Nonpoint: Interview with Elias Soriano

By Ron Senyo

Nonpoint is currently on tour in support of their new release The Red Poison with Buckcherry. They will also be heading out with  Escape The Fate and special guests Get Scared, Failure Anthem, and Through Fire during the fall and winter months in the US.  Empire Extreme caught up with vocalist Elias Soriano at their stop in Baltimore MD.

Empire Extreme: Your out on tour with Buckcherry and Failure Anthem. How’s the tour going so far?
Elias: Excellent, our shows have been going full force.

Empire Extreme: You did a show recently in Sharon, Pennsylvania at Quaker State & Lube. That near my home town and QSL is famous for the wings. Did you get a chance to try them?

Elias: No, we didn’t try the wings. What did I try? Ohh.. It was the shrimp tacos.

Nonpoint – The Red Poison

Empire Extreme: The new album The Red Poison was released in July. How was the whole process of recording it?
Elias: It was good. I mean its’ new music, and a new guitar player. We have some kind of new style riffs, but kept it true to Nonpoint. It wasn’t too difficult of a record to write. Although it was a lot of work to get it done, but the songs came very easy.

Empire Extreme: Statement came out in 2000, that is 16 years ago.  How does that feel to have an album out that long and to have it still feel relevant?
Elias: It’s great! We really pride ourselves in our music. It’s the one thing you’re supposed to be able to rest everything on and I’m glad people appreciate what we have done and are doing.

Empire Extreme: Where there any particular bands that influenced you or pushed you toward the genre that you do?
Elias: I was just hanging out in the scene. I met a few people in the rock scene, they introduced me to it and the whole culture. I wasn’t into a lot of bands at the time. I wasn’t into it because I was into hip-hop at the time. This project came across my lap and the reaction was very positive. I then took it to the next level.

Empire Extreme: How was it playing OzzFest?
Elias: It was great! it was fun times! I met a lot of new friends on that tour.

Empire Extreme: Do you have any favorite and/or least favorite song to perform?
Elias: “My Last Dying Breath” is a good one. It’s the last one of the new record.   “Tribute” is a really tough one to perform. We get asked to play that one a lot. It’s a hip-hop style and takes two voices to do them.

Empire Extreme: Are you into any particular TV shows?
Elias: As of late I’m huge into Game of Thrones, I like Limitless. I like thinker shows, shows that go deep.

Empire Extreme: What’s your favorite moment on tour?

Elias: Probably this last run, going with Disturbed and doing drugsuring their medley
was pretty cool. It was a great reaction and the crowd was really digging it. I would call that, one of the great ones.

Empire Extreme: If you could bring back one musician from the dead, who would it be?
Elias: Marley….

Empire Extreme: What new bands have you been listening to?
Elias: Crobot! Those guys are a great live band.. Little Dickie he’s a white Jewish kid from Philly who spits like nobody business but talks about the funniest shit ever.

Empire Extreme:  If you can have any band do a cover of a NonPoint song who would you like to hear?
Elias: I would love to hear Chris Stapleton take a stab at one of our songs. That guy can sing his ass off. He’s got a blues heart and a blues voice. I think with that kind of emotion, I would behind one of our songs.

Empire Extreme:  Anything else you would like to say to the fans?
Elias: Pick up The Poison Red, it’s a banger.

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