Autumnblaze is a German melancholic metal band from Illingen, formed in 1996 by Markus B. on vocals, guitars, bass, and songwriting alongside Arisjel on drums. The band has transformed their style with each new record across albums like DammerElbenTragodie, Welkin Shores Burning, Every Sun Is Fragile, Perdition Diaries, and the upcoming ninth album Glut, always bearing deep melancholy as a unifying thread through their evolving sound.

Ava Inferi crafted gothic and doom metal from Almada since 2006, featuring vocalist Carmen Simões and members connected to Moonspell. Their Latin name meaning 'hail the infernal ones' guided compositions of dark beauty that helped define Portugal's gothic metal identity.

Avalinity creates gothic metal from Lund in Skåne since 2013. From one of Scandinavia's oldest university cities, they bring academic elegance to over a decade of darkly romantic compositions.

AvatariA is a gothic metal band with black metal influences from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012, whose prolific catalog includes The Matrix Falls, Eneagramm, New World Order, The Last Falling, Apocalyptic, Memoirs of Humanity, and the 2025 release Downfall. The band blends gothic metal's dark atmospherics with death and black metal aggression across consistently released albums.

Azylya is a gothic metal band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2009 and signed to WormHoleDeath Records. The band pairs the clean female vocals of singer Jamie-Lee with keyboard-driven melodic metal and thrash-influenced riffing, crafting a sound the band describes as a contrast between hope and darkness.