An experimental sludge metal band from the Vogtland region of Saxony — with members from Auerbach, Plauen, Zwickau, and Rempesgrün — A Document Says occupy a dark, dissonant corner of German heavy music. Their music combines the weight and feedback of sludge with avant-garde structural unpredictability.

A Dream of Poe creates gothic and doom metal from São Miguel in the Azores since 2006. Named after the master of macabre literature, they craft dark romanticism from the volcanic mid-Atlantic archipelago — one of the most remote origins for any European metal act.

A Dying God merges black metal with grindcore from London since 2013, creating a volatile collision of atmospheric darkness and breakneck speed. Their theological-nihilist name captures the cosmic scale of their sonic devastation.

A Forest of Dreams channels atmospheric black metal and ambient from an undisclosed Portuguese location since 2020. Their sylvan-oneiric name drives compositions that blur the boundary between nocturnal forest wandering and dream states.

A Forest of Stars invented "Steam Powered Black Metal" in Leeds in 2007, fusing Victorian aesthetics with psychedelic black metal, folk, and electronica to create something truly unique. Cited as one of the UK's leading avant-garde black metal outfits, their albums from "The Corpse of Rebirth" onward incorporate violins, flutes, and ethereal female vocals alongside the psychedelic madness influenced by Fleurety, Swans, and Pink Floyd.

Formed in Freiburg im Breisgau in 2018, A Ghost in Rags play instrumental post-metal that blends post-rock dynamics with doom heaviness, black metal riffing, and sludge undertow. Their debut album Akarano arrived in June 2022, followed by the announcement of their second full-length Solfatara for release in June 2025, both demonstrating the band's commitment to slow-unfolding, structure-defying compositions.

A Ghost Named Alice are a power and progressive metal outfit from Zell am See, Austria, blending melodic guitar work with a theatrical, driving energy. Their 2018 album It Feels Like Suicide and the 2021 follow-up A Room for My Enemies show a band navigating the tension between soaring hooks and heavier progressive textures, with the track 'Wolfchant' drawing the most attention.

A metalcore and thrash metal band from Dortmund formed in 2000, A Gift Called Anger brought together members of Frozen Illusion and Inhuman Conditions and spent years developing before recording their first demo Wounds in 2007. Their full-length The Rise, the Wounds, the Fear documents a band rooted in the NRW region's heavy underground tradition.

A Goat as Our Shepherd are a Belgian death metal band operating across the groove and melodic death metal spectrum, releasing music under the agaos Bandcamp imprint. Their sound favours heavy rhythmic riffing and dynamic mid-paced passages drawn from the American groove-death tradition, with melodic lead work that softens the edges of an otherwise punishing approach.