Aderta crafts atmospheric black metal from Gothenburg as of 2025. From the city that gave its name to the Gothenburg sound, they bring freshly forged atmospheric darkness from Sweden's second city.

Ades Numen fuses symphonic arrangements with black and death metal from Padua since 2017. Their name, combining the Roman god of the underworld with divine will, drives a sound that pairs orchestral grandeur with infernal extremity.

A power metal band from Liège operating under the Bandcamp handle aleslace, releasing music independently in the Walloon metal underground. Specific album details remain sparsely documented online, reflecting their status as a grassroots act within the regional heavy metal scene.

Adest thrashes from Moscow since 2012. Their Latin name meaning 'is present' or 'is here' drives over a decade of immediate, no-frills thrash aggression from the Russian capital.

Adfail channels doom, death, and gothic metal from Kaliningrad since 2014. From Russia's Baltic exclave — physically separated from the mainland by Lithuania and Poland — they craft compositions of isolated, multi-genre darkness.

Adgarios channels folk metal from Padua since 2019, drawing on the Celtic and pre-Roman heritage of the Veneto region. Their name nods to the ancient Venetic civilization that inhabited the area millennia before the city's famed university was founded.

Adge is a black metal, ambient, and dungeon synth project from the Canary Islands, Spain, formed in 2023, creating a blend of atmospheric black metal and medieval-inspired dungeon synth from the Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Africa. The project brings an unusual geographic origin to the typically northern European-dominated genres of black metal and dungeon synth.

Adhezja channels stoner and southern metal from Lublin since 2017. Their Polish name meaning 'adhesion' captures the sticky, swamp-thick quality of their Americana-influenced heaviness from eastern Poland.

Adiant are a symphonic metal band from Styria, Austria, who released their debut album Killing Dreams in November 2021 and followed it with Witches Dance in September 2024. Their sound combines orchestral arrangements with melodic death metal heaviness, drawing comparisons to continental European symphonic metal acts.