Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Thunder Underground, Nonpoint’s Robb Rivera confirmed that the band are working on a new album. The effort is expected to be released in 2026.

Rivera said the following:

“We’ve got 16, 17 songs. We’ve got quite a few, and a lot in the can that we haven’t gotten to yet. But, yeah, I’ve been at my house with my electronic kit, recording drums… I think I put up a video of a new song somewhere. And the process is good. We’ve taken our time with it. It’s been two years we’ve been writing this thing, maybe even more. We just got a bunch of ideas. And next year it’s gonna come out.”

He continued:

“Full album this time. At least that’s the plan. Right now I’m looking at maybe 10 songs, which is, that’s a full album these days, I guess. The EP idea was a great experiment. We just wanted to try things out. It worked. Some people liked it, some people didn’t. Me, I personally just like doing the singles. I just think you can focus on the one song. But I think we’re so happy with this new music that we wanna put out 10 [songs].”

He also added the following after the interviewer pointed out that the band used to release albums more frequently:

“Yeah, we were actually just talking about that. Every two years we had an album out. [It was a cycle of] record, tour, write, record, tour, write. It became too much. We never really took a breather. We did 10 albums that way. And so we took our time — well, we had to take our time with ‘Ruthless’ because of the pandemic. We were gonna release everything in 2020, and everything shut down. The EP was already recorded. We recorded in February [of 2020], and then the pandemic happened. So we shut down all plans. We had actually gone dark online. We were not gonna say nothing for a while. And then, so then when we decided to do [new versions of] ‘Alive And Kicking’ and ‘Frontlines’, quarantine version, just to be visible and stuff. And then we started putting merch, we did the masks and all this other stuff. But a full album, I think it’s time. Since 2018 — it’s eight years without a full album. But it’s not like we haven’t had new music. We put out two EPs, we put out [the 2024 single] ‘Underdog’, so we put out 11 songs, which is really, if you look at it, it’s a full album. It’s just done in parts.”

[via Blabbermouth]