Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience

Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience (shorten as FCUE) is a Serbian metal band from Požarevac. The name of the band comes from the Mexican soap opera actor Fernando Colunga Olivares.

Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience
Origin	Požarevac, Serbia
Genres	Death and roll, grindcore, death metal
Years active	2010 – present
Labels	Ciklonizacija Records

Band history

The band was formed in 2010 by the actual line-up of Marko Živković, Stefan Milenković and Antonio Jovanović. FCUE started as an informal side-project, formed mainly for recreative purposes; mixing the musical bases of genres like grindcore, with some comical and parodic lyrics about soap operas and various cultural icons like Steven Seagal.^[1][2]

The name of the band was inspired by the famous Mexican actor, Fernando Colunga; who is compared by the line-up with the American actor Chuck Norris, due to the vast number of characters that Fernando Colunga interpreted in his career.^[3][4][5][6] Nevertheless, the band took a more professional course in the next years, starting with the releasing of their album Toxic hog cult, leaving away the grindcore background, and starting to show Death and roll influences.^[7]

In 2019, the band gained considerable notoriety by the Latin American media (particularly in Mexico), given the characteristic name of the band. In the same year, FCUE released the single Inhale My Misery.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} The online magazine Helly Cherry described the new single of FCUE as a "stylistically completely different from everything recorded by the band during its first three years".^[13] A short time later, the band made the publication of their following single: La Usurpadora. This song continued with the musical maturation of the band, enjoying a relatively positive acceptance among the new fans.^[14]

A demo song, Dia de Muertos, was published in November the 1st (Date in which the Day of the Dead is celebrated in Mexico). According to the German music distributor Fangtasia Music, this work has an approach more similar to that of the oldest songs of the band, combining the styles of slamming death metal and grindcore.^[15]

Discography

Studio albums

• Toxic Hog Cult (2012)

Singles

• Jama se preljeva (2011)
• Charade (2012)
• Inhale My Misery (2019)
• La Usurpadora (2019)
• A perfect day to be dead (2023)

Demos

• Telenovela 1 (2010)
• Sangriento e brutal telenovela (2010)
• Scorched Dominion of Human Waste (2010)
• Nekromansa (2015)
• Dia de muertos (2019)

References

1. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience". Metallum: Metal Archives. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
2. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience". Spirit of Metal. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
3. Garrido, Diana (21 June 2019). "La banda de metal inspirada en Fernando Colunga que debes escuchar". Cultura Colectiva. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
4. González, Jesús (31 May 2019). "AH PRRO: FERNANDO COLUNGA INSPIRA A UNA BANDA DE METAL Y TODOS ESTAMOS DE WTF?!". Sopitas. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
5. Redacción. "Conoce a la banda Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience". e-consulta. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
6. Redaccion (2 June 2019). "Fernando Colunga sirve de inspiración para metaleros en Serbia". Excelsior. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
7. . Ciklonizacija Records. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
8. Santamaría, Jorge (4 June 2019). "Fernando Colunga, ¡ídolo en Serbia!". Excelsior. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
9. Bravo, Miguel. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience ya se encuentra en Spotify". FayerWayer. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
10. Figueroa Tapia, Jorge (14 June 2019). "Del mame a la fama: Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience". Summa Inferno. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
11. MILENIO DIGITAL. "Fernando Colunga inspira a banda de metal Serbia". MILENIO. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
12. Sagastegui Avilés, Daniela (3 June 2019). "Esta es la historia de Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience #Entrevista". Chilango. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
13. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience se novim singlom vratili iz diskografske hibernacije". Helly Cherry. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
14. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience: Singl "La Usurpadora" je nastavak sazrevanja benda". Helly Cherry. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
15. "Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience: "Dia de Muertos"". Fangtasia Music. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

External links

• Official BandCamp