If you happened to watch a little show called The Eurovision Song Contest you will know that many different musical acts perform from around Europe (and a select few other countries). Multiple countries then choose their favourite acts and distribute points accordingly, thus by the end of the night a country is announced the winner. The prize for winning? Hosting the following years event.

Coming in at a whopping 21st (out of 26) was the country Hungary and their act AWS with Viszlát Nyár (Goodbye Summer). If you’re wondering we (The UK) came in at a solid 24th place. Now AWS didn’t follow the usual trend of other performances that night. In amongst the slow ballads and the pop AWS decided it was about time Eurovision embraced something a little different, see for yourself below:

Amongst the almost constant pyrotechnics the band provided audiences with a self written single inspired by the death of the vocalists father. This high energy act featured various unclean vocals, a stage dive and even a breakdown. Although a nice surprise within this years edition of Eurovision contestants it wouldn’t be the first time metal acts have made it into the final. In 2006 Finland actually won the competition with a metal song by the band Lordi and with a stage presence reminiscent of GWAR. Who knows, maybe metal can become more accepted by the mainstream media eventually, although with Graham Norton expressing his relief to it being over I highly doubt it’ll be soon!