Arkveid blends atmospheric black, doom, and folk metal from Perm in the western Urals since 2014. Their genre-spanning approach draws from the deep forests and ancient traditions of the Kama River region.

Thessaloniki's Around the Fire craft a warm, earthy blend of doom, folk, and stoner metal that evokes communal gathering and ancient ritual. Since 2019, they've created music designed for shared experience, built on heavy grooves and folk-tinged melodies.

Arrant Saudade crafts funeral doom from London since 2015, their name combining "utter" with the Portuguese concept of profound longing. Over a decade of glacially-paced compositions place them among the UK's most emotionally devastating doom acts.

Arropiero takes its name from Spain's most prolific serial killer, and the Barcelona-based duo has been delivering suffocating doom and sludge metal since 2016. Their sound is as heavy and oppressive as the dark true-crime legacy their name evokes.

Arsen delivers sludge and doom metal from Stuttgart since 2020, named after the element arsenic — a slow poison that mirrors the gradual, crushing toxicity of their Swabian sound. The Baden-Württemberg capital's automotive industry provides an unlikely backdrop for their deliberately paced heaviness.

Arsenicum channels doom metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2016. Named after the Latin word for arsenic, their poisonous approach to doom favors slow-acting, cumulative devastation.

Death/doom and melodic death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, blending the oppressive weight of doom-tinged death metal with melodic guitar work. Active in the Belarusian underground, they operate in the darker, more atmospheric end of the melodic death metal spectrum.

Artifice crafts doom metal from the southwest London suburb of Surbiton since 2015, their name evoking skillful construction and deception. Over a decade of heavy, carefully crafted compositions reflect deep commitment to the genre.

Arvest creates death and doom metal from Tula since 2007. Nearly two decades from this armaments-industry city south of Moscow, they have forged a substantial body of dual-genre extremity.