Budapest's A Losing Season blend melodic death metal with progressive sensibilities, crafting emotionally charged compositions that balance aggression with melodic depth. Since 2008, they've been a respected presence in Hungary's melodeath scene.

A Mind Confused delivers melodic death metal from Haninge in the Stockholm metropolitan area since 1997. Nearly three decades from this southern Stockholm suburb, they have maintained one of Sweden's most enduring melodic death metal legacies.

A Mind Traveller delivers technical deathcore from Veliky Novgorod since 2017. From one of Russia's oldest cities — the ancient capital of the Novgorod Republic — they bring psychological exploration to modern extreme metal.

A Nail Through the Urethra delivers slam and brutal death metal from the Puglia region, operating between Bari and Brindisi since 2017. Their deliberately provocative name signals the confrontational extremity of their guttural, groove-laden brutality.

A New Dawn blends melodic death, gothic, and heavy metal from Rotterdam since 2012, their optimistic name promising renewal through the interplay of multiple metal styles. Over a decade in the Netherlands' second city, they have crafted a distinctively Dutch brand of melodic metal.

A Night in the Abyss merges death metal, deathcore, symphonic metal, and technical death metal from Brighton since 2015, creating an ambitiously broad sound from the seaside city. Their four-genre fusion produces compositions of remarkable scope and intensity.

A Place for Murder has practiced death metal from Bologna — Italy's culinary and cultural crossroads — since 2011. Their noir-tinged name contrasts with Bologna's warmth, bringing a cold, methodical violence to the Emilia-Romagna underground.

A deathcore band from Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia, A Plumbers Nightmare were founded in 2007 and built a festival presence over their active years. Their releases include the Demo(n) tape (2008), the Bloodwinger EP (2010), and the Medea EP (2012), delivering the genre's signature low-tuned brutality with a six-piece lineup.

A Berlin-based power/death metal band active from 2010 to 2015, A Pocket Sized Sun took their name from a Tiamat song and applied it to music that deliberately avoided conventional song structures in favor of melodic development and variation. Their sole release, the Fallout EP, mixed melodic death metal riffing with power metal sensibility and was mixed and mastered at Winter Solitude Studios.