Aeonyzhar are an epic black metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2008, who fuse brutal riffs and blast beats with monumental orchestral and choral passages. Their approach reinterprets the atmosphere of nineties symphonic black metal through a modern lens, with releases like The Profane Era and Liberation showcasing their ambition to merge extremity with orchestral grandeur.

AeoS are a progressive metal band from Wiesbaden, Germany, whose five-piece lineup delivers ambitious concept albums blending prog-metal with death metal and djent influences. Their 2016 album Memories of a Dead Man, eight years in the making, follows a condemned man's introspective journey inspired by Memento and Hamlet, showcasing the band's cinematic approach to heavy music.

Aephanemer is a French melodic death metal band formed in Toulouse in 2013, blending Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with symphonic orchestration and lyrics in both French and English. The band released their debut Memento mori in 2016 and signed to Napalm Records for subsequent albums including Prokopton (2019), A Dream of Wilderness (2021), and Utopie. Their sound draws on the classical and cinematic traditions of symphonic metal while maintaining the rhythmic directness of the melodic death metal genre.

Aequinoctium Sanguinis blends black metal with symphonic grandeur from Bordeaux since 2015, their Latin name meaning "equinox of blood" evoking ancient rituals at the turning of seasons. Their sound carries the ceremonial weight that their elaborate name promises.

Aequiternus creates doom and death metal from Yekaterinburg since 2008. Their Latin name meaning 'equally eternal' drives nearly two decades of patient, crushing compositions from the Ural Mountains' largest city.

Aeraxyz blends black metal with ambient from Nesluša in the Kysuce region since 2023. Their futuristic-sounding name brings sci-fi mystique to compositions from this rural northwestern Slovak village.

A solo black metal project by Wemmel-based musician François Breulet, formed in 2020, that draws on Flemish folklore and early Scandinavian black metal in the tradition of other Belgian solo acts like Oerheks and Zwarte Dood. Their debut album Met de Drietand op mijn Huid (2022) is distinguished by an unusually prominent bass presence, followed by the atmospheric sophomore record Onzuiver (2026).

Aerecuga creates melodic death and doom metal from Zwolle in Overijssel since 2020. Their enigmatic name drives compositions that pair the melodic elegance of Scandinavian death metal with the ponderous weight of doom from the Hanseatic city.

A one-man melodic death metal project founded in early 2011 by guitarist and composer Karim Kerdoudi, drawing inspiration from Scandinavian melodic death metal. The project has released two full-lengths, Sweet Moment in Fifth Season (2013) and Alta alatis patent (2014), both self-produced and available through Bandcamp.