Admonish channels melodic black metal from Stockholm since 2018. Their warning-based name drives compositions of reproachful intensity from the Swedish capital.

Adoniram channels atmospheric black metal and ambient from Izhevsk in Udmurtia as of 2025. Named after the Masonic legendary figure, they bring esoteric-fraternal mysticism to their Ural-born atmospheric approach.

Adonis DNA are a black metal and ambient project from Prague, Czech Republic, whose music incorporates doom and psychedelic elements alongside more conventional black metal textures. Their album "Until Age Eleven She Knew Nothing of Christ," released in March 2015, exemplifies the band's willingness to operate outside the orthodoxies of the Czech underground black metal scene.

Adoperta Tenebris channels black metal from Nantes since 2017, their Latin name meaning "covered in darkness" perfectly describing the cloak of obscurity that envelops their sound. The project contributes to the Loire-Atlantique capital's robust extreme metal scene.

Adorior has been fusing black and death metal from London since 1998, making them one of the English capital's longest-running extreme metal acts. Over a quarter century of activity speaks to remarkable endurance within the UK underground.

Adragard channels black metal from Paganica, a town near L'Aquila in Abruzzo that was devastated by the 2009 earthquake, since 2018. Their music carries the weight of that trauma through compositions steeped in destruction and desolation.

Adraste merges black metal with pagan themes from the Lille and Arras area since 2017, drawing from the pre-Christian traditions of northern France. Named after a Celtic war goddess, their sound carries the martial spirit of their Gallic namesake.

Adrianachrome creates depressive and post-black metal from Novokuznetsk in Kemerovo Oblast since 2024. Their pharmacological name — evoking the oxidized form of adrenaline — drives compositions of neurochemical despair from the Kuznetsk Basin.

A black metal project from the Kempen region of Antwerp formed in 2007, centered entirely on what the band calls Ophidian Adversarialism — an occult Left Hand Path philosophy tied to serpent-current traditions. Their two releases, Searing Fires and Lucid Visions (2011) and Drakon Sovereign Supreme (2017) on World Terror Committee, are dense, ritualistic offerings recorded at Blackout Studio in Belgium.