Hailing from Witten, Germany, A Sable Opiate deliver aggressive yet melodic black metal with a modern edge. Their 2016 debut A Passage to the Yews is a concise six-track offering released on digipack CD, featuring artwork by Max Neumann and a sound praised for its fresh take on the genre's conventions.

A Somber Funeral is an atmospheric black metal duo from Kaiserslautern, Germany, comprised of Chris R. and Alex J., drawing inspiration from the dense forests of the Palatinate region. Their 2026 album Since You Left These Shores spans over sixty minutes of blackgaze and post-black metal exploring themes of grief and lost friendship, featuring guest vocals from members of Waldgeflüster, UADA, Belore, and Vorga.

A Thousand Sufferings are a four-piece from Sint-Amands, Belgium, formed by veterans of Verloren, Vex, and other Belgian projects, who describe their mission as "combining black and doom metal to bring you the ultimate experience of discomfort and misery." Albums including Het Pact, Stilte, and Bleakness document a project committed to slow, suffocating heaviness and the emotional extremity that fusing these two subgenres can produce.

A Throat Slit channels death and black metal from Skellefteå in northern Sweden since 2024. Their viscerally violent name drives compositions of uncompromising extremity from this Norrland coastal city.

A Vintage Death crafts blackened doom and death metal from Ortona in Chieti province on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo since 2018. Their oxymoronic name pairs aged refinement with mortality, a tension their darkly atmospheric compositions explore.

Athens' A.B.L. fuse black and thrash metal into a ferocious assault of speed-driven riffing and venomous vocals. Formed in 2020, they channel the aggression of the first-wave Greek black metal scene through a modern thrash-inflected lens.

A.H.P. channels black metal and ambient from Bergen since 2012. Their abbreviated identity adds enigmatic anonymity to compositions that draw from the atmospheric traditions of Norway's western fjord city — one of black metal's most hallowed geographic origins.

A.N.A.E.L. fuses black metal, death metal, industrial metal, and melodic death metal from the southern French port of Toulon since 2021. Their four-genre fusion creates an unusually broad and ambitious sound from the Provençal underground.

A.T.O.N. channels black metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2017. Their cryptic acronymic name adds to the mystery surrounding a project that favors obscurity and atmosphere over public exposure.