Almost Human is a death metal band from Herten, Germany, formed in 2012, delivering the genre's hallmark brutality and technical aggression. The band contributes to the Ruhr area's deep well of extreme metal talent with their punishing approach to death metal.

Alone in the Dark crafts doom and death metal from Báhoň near Bratislava since 2012. Their horror-game-referencing name drives over a decade of compositions that explore solitary dread from this small western Slovak town.

Aloys Fudanshi has evolved from blackened death metal into avant-garde and death metal territory from Turku since 2021. Their Japanese-inflected name — fudanshi being a male fan of boys' love manga — signals an unconventional creative vision from the Finnish southwest.

Alpha Zero explores progressive death metal from Warsaw since 2020. Their mathematical name — the point where a function first touches zero — drives compositions of calculated precision from the Polish capital.

Alphayn are a Viennese folk and melodic death metal band who blend pagan and Viking metal influences with Scandinavian-style melodic extremity, singing in German and engaging with Germanic mythology. Their albums Heimkehr (2014) and Wanderschaft (2018) — with titles translating as 'Homecoming' and 'Journey' — frame their music as a meditation on heritage, wandering, and return.

Altar of Betelgeuze is a Helsinki doom outfit that blurs the lines between stoner rock, traditional doom, and death metal, earning acclaim with releases on Transcending Obscurity Records. Their 2024 album "Echoes" continues a tradition established in the mid-2010s of crafting space-themed doom that is as cosmically vast as the red supergiant star they're named after.

Altar of Despair channels death metal and deathcore from Espoo since 2025, representing the newest wave of extreme music in Finland's second-largest city. Their sacrificial name signals a project devoted to the darkest expressions of modern heaviness.

Altar of I are a melodic death metal band from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee who layer progressive and metalcore influences over their death metal foundation. Their 2023 album Human Resources is their most widely heard record, with tracks like 'Identity' and 'Kingdom of Doom' reflecting a band developing a more polished and expansive take on the genre.

Altar of Obedience creates death metal from Stockholm since 2022. Their devotional-submission name drives compositions of ritualistic brutality from the Swedish capital.