Nonpoint On Australia And Crafting The Most “Nonpoint” Record Yet

As Nonpoint gear up for their long‑awaited return to Australia in February 2026, frontman Elias Soriano reflects on the band’s renewed energy, their fiercely independent creative era, and the unexpected joy of revisiting decades‑old songs. Speaking with Hi Fi Way, Soriano opens up about the band’s evolution, their live‑first philosophy, and why Australian crowds remain unforgettable.

Great to be talking to you, you must be excited to be coming back to Australia in February?
Yes, yes, yes. Very excited. It’s, been too long.

It’s hard to believe how much time literally does fly. I think it was at 2019, last time you were here, and it seems like the world’s changed so much in that time?
Quite a bit has changed, we’re excited to get back into Australia, see our fans again, and bring some Nonpoint cheer after the holidays.

Touring with Head PE, does that connection go back a fair way?
Oh, a long, long time. We’ve been friends for a very long time with Jared and the boys. I’ve done numerous tours since then, and enjoy them quite a bit. They’re good friends of ours, and a lot of fun to play with. They put on a great show, and it’s fun to be part of that type of ticket. It’s a good show to come to for sure.

Does it make it a lot easier, sort of, touring with friends and people that you really like and admire as well?
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I know it’s good for the fans, and that hour that you’re up there is the most important hour of the day, when you’re out there on tour, so I definitely want it to be an experience for the fans. When it goes from one band to the next, and that experience continues, it allows people to walk away remembering that for a very, very long time.

What is it about Australia that you’ve missed?
The coffee is one of them. The fans, really, you guys definitely have a different type of energy that is really infectious when you’re in my position on the stage. The smiling faces, the movement out there. Australian audiences are very engaged, and it’s when you’re on stage, you definitely appreciate it, so it comes out in the performance.

With this tour coming up, are you focusing on a particular album?
We’re definitely going to add some of the anniversary medleys to the set. We don’t have as much time as we get during those anniversary shows to put on our show in Australia. But we’re definitely going to take some of those pieces that people really enjoyed in those anniversary shows and add them to this headline show.

Do you get a little bit worried about coming up with new songs as more time slips past?
Well, you try to always be writing, we did put out a few EPs, so the writing process definitely continued to happen and we definitely kept putting out singles. When you’re putting together a full length, it’s a little bit different. You’re marrying the entire listening experience together. The hope is that people listen to it from beginning to end, and then feel like that they’ve gone through a story and a journey. That’s what we like to do.

Is that just something that’s just evolved that way in becoming the most Nonpoint album?
When we’re releasing it ourselves, now that we have our own label and we’re doing it through the independent model, it allows us to do anything that we want, basically, with no regrets. So, whether it lives or dies by the sword, I feel like this record is what we all look at each other now, the current line-up, we can at least look at each other and say, hey, this is what we’re all aiming for, because we’ve tried this, we’ve done this, we’ve done this type of record. I feel like after all of these years, this is what we have the most fun doing.

It must be just great not to have that external pressure either so that you can create and be what you want to be without others dictating what it should be?
Yeah, everyone has their professional opinion, and when they’re taking care of the bill they want to have a say in it. We’re taking care of the bill, so we have the final say, and it comes from an artistic side, and feeling and understanding that it took years for us to get to where we are right now. Wwe wanted to write twenty plus songs before we started picking, and we got there. The ones that we’re picking out right now, I think are carving themselves out to be something fun for us.

What was the energy like in the studio? Is the creative process still fun?
Writing music is definitely the most fun that I have when it comes to the process, a close second being performing, obviously. It just comes to getting to the point where we can all look at each other, knowing the type of band that we are, knowing that the end game is that live performance that really sells everyone on our band. We want to play music that translates live and also has a somewhat deeper meaning. When someone digs through the lyrics, they feel like that there’s substance there, even in the sense of it just being a fun song. Knowing that, that’s what we went for. But there’s a serious side to us, there’s a very bright side to us, there’s a dark side to us, and we like to have that almost Pink Floyd kind of mentality, where you don’t know what kind of record you’re going to get from us, but you always know it’s going to be a Nonpoint record.

I love that energy of what you did with Statement: 25th Anniversary (Live In The Studio). I think that sort of really captures the heart and soul of the band. Was that the original intention to do a live recording rather than remaster with a few bonus tracks, or something like that?
Everybody was starved for live performances coming out of the pandemic, and we wanted to give them something that they could see and see us in our element, and then to turn that into something that then they could stream and enjoy at home at any given time later. It was really us not wanting to miss that opportunity to celebrate those anniversaries, but we’re a live band and people wanted to see that, so we wanted to tee that up for them.

When you look back on 2025, just even looking at your Facebook page now with all the live photos and stuff like that, you’d have to see it as another pretty huge and successful year?
Yeah, we were blessed with the Lacuna Coil tour. It was such an amazing way to finish off the big part of the touring season. We got a couple holiday shows coming up at the end of the year, but that tour was such an amazing blessing, and the band and that crew are so amazing and professional and sweet. It was a great tour and a great experience to go to cities that we had never been before and get an opportunity to get introduced to their fans. It was an opportunity for a lot of our fans that had been waiting decades to finally get a chance to see us. A lot of really amazing things happened over the last two months. Before that, doing all of the anniversary shows, playing some of that music that really created the ecosystem, that we have had an amazing career on. To be able to celebrate those albums was awesome. It was great to play those songs again. Some of those songs we never played live, never had the opportunity to play live. So, people fell in love with them, listening to them back when those records were very popular and for us to even relearn them and play them live, that was amazing. It was awesome.

Was that a challenge you as well, trying to remember how to play some of those songs?
It was fun relearning a lot of the cadences, getting back to where my head was during a lot of those lyrics, it was a great experience. It was a blessing in that sense of going back in time and reliving some of those moments. There a little bit of muscle memory in there as well, that once you sort of start getting into it, it comes back a lot quicker than you think.

Interview By Rob Lyon

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