Written by: Sam Santiago
Emerging from a vivid blend of occult fantasy, classic heavy metal influence, and unapologetic theatricality, OMENBRINGER has carved out a distinct identity that thrives as much on visual spectacle as it does on sonic weight. Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, and built around a core concept of witchy stoner metal infused with themes of fantasy, sexuality, and the occult, the band has steadily grown a devoted following through word of mouth, live energy, and an unmistakable creative vision. All these things made it a must for us to track down the band and ask a few questions.
Growing up huge fans of Black Sabbath, DEATH, and Pentagram, we were drawn to Omenbringer when we first saw a few clips from their live performance of "Tungs" off their recent release "Thicc Darkness".
The bands sound really made us remember why we fell in love with heavier music. The groove is real with Omenbringer and we have cranked their album a few times over the last few weeks while enjoying some greens and the vibe hits even harder.
We spoke with OMENBRINGER lead singer Molly Mari Kent aka "The Supreme" about the bands origins, influences, creative process, and the ever expanding world they are building both on and off stage.
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Truly Disturbing: OMENBRINGER came out of a very distinct visual and sonic concept. Can you walk us through how the band originally formed and what sparked the idea in those early days?
Molly Marie Kent: Leading up to 2019, I’d been expanding my musical tastes into the metal realm. It inspired me to start writing my own witchy songs, which I believed in right away and started to get excited about my concept of a stoner metal witch band that leaned heavily into fantasy, sexuality, and the occult. I wanted fans of Tolkien, Frank Frazetta, horror and camp, Bettie Page and Elvira to be united under one common banner. Finally, after all these years of wishing to have my own band, I decided to form one.
OMENBRINGER was always conceptualized to be visually captivating, but once your curiosity led you to us, you were bound to stay for the music. We are intentionally salacious and tempting to the eye to entice our audience to check us out. We have spent a minimal amount on advertising; our growth is 90% word of mouth and grassroots. Once you come to see us, you’ll be telling all your friends how “you HAVE to see this band!” We are as visually entertaining as we are aurally entertaining. We have style AND substance, which is rare these days.
TD: When you first started writing together, what were the earliest metal albums or bands that really shaped your sound or made you want to go heavier?
MMK: My influences are many, but mainly I wanted to pay homage to my favorite early metal and 70s rock bands. Thin Lizzy is, above all, my favorite band and biggest inspiration. Phil Lynott was the most charismatic and magnetic frontman and such a brilliant person and performer. We take a lot of influence from Thin Lizzy’s guitarmonies and attack.
I am also a huge Black Sabbath fan, so of course we pay homage to Ozzy and Tony Iommi. Iron Maiden’s epic storytelling, Pink Floyd’s soundscapes, and Pentagram’s grit all lend to our unique cauldron of influences as well. Also, Queens of the Stone Age and Josh Homme’s sexy vocal swagger and harmonies can be heard here and there in our music.
I also take a lot of influence from classical composers like Beethoven, Modest Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. Classical music is the original heavy metal. It’s rife with emotion and soaring themes that make the heart swell.
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TD: Your music blends doom, stoner rock, and a strong witchy aesthetic. How do you describe OMENBRINGER to someone hearing you for the first time?
MMK: I would describe us as the stoner metal witch band of your dreams. One metal band to rule them all. Too satanic and sexy for some, but for others, the perfect amount of mischief and metal.
TD: The band has a very strong identity visually and lyrically. What themes do you consistently return to when writing songs?
MMK: I write about many themes: love, betrayal, boundaries, revenge, sexuality, and of course witchcraft and Satan, not to mention my penchant for fantasy and camp. I write about things I’m going through, fantasies of mine, dreams and their meanings, past lives, and advancing the true self.
I have hundreds of ideas in my song folders, and enough written songs for many albums. We have much yet to create, and many themes to explore on future albums.
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TD: Who is primarily responsible for writing lyrics and shaping the core ideas, or is it more of a collaborative process across the band?
MMK: I, The Supreme, write all the lyrics and vocal melodies. My bandmates trust my leadership and vision. They know that OMENBRINGER is my brainchild and honor me with their collaboration. We work together on riffs and concepts, but they trust my final say.
I like to say that I am our captain, but the ship can’t run without the skill and expertise of a loyal and solid crew. When I have a crazy idea, instead of fighting me, they run with it, they expound upon it, they help me complete the vision. We are bound to have an extensive and complex catalog because we work so well together as a team, and because each of us is becoming better and better musicians because of OMENBRINGER. We push ourselves together to realize our dreams and manifest the fantastical into reality.
TD: A lot of your newer clips online show a strong live energy. How important is performance and visual presentation to the OMENBRINGER experience?
MMK: Our live performance is EVERYTHING. The recordings are beautiful and very intentionally are a different experience from the live performance. Once folks see us live, they become part of The Coven. They become fans for life.
We are the most worth the money you will spend on any concert. Our live performance completes our music. There are plenty of bands out there that can make a good record, but when you see them live, all that production is gone and they just stand on stage in their T shirts and play. We are up there giving our Coven a SHOW.
We are going to leave you wanting more after you see us and telling all your friends they have to come with you to the next show. You are going to feel the love at an OMENBRINGER show. Our fans adore us and we love them right back.
I’ll be up on stage pulling shapes, making jokes, being sexy, flirting with the audience. The rest of the bandmates are on stage running around and banging their heads, really getting into it and connecting with you through music and performance.
You are going to feel like you’re part of something at our show. We are all dressed up in our OMENBRINGER finery, and we encourage our audience to always treat our shows like a special occasion, to don their coolest, sexiest duds and get excited for a real event.
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TD: What horror films or darker media had the biggest impact on you growing up, and do any of those influences still show up in your music today?
MMK: Disney’s Fantasia, specifically the “Night on Bald Mountain” segment, had an enormous influence on me as a child. It was my first visual representation of the occult, and that segment was executed so perfectly, from the orchestra's performance to the art conceptualized by Kay Nielsen.
I was thrilled by the depiction of the Walpurgisnacht, the night when the devil lets loose his chaos on the world and the spirits of the underworld are awoken in revelry. This was my first and very fondest introduction to Satan and I was fascinated from the jump.
The music from A Night on Bald Mountain makes several appearances on Thicc Darkness, and our second album pays direct homage to the piece and will be titled A Night on Black Mountain. The album loosely tells the story of the band trying to overtake an evil witch’s castle, but shipwrecking on the mountain, being taken prisoner and tortured in the dungeon, having to fight a dragon, and narrowly escaping through a trap door.
TD: You released Thicc Darkness in 2024 and followed it with new material and singles in 2025. Where are you currently at in terms of writing or recording a full follow up album?
MMK: We are hard at work mixing our second album at the time of writing this interview. We plan to release singles in the late summer and early fall and release the full length album by October.
We actually started recording our second album in the fall of 2024. We had already been writing tracks for it dating back to 2023 and workshopping them in practice in the summer of 2024.
I started recording vocals at my cousin Zach’s home studio in January of 2025, and didn’t finish until August of that year. My cousin is a voiceover artist, actor, and father of four, so we had to book sessions whenever we could, but it was great to work with him and he really helped coach some excellent work out of me.
Cory played lead guitar, bass, and synths on our first record (he even recorded the throat singing in “Tempest” himself), but for the second album he’s playing lead guitar, bass, synths, throat singing AND drums. Now you see why we call him The Professor.
We’ve been working with the same producer from our first album, Kevin Szymanski. Kevin worked on one of my favorite albums of all time, Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age. He helped produce and mix the first album, and for the second album he’s handling the mixing while we produce the record ourselves.
Everything we do is a labor of love and entirely self funded. It is a dream that we believe in completely and we’re all working toward the same goal: being able to make a living as full time musicians. From the artwork and videos to the music itself, I have personally funded everything we do.
We are planning to launch a Kickstarter later this summer to help recoup expenses, and if we can meet our stretch goals, the plan is to make music videos. Our Coven loves to support us, so I know we will have success with our Kickstarter. The more we make, the more music and media we will create for the Coven to enjoy.
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TD: Fans have really been responding to your recent live clips and short performance videos. Did you expect that kind of traction online, or has it changed how you approach releasing content?
MMK: I have always used the Wayne’s World approach with everything we do: if you build it, they will come. Make the art, and the people who are attracted to it will find it.
I have always been sure that once folks found us, they would be there to stay. We are making such badass music and we are also visually very entertaining and engaging, so I’m not surprised at all that we’re getting a lot of folks joining the Coven from our social media posts.
Making content is probably the bane of most artists’ existence. We aren’t only expected to make our art, but also expected to document how it’s made from all sorts of angles with flashy effects and snarky copy.
The truth is, all of us just want to play and perform our heavy music for our audience to love, but if we have to play the online game to help people find us, so be it. Game on.
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TD: Can you break down the current lineup and how each member contributes creatively inside OMENBRINGER?
MMK: Cory Cline is known as The Professor. He’s our guitar wizard, rifflord, and grumpy old man genius. He’s brilliant and not only records our scratch tracks and writes riffs and runs our stage setup, he also makes hilarious online content and is figuring out how to work the algorithms online. He’s extremely resourceful. When there is a problem, he’s the first one to solve it. He plays every instrument in the band, so he’s the most talented and most technically knowledgeable member of the band. He is the “left hand” of The Supreme, and as a satanic witch, that is high praise.
Spookie Rollings is our steadfast warrior. He plays rhythm (and occasionally lead) guitar. We’re all heavily influenced by Thin Lizzy and we write a lot of guitarmonie riffs, so having two guitarists capable of playing lead is a must for us. He’s Native Muscogee and weaves his culture into his costumes and performances. Spookie is very creative and creates stage props, costume pieces for himself and the bandmates, helps with graphic design like posters, flyers, and merchandise, and even screen prints our shirts and coozies. For someone with such a calming in person presence, he puts on a hell of a show on stage.
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Cody Hatt is the Krypt Keeper and our amazing drummer. He’s young, dumb, and full of drum. He’s the best drummer in Nashville, the best drummer I’ve ever seen. He’s also a good time boy and has a “Ringo” quality of keeping it fun and light and also being the glue that keeps us together and in good spirits. As our music evolved and got more and more complicated, we had to find a drummer who could deliver the blast beats and energy we needed. We really stepped up our game when he came into the picture because he has the chops to keep up with our ever evolving catalog.
Kaitlyn Gerdau is our newest member, our bass player, our DreamWeaver. She is young, talented, and beautiful with her own brand of swank and charisma. She’s also the goofiest goober to ever goob. She’s really showing herself to be a perfect personality fit with our band (of huge dorks). She’s also really showing an aptitude for learning and gets better with every practice. We are excited to unveil her for the first time on stage at our next show.
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And I am The Supreme, The Banshee of the Bog, The Grand High Witch, THE OMENBRINGER, Molly Marie Cooper. I am our singer and the main songwriter. The band was born of my brain and everything from the lyrics, melodies, our look, our personas, how we present ourselves, our logo, our artwork, everything we do is of or by my grand design. After I started forming the band and as we locked in each member, the band’s trajectory has changed and is following my plan to make us all full time musicians, not to mention famous and rich one day. I am our financer, our promoter, our leader, our captain, and I intend to lead us into the wide open and steer us straight toward our much deserved fame and fortune.
TD: Being a female fronted band in heavy music still comes with unique challenges and expectations. Have you encountered any industry or scene related obstacles because of that, and how do you navigate it?
MMK: I am confronted with misogyny on a daily basis. I’ve had men in the industry make passes at me, knowing full well I am both married and completely and utterly out of their league. We’ve had plenty of nasty comments online too.
But what these morons don’t realize is that engagement, even hateful engagement, helps us. The hate comments help the posts reach further to the folks who love our music and look. People talk around me when asking about our songwriting or lyrics, expecting one of the men in the band to have written the song or melody.
People write us off for being sexy and think that we can’t possibly be good if we’re “trying so hard.” I guarantee they haven’t listened to our music, because if they had, they’d know how beautiful and complex it is and shut their mouths.
It is what it is, but to quote Curtis Jackson: “If they hate, then let them hate and watch the money pile up.”
We aren’t for everyone, but those that get it really get it, nay, they love it. We’re not here to make your racist uncle like us, we’re here to kick some ass and Hail Satan and play songs about tiddies and getting your pussy ate and invite trans and queer folk and people of color to come out and fly their freak flags with us.
If that’s too sexy and satanic for you, go listen to whatever you like. You don’t have to leave a hate comment on everything you dislike. What if you spent that same time leaving a comment on something you did like? What would that mean to that artist?
Why not go out and be excellent to each other? I want us to be the biggest band in the world. Notice I didn’t say biggest metal band, I said biggest band period. All of the biggest bands of all time have been all male. The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, etc.
We are going to be the first “biggest band in the world” to be female fronted. We are going to break chains and crumble walls and show our tits and ass while we do it. And y’all are gonna eat it up, and the haters can eat their hearts out.
TD: Looking forward, what direction do you want OMENBRINGER to evolve into over the next few years, both musically and visually?
MMK: I see us playing bigger and bigger shows, winning over audiences around the world, spreading our message of love and big titties. In five years, we will be playing festivals around the world, in ten we’ll be household names playing stadiums and arenas with pyrotechnics and special effects.
We’ll have animated movies, music videos, maybe even video games and animated porn. In twenty years, we’ll be legendary status with Grammys and platinum records and accolades galore.
As we grow, it’s my goal and our goal as a band to better the lives of others with our music and financial success. I hope to revitalize the idea of a massive annual live concert and festival for charity.
Ozzy Osbourne recently passed as I am writing this, and had his own massively successful charity as his final concert. We are creating a Coven of Kindness, and I hope our legacy will be even more than just the music we create, but also the lives we are able to touch and impact in a positive way.
Hail Satan. Hail OMENBRINGER.
OMENBRINGER continue to build a world that is as theatrical as it is heavy, merging myth, metal, and performance into something unmistakably their own. With a rapidly growing following and a clear vision for both stage and studio, the band is carving out a space that feels equal parts spectacle and sonic force.
A huge thank you to OMENBRINGER for taking the time to speak with us. We look forward to seeing them bring The Coven to life on stage, and hopefully catching a California show very soon.