Ashen Strigon conjures black metal from Vienna as of 2026, a brand-new addition to the Austrian capital's growing extreme metal roster. Their name pairs the imagery of ash with a strigon — a vampiric creature from Slavic folklore — suggesting undead menace.

Ashen Throat channels black metal from West Sussex since 2017, their parched-vocal name evoking the raw, scorched quality of extreme black metal vocals. Their Home Counties origins lend an unexpected setting to their intense sound.

Ashenspire has become one of Scotland's most distinctive and acclaimed avant-garde metal acts since forming in Glasgow in 2015, incorporating saxophone, violin, and spoken word into a ferocious progressive black metal framework. Their debut album 'Hostile Architecture' received widespread critical praise for its politically charged examination of urban decay and inequality.

Ashes of Dagoth is a German symphonic black metal project whose 2015 album The Awakening draws its entire narrative from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, exploring the stories of the Dwemer, Kagrenac, and Dagoth Ur through six tracks of orchestrally-enriched black metal. The project represents a distinctive intersection of video game lore and extreme metal composition.

Ashes of Nowhere blends black metal with post-black metal from Udine in Friuli since 2015. Their nihilistic name — remnants of a nonexistent place — captures the existential displacement at the heart of their atmospheric compositions.

Ashes of Time creates post-black metal from Sudogda in the Vladimir Region as of 2025. Named evocatively after the remnants of chronological decay, they craft atmospheric compositions from this small Russian town.

Ashlands creates atmospheric black metal and ambient from Foligno in Umbria since 2019. Their desolate name evokes barren landscapes, which they render through vast atmospheric passages from the green heart of Italy.

Ashtar are a Basel duo formed in 2012 by Marko and Nadine Lehtinen, both veterans of the Swiss doom acts Phased and shEver, crafting a haunting hybrid of black metal, sludge, and doom built on down-tuned riffs, heavy bass, and layered, dissonant melodies. Signed to Northern Fog Records, they have released four albums — "Ilmasaari" (2015), "Kaikuja" (2020), "Wandering Through Time" (2023), and "The Return of the Frozen Souls" (2024).

Ashtavakra is a black and death metal project from Germany, formed in 2016, named after the Hindu sage whose name means 'eight bends,' suggesting a thematic interest in Eastern mysticism within the extreme metal framework. The project blends black and death metal influences into a harsh, uncompromising sound.