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Nonpoint tracks ranked, lol.

The list nobody wanted! NP was *my* band in high school, as I discovered them on a sampler promoting their upcoming major label release - *Statement*. I connected with their raw energy, and immediately noticed how uniquely they approached most of the alt-metal tropes of the early 00's. Look this isn't the greatest band ever by a long shot, but they were important to me in my formative years, and hold a soft spot in my heart to this day. I still hold fast on the belief that they'd have sevendust / disturbed level success if they hadn't taken so many drastic chances on Development, and released Recoil or TTP instead. These are my highest rec's for the band.
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Development

Evil Ways

OK Bonus track. Everyone loves the In The Air Tonight (or thinks its an affront to humanity), but I argue this is the better cover for the band. IIRC it's a Statement leftover, as that album had a three-cover finale mashup with guest Darwin's Waiting Room vocalist Grimm (idk?) which was relatively high profile. Evil Ways is just supremely hummable and headbangable. Carry on.
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X

Chaos and Earthquakes

A straight-ahead, no frills throwback track from their newest album. Sounds like it could have been on Recoil.
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Recoil

Rabia

NP's finest reflection of their latin roots. You could just as easily shake your ass to this track as bang your head, and it's definitely a banger. One of the first track's I'd go to if I wanted to give a crash course on the band.
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Development

Mountains

Development was an exploration to say the least. Most of the album sounds like an entirely different band, but I'd argue this adventurousness and desire to grow led to their greatest collective moment - To the Pain. Mountains feels like a normal NP banger through the main riff, but the wall of chords through the chorus, and Elias' expanded range as a vocalist, makes this one of the more powerful tracks the band ever released.
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Nonpoint

I Said It

There's something to be said for dumb singles, but I was very surprised the band pushed this in the year 2011. Elias' gruff delivery is everything here. The song likely would have been immense were it on Statement.
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X

Dodge Your Destiny

The most vicious NP has been since To the Pain. Robb Rivera left most of his proto-thrash tendencies behind at the mid-point of the previous decade, but they come screaming back here. What really makes the song, though, is the cha-cha breakdown midsection, which has no business being as successful as it is.
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Vengeance

Witness

Vengeance was the transitional album from NP being a high-operating alt-metal powerhouse to becoming a run-of-the-mill butt-metal band. That said, they found comfort in the success they had with the wrestling bros, and i can't really knock them for playing it safe to guarantee they could continue with the lifestyle. Witness is the easy standout of the album, but the ballad "Breathe" deserves a look, too.
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Nonpoint

The Way I See Things

I remember thinking The Way I see things felt like a time machine, and I was in 2004 again popping Recoil in for the first time. I couldn't believe NP had found themselves again, despite being on their third and fourth replacements for the standout Andrew Goldman (departed after Vengeance amicably). Fresh, energetic, and just nostalgic enough - the song proved, following the electrfying opener, that *Nonpoint* wasn't a band's last ditch effort at survival, but a declaration that they had more to say and more to prove. And prove they would.
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Paralyzed

I'm still a bit blown away that thing song exists. The plodding rhythm guitars are there, sure, but this honestly sounds like NP taking strides to mimic aspects of 80's bands like The Cult. I never would have imagined it would be so successful. Some delicate lyrics from the visceral Elias help drive the somber effort home, and I'm hoping they continue exploring as they did some fifteen years earlier when "The Reward" hinted at a drastic change to come.
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Statement

Levels

A tasty treat sits at the back end of Statement. Following the soul-crushing finale of HIVE, NP leaves you with a deceptively heavy, moody jam that just couldn't exist these days.
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Recoil

Broken Bones

The first time we heard this, we knew it would be a live mainstay for years to come. And stay it would. Besides The Truth and a certain cover, this is the most likely Recoil track to be played at any given modern NP show.
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To the Pain

Skin

The mood in this song is just incredible, considering how chunky the riffs and production are. Honestly, the verse riff is like...top 3 for the discog. This track sat at the top of my personal list for quite a while.
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Recoil

Past it All

Easily the best pure ballad the band ever wrote. The acoustic version got a lot of attention, but the powerful chorus in the original version has always resonated with me far more.
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To the Pain

Buscandome

It took a minute, but this song really began to impress me over time. Seeing it live made it seem so distinctly *metal*. Elias rips one of his best screams in the bridge.
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Development

Your Signs

Your Signs is one of the more unique songs the band ever crafted, and honestly no other bands from the era were doing tracks like this. Distinctly NP, but original guitarist Andrew Goldman's style was developing before our eyes and he crafted a truly beautiful hard rock standout for the band's second major label release.
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X

Crashing

Clint Lowry assistance aside, this is the best the newest release has to offer. Nice staccato riffing and big chorus.
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The Return

Misery

The Return was....not great. Misery, though, is infectious. That chorus is BIG catchy.
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To the Pain

To the Pain

Now we're in tough ranking territory, as most of the songs above are some of the most unique in the band's catalog, and each is uniquely successful and thus difficult to rank. The title track of the band's most ambitious project wears that badge proudly - Andy and founding bassist KB crafted a truly beautiful melodic build up to one of the most powerful choruses of the band's career, and Elias (as he did on the entirety of TTP) absolutely nails it. The extended bridge section helps to show what sets both the band and Elias himself apart from their peers, with delicate cleans and tonal shifts that shouldn't work with a song this heavy. Truly one of the band's masterpiece tracks.
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Statement

Doublestakked

Doublestakked is an early indicator of the band's willingness to step outside the red tape of the era. What begins as an (admittedly hype AF) nu-metal grinder morphs into psychedlia and sludgy groove as the criminally underrated Andrew Goldman rips a wah-wah solo that sounds out of another era. Elias hadn't quite reigned in his gruff-textured voice yet, but still managed to deliver an earworm of a finale even in the softer building moments.
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To the Pain

Explain Myself

I feel like I've been one of the only stans for this track individually even as far back as original release. This thing is fucking heavy. Goldman's production doesn't *always* work on TTP, but sure as hell does here. One of the band's most outright metal moments. Elias' delivery in the prechorus might be my favorite vocal moment in the discography.
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Nonpoint

Lights, Camera...Action

After Vengeance and Miracle, most people had written the band off. Hell...they were hanging around easily five years longer than they, by all accounts, should have. It takes all of five seconds to realize they had found their energy again with LCA as the opening track of 2011's Self-Titled release. It's no secret that Elias never really took great care of his voice. After TTP there was an immediately noticeable downgrade in vocal quality for Vengeance, as he had shredded his vocal chords on the TTP touring cycle. He's been off and on since - and was certainly ON for this album. It was a miracle that the band found themselves again after losing Andy and KB, and LCA is the flagship track from the second era.
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Recoil

The Truth

This track is all about the setup. Development was....odd. A huge departure from Statement. while the album featured hands-down the best songwriting of the band's career (save TTP), and more on that later, the less aggressive production and minimal alt-metal moments led to many feeling that the album was a disappointment, despite its quality. Then came Recoil. The Truth was the lead single, and feeling that raw energy again was such a relief. Lyrically, the track is a puddle-deep political endeavor as the band had begin to mature and attempt tackling social issues rather than the largely introspective themes from the previous two albums, but it nonetheless led to a great music video. The track itself builds to a staggering crescendo - there's a recurring theme here, that when Nonpoint utilizes true metal to accent their normal tendencies, it almost always results in some of their greatest work.
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To the Pain

There's Gonna be a War

Speaking of metal - this track. When people think that Nonpoint is "What a Day" and "In the Air Tonight" and that's it - I show them this song. Robb Rivera's proto-thrash patterns in the verse serve as a perfect backdrop to the most unhinged and aggressive vocal performance Elias has ever laid down. Another shining example of Goldman's production working effectively to convey power.
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Statement

Mindtrip

There's just no other song like Mindtrip. The opening track to the major label debut is a rush of ludicrous vocal passages and structureless intensity that, at least for me, makes it one of the most memorable openers I've ever heard. An absolutely essential live staple to this day. Purely, resoundingly crushing psychedelia.
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Development

Excessive Reactions

ER is a standout on Development, not just for its intensity, but for its execution. In such a short runtime, the band manages to get you headbanging, hand-swaying, eyes-closed-grooving all in under three minutes. There's even a moody guitar solo, because Goldman was a fucking demigod compared to his peers.
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To the Pain

Longest Beginning / Shortest Ending

The culmination of their finest work. Nonpoint would never craft something so ambitious as To the Pain again, not by a long shot. More than that, though, and with retrospective, this is the final recorded moment of the band's golden era, in which Andy Goldman left behind both his finest individual work and the single most majestic track(s) in the discography. These are the finest of the band's career, despite being so distinctly unique comparatively. Each moment is resoundingly emotional and effective knowing that Goldman and KB would (artistically at least) be done after this album, but holy fuck does build-up to the final chorus tug at my heart.
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