Fili Bibiano's Fortress
Biographie Fili Bibiano's Fortress
Fili Bibiano's Fortress
are a traditional heavy metal band, formed in Whittier, California in 2016. After an initial EP, they issued their debut album “Don’t Spare The Wicked” on High Roller Records in 2021. To differentiate between all those bands bearing the same name, it was decided to use the moniker FILI BIBIANO’S FORTRESS from now on, relating to the band’s founding member (who is also playing with Intranced).
They started around early 2016 after lead guitarist Fili Bibiano's old band Auxilery had disbanded. He explains: “I wanted to start a band that was personal to me and I had my own vision of the music I wanted to play. I asked Chris Nunez to join my band on vocals as he was very close friends with my older brother Aldo Bibiano (ex-Exmortus). Chris was very reserved at first but when I heard him do the high vocals on 'Victim Of Changes' by Judas Priest I knew he was the right guy for the job. After that I had a couple of drummers jam with us but the schedules were clashing a lot. Finally, my former guitarist from Auxilery, Eddie Bravo, introduced me to Rob Duran, our current drummer. He is a great drummer and has the passion of the music inside him. Along with Robert came my former guitarist Eddie Bravo, he started jamming with us and helped write the EP and became part of the band. When we played our first shows we needed a bass player, so we enlisted our close friend Andrew Gonzalez, guitarist of Witchaven. After a while of playing and Andrew's schedule getting more and more busy, we decided to find another bass player. Our current bass player is Uli Serrano. Much like our drummer he is very passionate about the music and they make a great team. Later on, our guitarist Eddie Bravo was unable to continue in the band due to personal reasons and we went on to record the Fortress EP with our current line up consisting of Chris Nunez (vocals), Fili Bibiano (guitar), Uli Serrano (bass) and Rob Duran (drums).
