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Nonpoint: Interview with Elias Soriano

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8 years ago

August 31, 2016

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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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Where does the band name come from? Wanting to be the best version of yourself at all times. The name is a reminder to hold ourselves accountable.

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How’s the reception from the fans of the latest album “Omen”? It’s been incredible. From seeing people singing along at shows to us seeing new supporters of all different ages, colors, and creeds joining the journey. Omen has been a pivotal album in our career and we’re proud of it!

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Where do you draw inspiration for the lyrics? Honestly, the lyrics are our stories. The stories of our struggles, our trials and our tribulations.

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Being Married and being in a band together. Do you feel that makes it easier or harder?

We love to do the Devil’s work together so for us its a match made in hell.

What’s your favorite horror movie?

That’s hard to narrow down but the first few that come to mind are Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil Rides Out, Wickerman, The Devils Reign featuring Anton Lavey, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, anything starring Vincent Price. We also got to see an advance screen of “Late Night with the Devil” featuring a very evil performance from our friend Dave Dastmalchian. We’re also looking forward to Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny” and are positive it will be a new favorite. The list goes on…..we are huge horror fans.

Favorite Non Horror Movie?

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (which is horror/noir adjacent) and The Burbs (also horror adjacent…haha.)

All of Quentin Tarantino’s films- our latest favorite is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because 1960’s LA…

What misconception of Satanists would you like to educate people on?

We’re not here to proselytize, force our beliefs on people, or educate people on them Selves, Satanism or anything else. If people are interested in exploring Satanism, we encourage them to do their research and question everything.

If you could bring back any dead musician, who would you pick and why?

We would have loved to do a song with Ronnie Spector who recently passed. Also would have been amazing to collaborate with Jack Nitzsche who arranged so many amazing songs.

If you could tour with any 2 bands, who would you want to tour with?

The Ronnettes & The Shangri-Las.

What has been your Favorite Tour so far?

The God is Dead Tour that we’re currently on is definitely the most evil and blasphemous tour yet. We find it very pleasurable to be able to continue expanding the rituals and seeing our nightmares come true on stage.

You were on “Dragula” with the Boulet Brothers, how was that experience?

It was a fiendish delight to collaborate with some of our fav monsters.

What was it like Touring with Danzig?

Another nightmare come true! We’ve both been fans for a long time and we’re obviously inspired by the wicked world Glenn has conjured. So to get to spend time with him and watch him live every night and to now call him a friend is completely surreal. He’s a legend— but was also one of the coolest, kindest, most unholy people we’ve had the carnal pleasure of touring with.

How’s the reception of the last album “God is Dead”?

Personally, we love the record and are very proud of what we’ve accomplished. As far as other peoples’ reactions…. we don’t know and don’t care! We pleasured ourselves and that’s what matters most.

What got you interested in the style of music you play? And how would describe your music?

We’ve always loved classic American music from jazz to blues to country to rock and roll and so on. We also love the pageantry of heavy metal and theatre. So for us it was a very organic culmination of our obsessions. Rock and roll has always been the devils music.

Have you visited the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts?

No we have not but Lucien did attend one of our rituals so we had a chance to share where we get our babies blood and all things Satan.

Have you had any bad encounters at shows because of the misconception of satanism?

No! We purposefully foster a live show environment where all are welcome, all should come being the most important person in the world which is themselves, whatever that may be. Even Christians! We believe music is meant to bring joy, transcendence… We just want to share the things we love; pink, rhinestones, big hair, great rock ’n’ roll, Satanic ritual, you know… but we have had churches assemble outside our shows, screaming through distorted PA speakers that God is not dead & wishing us all a “terrible time”. Why would their God not want us to have fun? This kind of behavior is only makes us more proud to be who we are and do what we love.