Altar of Woe channels black metal from Saint Petersburg since 2020. Their sacrificial-grief name drives compositions of ritualistic sorrow from Russia's former imperial capital.

Altar ov Asteria is an all-female atmospheric and post-black metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2023, whose debut single Kataklysm showcases a sound that weaves melodic atmospherics into fierce black metal intensity. The band blends avant-garde sensibilities with post-black metal textures, establishing a distinctive voice in Dresden's metal underground.

A Belgian raw black metal project that released a series of demos in 2018–2019 before issuing Black Hearts of Misanthropic Benevolence (2020) and Dimensions of Eternal Blasphemy Ordained in Satanic Majesty (2021), as well as splits with Dakhanavar and Spider God. The project is described as dwelling in cold melancholy and unrelenting, hateful misanthropic atmosphere in the tradition of primitive second-wave black metal.

Alternate Massive Project delivers atmospheric black and death metal from Tissi, a small town near Sassari in Sardinia, since 2017. Their unwieldy name matches the expansive scope of their genre-crossing compositions from this tiny island commune.

Altertum channels black metal from Agder in southern Norway since 2024. Their German name meaning 'antiquity' brings a pan-Teutonic historical perspective to their Norwegian black metal.

Altvater is a folk and black metal project from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2018, merging the rawness of black metal with folk elements rooted in Germanic tradition. The project draws on ancestral themes suggested by its name, which translates to 'forefather' in German.

Altwald channels black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2012. Their German name meaning 'old forest' drives over a decade of sylvan black metal rooted in the primeval woodlands of the imagination.

Alvenrad plays folk, black, and heavy metal from the Veluwe region of Gelderland since 2014, their Dutch name meaning 'elf council' connecting to northern European fairy lore. From one of the Netherlands' last remaining wild landscapes, they blend folk tradition with multiple metal styles.

Alverg practices black metal from Grimstad in Agder since 2018, the hometown of Ibsen and historically associated with the early Norwegian black metal scene. Their name, evoking the realm of elves in Norse cosmology, roots their sound in the pagan mythology of southern Norway.