Sorry, callback to Brokencyde. Anyways, Nonpoint are on tour with HedPE. In Colorado, they played a small club show. I don’t know if the rest of the stops on the tour are that lucky, but if they are, good for them.
I’ve seen bands make the Marquis feel big, but the stage always felt small as fuck. Because it literally is. It is a small stage.
Nonpoint is the first, and therefore only, band I’ve seen make the stage also feel big with a massive amount of, my new favourite buzzword, kinetic energy. The venue felt large, the stage felt massive, the energy was kinetic, and the setlist was ballsy. What type of band starts their set with a major hit?
A band with testicles so big it starts Breaking Skin, that’s who. Speaking of testicles, it was also a very intimate show, with lead singer Elias Soriano getting right into the front of stage audience.
Big ups to bands who respect their fans enough to give them both a big time and a good time. Nonpoint is a known quantity, they could have easily phoned it in.
But they didn’t. And neither did the never ending onslaught that is HedPe, a group who apparently don’t know what a ballad is so just go 100% for however long they’re on stage. They’re like a funny car race but you keep asking yourself, “isn’t the race supposed to be over? How are they still going?” As a wannabe former fat person, I’m all for that. But if you’re not looking for a cheaper, subscription free alternative to the gym, you might not be all for that. And if that’s the case,
Bitch, get the fuck out.
Sidenote: we all know HedPE comes from the days of cringey radio metal. But boy do make up for it in heart pounding aggression, so still bitch, get the fuck out.
A local musician named Phil Mauro opened up this particular show. He was a good frontman – I just wish his backing band was made of people and not a macbook. The things Phil Mauro could do as Phil Mauro and The Boys. Or The Crew. Or The Human Centipede. Anybody but a macbook. Could be magical. Maybe one day he’ll find his Human Centipede, because the only thing he’s missing to be a force in Colorado is his human peeps.
Anyways, I’m going to go make a brand of Fuck Your Social Media oxygen for the 95% of bands who forget Colorado is at a mile high.
Don’t forget about my mailing list! Or do forget and hurt my feelings. Prick.
