Angus Black conjures doom and stoner metal from Helsinki since 2017, blending crushing heaviness with the hazy grooves of psychedelic rock. Their sound navigates the murky intersection of Finland's doom metal heritage and stoner rock's cosmic wanderings.

Angélida blends symphonic, gothic, and power metal from Zaragoza with female-fronted vocals and intricate guitar solos woven through every track. Across three albums including "Decanimae," "La Ciudad de los Pájaros," and "La Liga Onírica," they've built a lush, genre-spanning sound rooted in Aragonese creativity.

Angústia are a black metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, formed in 2002, whose lyrical stance is explicitly anti-Nazi and anti-fascist — an ideological position unusual within the often apolitical Swiss underground. The band's status has since become uncertain, leaving them as a document of politicized Swiss second-wave black metal.

Anhedonia Nocturne creates depressive black metal from Kyiv since 2024. Named after the inability to feel pleasure combined with darkness, they craft compositions of nocturnal emotional numbness from the Ukrainian capital.

Anhedonia Schizophrenica Nevrosa channels black metal, death metal, deathcore, and depressive black metal from Paris since 2022. Their clinical-psychiatric name, spanning three disorders, signals a project deeply immersed in the psychology of suffering.

Anhedoniac is a German atmospheric black metal project whose 2022 debut album Colossus, released through Entropy and Heresy Productions, delivers four tracks of black metal recorded in 2021 with Audio Non Verba handling production. The album's compositions range from five to eight minutes, building an atmosphere of bleakness through tracks like Harbinger and The Dissolution.

Anheim is a five-piece black metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, featuring Andergrout on vocals, Bleklys and Nefaros on guitars, Raspad on bass, and Narhammer on drums. Their catalog spans from the 2021 debut Maere einer alten Zeit through Anihorim to the 2025 release Die Welt Die Wir Begruben, blending haunting melodies and intense riffs with epic narrative themes.

Anholt practices black metal from Omsk in western Siberia since 2014. Named after a Danish island, their Scandinavian reference adds a North Sea dimension to their decade of Siberian black metal.

Anic has been delivering heavy metal from Glasgow since 2011, contributing to Scotland's largest city's sustained metal scene for over a decade. Their straightforward approach channels the working-class energy of Clydeside.