In 2024, FUET! had eight monthly Spotify listeners. The same year, the Madrid band were picked as one of six acts out of 1,600 applicants to play Mad Cool, one of Spain’s biggest international crossover festivals. Their set clashed with Avril Lavigne. The tent filled past 800 people with a line still waiting outside. Major Spanish outlets named the set one of the festival’s highlights.
“It felt like destiny was constantly shouting at us, ‘Come on, just do it,'” the band say.
The FUET! story has a few starting points before that one. A three-track EP made for fun during the pandemic and then left online to gather dust for three years. A first concert in 2023 organised by a promoter who liked those tracks and decided to put the band on a stage anyway. None of it was supposed to lead anywhere. The Mad Cool set is the moment the band themselves count as the real beginning, the point where they stopped being a band that didn’t want to be a band.
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From there they spent a year recording their debut album “Make It Happen” across various sessions, documenting their experiences in real time. The record came out in 2025, self-released, with all singles and music videos directed by the band themselves.
Critics in Spain and abroad named it one of the year’s best releases, and it earned the band spots on top international editorial playlists for punk and alternative metal. Some details from the recording stayed in the album in literal form. The closing sound on “Caramel” is a glitched-out apartment buzzer the band found on tour and captured on their phones while laughing about it.
They played Tsunami Gijón, opening the main stage hours before Refused and the Sex Pistols. Every show outside their hometown sold out, something none of them had experienced with any other band before. The audience widened past the usual hardcore crowd into people of all ages and backgrounds. FUET! had stopped being a project and turned into a working band.
Then came the question of what to do in 2026.
Their next album is scheduled for 2027. Earlier this year, while finishing songs for that record, the band were hit with a worry about the year in between. They describe it as looking into an abyss, seeing 2026 as a limbo with no releases at exactly the moment they needed to keep their presence active. So they pulled an earlier demo out of the drawer and built a single around it.
That demo became “Roll With It“, out now on all digital platforms via Estudio Mazmorra under exclusive licence to FUET!. The track runs just over two and a half minutes. Hardcore punk pulled toward alternative metal, aggressive guitars throughout, no let-up in the rhythm section. The band pitch it as direct and uncompromising, built to translate the energy of their live shows onto a record. Lyrically it sits on the line between rebellion and self-acknowledgement, throwing back against a system that, in the song’s own line, urges us to “get up, consume, produce, and die”.
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“‘Roll With It’ is more than just a call to rebellion; it’s an invitation to reflect on whether the way we live our lives aligns with who we truly are or just with what society expects of us,” the band say. “We want it to be an anthem for those who refuse to just go with the flow and are no longer afraid of not fitting into pre-established molds.”
The release also addresses a fair criticism the band themselves heard about “Make It Happen“. For fans who’d followed FUET! since early 2024, the album offered little that was actually new. It had been born live, single by single, the way newer bands often grow into themselves. With the record now in the past and the band settled enough in the scene to think differently about a release cycle, they wanted 2026 to have its own thing.
“It’s a parallel game to the composition of the future album; an appetizer for the fans and for ourselves, to keep FUET! on the table without interruption and keep everyone hungry for more,” the band say. They describe “Roll With It” as a song about embracing your own identity, which for them came down to looking in the mirror, listening to their own needs, and refusing to choose between an album cycle and standalone singles. “It’s a whim, it’s a game. We felt like doing it, so why not?”
The accompanying video was directed by Pace&Baltasar. Lead vocalist Rubén arrives at OVNI Estudio, the studio set in an Asturian meadow where the song was recorded, and joins the rest of the band on screen through fast-paced editing that blends him into the group across a multi-format mix of analogue video, digital video, and cinematic shots.
So, why not. Roll with it.
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