Auszaat are a Salzburg-based band who describe their own genre as "blackened whatever," a self-aware tag for music that merges black metal with sludge, doom, hardcore, and post-metal. Their album Morast menschlicher Worte ("Swamp of Human Words") exemplifies their approach — claustrophobic, sinister, and deliberately hard to categorise, building a dark and immersive atmosphere through dense layering.

Autarcie channels black metal from the Franche-Comté capital of Besançon since 2013, their French word for "autarky" or self-sufficiency reflecting a fiercely independent approach. Their isolationist name suits a project that operates entirely on its own terms.

Autophagie crafts atmospheric black metal from Ryazan as of 2025. Their French spelling of 'autophagy' — the cellular self-consumption process — drives compositions of atmospheric self-dissolution from this ancient city on the Oka River.

Autophagocytosis creates depressive black metal from an undisclosed Moldovan location since 2024. Named after the cellular process of self-digestion, their sound enacts a similar dissolution — consuming itself through anguished extremity.

Autumn Aurora merges progressive death and black metal from Murmansk since 2016. From Russia's largest Arctic city, their seasonal-light name channels the brief, brilliant colors of polar autumn into compositions of technical extremity.

Autumn Laments is a one-man melancholic and atmospheric black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2019, whose releases include Elegies and the 2023 album Gone. The project delivers atmospheric black metal steeped in melancholy from the solitary creative vision of its sole member.

Autumn Nostalgie crafts post-black metal and ambient from Šamorín near Bratislava since 2020. Their seasonal-longing name drives atmospheric compositions of autumnal melancholy from the Danubian lowlands.

Autumn, Leaves, Scars channels post-black metal from Cluj-Napoca since 2014. Their poetically structured name — a sequence of seasonal images — drives atmospheric compositions from Transylvania's unofficial capital.

Autumnal Sorrow creates black metal and ambient from Carovigno in the Brindisi province of Puglia since 2017. Their seasonal-grief name drives atmospheric compositions from the olive-groved landscape of the Adriatic coast.