There's a lot of noise in heavy music right now. A lot of records painting sadness, processing struggle, decorating a world that's already heavy enough. Nonpoint frontman Elias Soriano knows it — and says his band's next album is the antidote.
In a new interview with Sportzwire Radio, Soriano laid out what fans should expect from the Florida groove-metal veterans' upcoming full-length: something stripped of pretense, built to hit, and designed to remind you why you started blasting music in the first place.
"I think people are gonna have fun with it," Soriano said. "It's different than what's on the radio. It's different than what people are dropping right now. It's not what anybody else is doing. That's the best way I can describe it. It's NONPOINT. It's NONPOINT and it's only NONPOINT."
The Nu Metal Conversation
Soriano didn't dodge the elephant in the room. With artists like Spiritbox, Bad Omens, and a wave of metalcore acts pushing the genre into mainstream visibility again, everyone's talking about a nu metal resurgence. Soriano sees it less as a revival and more as a correction.
"I think people remember how fun it was back then," he said. "The music right now leans — it's decorating a time that's kind of sad. There's a lot of struggle and a lot of money problems in the world and war problems in the world, and mental health because of post-pandemic generation, and that is what paints new inspiration. So music, I think people are starting to remember, is for getting away from all that."
The early 2000s weren't just a genre moment — they were a permission slip to be loud, physical, and excessive. That's what Soriano says Nonpoint is reaching for again. "A spectrum of power and excess," as he put it. "I think fans and everybody, we all miss that. So, we definitely are trying to bring that back to this new music."
16 or 17 Songs Ready
The album isn't a distant promise. Last September, drummer Robb Rivera told Thunder Underground that the band had "16, 17 songs" ready to go with "quite a few more in the can." That's a deep well to draw from — enough material to be selective, which usually produces sharper records.
Soriano's vision for how it lands: "People are gonna hear our new record and they're gonna have fun. I really feel like they're gonna have fun again, in the way that we intend it to be, which is empowering, which is retrospective, which is painted with a little bit of self-awareness, a little self-growth and then some initiative and drive and motivation peppered throughout."
Empowering. Retrospective. Self-aware. That's a more nuanced pitch than most bands tease with. It suggests a band that isn't just chasing nostalgia — they want to inhabit the best version of what they've always been.
What to Expect
Nonpoint's catalog runs the spectrum from the raw aggression of Statement (2000) and To the Pain (2002) to the radio-polished swing of Miracle (2010) and the heavier pivot of X (2018). If Soriano is talking about bringing back "fun" and "power and excess," that points somewhere between those poles — not a pure throwback, but a leaner, harder version of what they did when the scene was still burning.
They've also already confirmed a spot at Welcome to Rockville 2026 in Daytona Beach, Florida this May. If the album timeline lines up, that could be one hell of a coming-out party.
No official release date has been announced. But with 16-plus songs in the can and a frontman talking like this, the wait shouldn't be long.
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