Agathodaimon are a symphonic and gothic black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since their 1996 Carpe Noctem demo, with nine releases spanning nearly three decades. From their Nuclear Blast debut Blacken the Angel through their 2022 album The Seven, they have been one of Germany's most enduring dark metal acts, blending orchestral grandeur with black metal intensity.

Ages of Night creates gothic and doom metal from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky since 2014. From the capital of the Kamchatka Peninsula — one of the most volcanically active places on Earth — they craft darkly romantic metal surrounded by fire-breathing mountains.

Formed in the industrial town of Tatabánya in 1997, Agregator fuses the melodic intensity of Swedish-style death metal with gothic metal's brooding elegance. Their sound sits at the crossroads of aggression and melancholy, a combination that has sustained them through nearly three decades in Hungary's underground.

Aither creates symphonic gothic metal from Cosenza in Calabria since 2020, named after the primordial Greek deity of light and the upper atmosphere. From southern Italy's mountainous interior, they pair orchestral elegance with gothic darkness.

Aiwaz is a gothic doom metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2017, drawing on dark, melancholic heaviness with gothic overtones. The band explores themes of shadow and mysticism within the framework of slow, crushing doom metal.

Akentra crafts gothic metal from the royal city of Dreux since 2017, channeling the ornate architecture and historical weight of the Eure-et-Loir into atmospheric, darkly romantic compositions. Their sound bridges the medieval and the modern.

Akribi explores progressive and gothic metal with rock elements from Gothenburg since 2020. Their Greek-derived name meaning 'precision' drives carefully constructed compositions from Sweden's western musical capital.

Alastis was a Swiss extreme metal band formed in Sion, Valais in 1987 under the name Fourth Reich, shifting to black metal and adopting the name Alastis — derived from Alastor, the executioner of hell — in 1989. The band evolved across their career from raw black metal toward gothic and industrial-inflected extreme metal, releasing albums including The Just Law, ...And Death Smiled (1995), and Unity (2001), drawing comparisons to fellow Swiss act Samael. They disbanded in the early 2000s after a run of five studio albums.

Albez Duz is an occult doom and heavy metal band from Berlin, active since 2006, whose catalog includes albums like Wings of Tzinacan, The Coming of Mictlan, and Enigmatic Rites. Their sound merges crushing doom heaviness with occult themes drawn from Mesoamerican and esoteric mythology, establishing them as a fixture of Berlin's underground metal scene.