In the first week of September, metalists NONPOINT were touring for the first time in two years. While traveling from one city to another, the band’s trailer unhitched and crashed into a wooded area, damaging equipment and merchandise. While all this was going on, two band members also contracted COVID-19 and were forced to leave the tour altogether.
“If someone hadn’t been filming when it all happened, people probably wouldn’t have believed it,” singer Elias Soriano says of the most exhausting and obstacle-filled week for the band in years.
You thought it couldn’t get any worse than 2020 and fighting COVID? How about watching your trailer full of gear roll into the Tennessee woods at 75 mph?”
Last week, NONPOINT rescheduled just under a dozen shows on its current tour after “several band members” tested positive for COVID-19.
Frontman Soriano said in a recent interview:
“I’m nervous about what’s going on with COVID. We’re going to have VIP meetings where fans are going to see us up close and ask questions and take pictures with us. And maybe we’ll infect someone. What were we supposed to do? – We all got vaccinated. We’ll make sure that our team – especially our tour manager and our merch vendor, who are really going to be in the crowd all the time, are safe and hopefully people around them will wear masks if they can.
Our fans are very understanding, they’ve always been that way over the years,” he continued. – So I think they understand what we’re dealing with. I hope the pandemic situation starts to change very, very quickly, but if it doesn’t, we already have a very, very strong plan B that will keep our fans excited and happy.”
As a reminder, NONPOINT launched their independent record label, 361 Degrees Records LLC, in January of this year. They filmed the process of creating the label and creating new music in a documentary series called “The Road to Independence,” which can be seen on YouTube and the band’s official website.
