Adgarios channels folk metal from Padua since 2019, drawing on the Celtic and pre-Roman heritage of the Veneto region. Their name nods to the ancient Venetic civilization that inhabited the area millennia before the city's famed university was founded.

Aedy plays Celtic folk metal from Aosta, the Alpine valley town at the foot of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, since 2013. Their location in Italy's smallest and most mountainous region provides a natural connection to the Celtic heritage they channel through their music.

Aegonia is an atmospheric metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, founded in 2011 around a companion series of original fantasy novels. The band draws heavily from Bulgarian folklore — including themes of the mythological forest spirit Samodiva — and released the full-length "The Forgotten Song" (2019) and the EP "Moonlight Tales" (2022), blending heavy metal instrumentation with acoustic classical elements.

Athens' Aeklypsis blend death metal, folk metal, and progressive elements into an ambitious, multi-faceted sound that defies easy categorisation. Since 2017, they've crafted compositions that draw from Greek musical traditions while pushing into extreme and progressive territory.

Aereum weaves melodic folk metal from Duisburg in the Ruhr industrial heartland since 2020. Their Latin name meaning 'of bronze' or 'airy' brings an ancient quality to folk-metal compositions from Germany's largest inland port city.

Aethernaeum is a folk black metal project from Berlin, Germany, creating naturalistic music in the vein of Agalloch, Dornenreich, and Moonsorrow. With releases including Wanderungen durch den Daemmerwald and Naturmystik, the project weaves pagan folk elements into atmospheric black metal, and as of 2025 is working on a comeback album.

Afargang channels progressive folk metal from an undisclosed Norwegian location since 2022. Their Old Norse-derived name, suggesting a departing journey, guides compositions that blend folk instrumentation with progressive complexity.

AfterGod weaves symphonic folk metal from Rimini since 2013, exploring what comes after divinity through compositions that blend orchestral sweep with folk-tinged melodies. From this Adriatic resort city, they craft a distinctly Italian brand of folk-influenced metal.

Against the Seasons blends atmospheric folk, doom, and post-metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2024. Their name suggests defiance of nature's cyclical rhythms, which their multi-genre approach mirrors through compositions that refuse seasonal predictability.