But a lot has happened to Bad Omens since. Released in February 2022, their third album, was an absolute smash. Its beautifully sweet pop melodies, grooving riffs and Noah’s soul-searching, confessional vocals connected with people so quickly, and on such a massive scale, that it separated the band from the modern metalcore pack and catapulted them into the conversation about metal’s next superstars alongside the likes of Spiritbox and Sleep Token.
