Among the Accursed is a metalcore band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2022, whose rapid output includes the 2022 releases Beneath My Skin and Low Spirits followed by the eleven-track 2024 album Protagonist Syndrome. The band plays modern metalcore with aggressive instrumentation and a polished approach to the genre's heavy and melodic dynamics.

Among the Lights creates post-black metal with shoegaze elements from an undisclosed Polish location since 2023. Their luminous name guides compositions that bathe black metal's darkness in shimmering, ethereal light.

Metal band from Fribourg, Switzerland, with roots going back over five studio albums and 300-plus concerts before a 2019 rebranding toward a darker, more haunting sound. Their 2022 EP "Follow Blindly," produced by Vladimir Cochet at Conatus Studios, draws on death metal and hardcore influences to address themes of blind obedience and societal complicity.

Melodic death metal band formed in Novopolotsk, Belarus in 2014, later relocating to Gdańsk, Poland in 2022. Their sound pairs heavy, riff-driven instrumentation and melodic guitar solos with prominent female vocals, and their albums include "Flight to Immortality," "Your Choice," and "Before the Dawn."

Athens' AmongRuins forge melodic death metal with emotional depth and technical proficiency, balancing Scandinavian-influenced harmonies with Mediterranean passion. Since 2015, they've developed a sound that stands among the best of Greece's melodeath scene.

Amorak channels black metal from Guimarães — the birthplace of Portugal — since 2012. From the city where the Portuguese nation was founded in the 12th century, they practice black metal rooted in the country's deepest historical identity.

Originally formed in 1997, Helsinki's Amoral evolved from progressive death metal into increasingly melodic territory across seven studio albums before their farewell show at Tavastia Club in 2017. Their 2024 reunion signals new life for a band that helped define Finland's progressive metal scene.

Amorbital delivers death metal from Humenné in eastern Slovakia since 1991. Over three decades from this Laborec River town near the Polish and Ukrainian borders, they have maintained one of Slovakia's oldest death metal legacies.

Amorcus is a medieval black metal duo from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, featuring Feliciano 'Sylius' C.G. on vocals and programming and Angeus 'Rattet' Wolf on guitars. Their release Medieval Supremacy fuses raw nineties black metal with lo-fi dungeon synth, creating an atmospheric blend of medieval themes and extreme metal aggression.

Amorgen merges melodic death metal with folk elements from Dordrecht since 2011. Named after the mythological Celtic poet-warrior, they bring Gaelic resonance to their South Holland compositions over more than a decade of activity.

From the small Komárom-Esztergom town of Ács, Amorite has unleashed death metal since 2015. Named after the ancient Mesopotamian people, they bring an unexpected pocket of brutality to rural western Hungary.

Amorph is a death metal band from Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany, active since 2004, working within the brutal and unrelenting framework of the genre in the East Westphalian underground. The band has maintained a steady presence in the German death metal scene over two decades of activity.

Amorphead combines death and thrash metal from Catanzaro, the capital of Calabria perched on a narrow isthmus between two seas, since 2011. Their shapeless name captures the fluid aggression of their dual-genre approach from deep southern Italy.

Amorphia merges death and black metal from Zaporizhia since 2018. Their formless name drives compositions that dissolve fixed structures through the combined acid of two extreme genres.

One of Finland's most iconic metal bands, Amorphis has evolved from death-doom pioneers on "The Karelian Isthmus" to progressive metal masters drawing from the Kalevala epic. Their 2025 album "Borderland" debuted at number one in Finland and was hailed as one of the year's best prog-metal releases, cementing three decades of creative evolution.