Bristol's Aventail forge melodic death metal infused with folk metal grandeur, blending dual-guitar harmonies with medieval-tinged melodies and battle-ready intensity. Formed in 2022, their sound evokes the spirit of Viking-era Amon Amarth filtered through a distinctly British sensibility.

Averblack is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Troisdorf near Bonn, Germany, formed in 2016, whose releases include Torn Between Two Hells, The Downfall Show, and Gaslighting Asylum. The band's thematically dark album titles reflect a sound that balances melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with metalcore's aggressive edge.

Avet merges black and death metal from Ruma in Srem since 2010. Their Serbian name meaning 'ghost' or 'phantom' drives over fifteen years of spectral extremity from this Vojvodina town.

Velika Gorica's Avicularia were Croatian avant-garde death metal innovators who fused the dissonance of Immolation with jagged, technical compositions on their acclaimed debut 'Born to Be Vile.' Active from 2003 to 2017, they stood out in the Croatian metal scene for their willingness to push extreme metal into unconventional territory.

Avion is a melodic death metal band from Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2018, combining Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal's harmonic guitar work with the genre's aggressive foundation. The band operates from the spa town in the Nahe valley.

Avlivad creates death metal from Gothenburg since 2017. Their Swedish name meaning 'euthanized' drives compositions of clinical termination from the city that gave birth to melodic death metal.

Avoidance channels melodic death metal from an undisclosed Hungarian location, having formed in 2022. Their name suggests withdrawal, but their Scandinavian-influenced guitar harmonies and aggressive vocals are anything but retreating.

Avoimen Haudan Löyhkä, meaning "the stench of an open grave" in Finnish, has been delivering death metal from Turku since 2007. Their unflinchingly descriptive name leaves no doubt about the putrid, old-school death metal they specialize in.

Avowal is a progressive black and death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2019, whose 2020 EP Transformation delivers three tracks of intensely dissonant metal described as stankface-inducing ugliness. The band is equally known for their handcrafted physical releases, including custom USB boxes containing hourglasses filled with dried blood, released through Total Dissonance Worship.