MS Awards 2022 - Staff Picks!!

The final event of the MSA season is here: the staff picks, the winners of each category chosen by the collective staff members of Metal Storm. You will not find a more correct summation of 2022 in metal, save for the personal ratings of your editor-in-chief. As with the public awards, the staff-picking process saw a few obvious winners ride in on a landslide, but a fair few of these went to tie-breaks in overtime; we, too, have our fierce competitions behind the scenes, and there was a lot of great stuff to choose from, as always.
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E-an-na - Alveolar Release Party, Bucharest, Romania, 16.03.2023

The release of E-an-na's new album is something that was quite anticipated, even if, at this point, Alveolar feels like a compilation considering how many of the tracks were made available in advance. I mean, just look at how many news I had to add of each newly released song, and I even missed a couple of them. But even so, it was exciting to see E-an-na continue with their own brand of folk metal after two detour EPs. A detour that was quite wild for E-an-na, complete with trying to qualify for Eurovision, winning the popular vote but being dismissed by the juries, getting banned from venues for detouring from rock music with taboo music genres. By that I mean the Balkan folk/pop inspired EP, not the tango one that no one but me and SSUS talk about. You can hear more about it in my interview with the band.
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