Eurovision 2018: 9 Other Hungarian Bands You Should Hear

9. AWS

Metalcore

FFO: Beartooth, The Devil Wears Prada.

Let's start with the band that inspired all of this.

Formed in 2006, AWS (an abbreviation of Alternative Wine Selection) are a melody-ladened metalcore quintet from Budakeszi. The troupe are three albums into their career with 2016's Kint a vízből being their latest and have travelled to the likes of Austria, England, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, and Spain.

Following their win in Hungary's Eurovision song selection competition A Dal, AWS travelled to Lisbon to represent their country at the global contest.

Their performance included more pyro than the demon baby of 4th July and Bonfire night, vocalist Siklósi Örs putting his absolute all into his vocal delivery, a stage dive from guitarist from Kökényes Dániel and the band rounding off with the Ginyu Force pose. It was both lauded and condemned by social media, identifying the divide of people that enjoy big, shouty music and those that do not.

The band have confirmed a new album is currently being written and they are continuing to put on shows in and around their homeland. In the run-up to their Eurovision performance, legendary metal festival Wacken Open Air had invited AWS to the 2018 edition of the event.