Fernando Colunga inspired a death metal group

• He inspired a death metal group.
• Fernando Colunga is a musical inspiration?
• Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience is a Serbian band.

News has recently spread that the popular Mexican actor has inspired a death metal band which is named after him. So did Fernando Colunga inspire a death metal group? We tell you!

The star of popular TV soaps has stolen thousands of hearts, thanks to his gallantry and great talent. He has also crossed borders as his shows air all over the world and he has even inspired other artists.

Fernando Colunga inspired a death metal group

Recently, one of the many things he inspired has caught everyone’s attention. It is Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience, a death metal band that took the image of the handsome actor as a reference.

Furthermore, most of their songs have titles related Fernando Colunga’s career, such as the telenovelas he has starred in, his memorable characters or the plots of some of his television projects.

Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience

According to El Sol de México, Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience is a band from Pozarevac, a town located in eastern Serbia. According to the band’s vocalist, it was created with the idea of ​​parodying soap operas from this part of the world.

Although the idea was to make a satire of Latin American soap operas, the band points out that it was not about making fun of the actors but rather about making fun of culture — not in a pejorative sense, just in a way that would show the similarities between different societies.

Fernando Colunga inspired Serbian fans

«Many rockers and metal fans do not admit that they secretly watch these soap operas with their families, but this happens often,» said vocalist Antonio Jovanovic, in an interview for Serbian BBC. «It’s like wrestling — many say they don’t follow it and yet everyone knows what happens in it,» he added.

Mexican actor Fernando Colunga Olivares, 56, became known in Serbia in the 1990s with soap operas such as Esmeralda, María la del Barrio, Nunca te olvidaré and Poder y pasión, as they all reached the Balkan country.

La Usurpadora

It was thus that in 2010, Fernando Colunga Ultimate Experience or FCUE was formed, they define their style as death ‘n’ roll, a combination of death metal and grindcore. Both genres are more aggressive than rock ‘n’ roll and incorporate guttural screams , according to El Sol de Mexico.

It was not until 2019 that the band began to become popular thanks to social media. Due to its name, a multitude of memes appeared and the band went viral for its peculiar songs such as La Usurpadora, Un lamento por Esmeralda, and others on their YouTube channel.