Ahí Náahaí is an atmospheric black metal project from Cameron, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. The project's name and EP title "Niséyá (I Went And Have Returned)" are in the Navajo language, making this one of the only Indigenous-language black metal projects in the United States. Their 2025 full-length "Astral Lights In A Cosmic Burial" deepens the project's unique cultural perspective.

Ails is a black metal band from Oakland, California featuring former members of Ludicra, one of the Bay Area's most celebrated black metal acts. Their 2018 EP "The Unraveling" carries forward the atmospheric, emotionally complex black metal that defined their prior band.

Airs is a project from San Francisco that began as black metal/shoegaze before evolving into post-rock, shoegaze, and experimental territory. With five releases between 2013 and 2015 — including the full-length "Adore" — the project represents the genre-fluid experimentation that defines the Bay Area music scene.

Self-styled "Blackened Crowleyan Doom" — psychedelic blues and crushing doom filtered through the occult lens of Aleister Crowley.

Whittier, California black metal project named after the Zoroastrian demon of evil intent. Ancient Persian darkness from the LA suburbs.

Akashah is a black metal band from Washington, Illinois. With three releases between 2013 and 2017, the project channels Celtic and pagan themes — evident in the Irish-language album title "Eagna an Marbh" (Wisdom of the Dead) — through raw black metal.

Akatharsia is a black metal band from Oakland, California. Named after the Greek word for 'impurity,' the band released a 2014 demo and 2017 full-length "No Generation Without Corruption," contributing to the East Bay's rich tradition of ideologically charged black metal.

Black metal project of unknown origin named after the neurological condition of restless agitation. Uncomfortable extremity.

Akhenaten is a black/death metal band from Manitou Springs, Colorado that incorporates Middle Eastern folk music into their extreme metal foundation. Named after the heretic Egyptian pharaoh, the band's two full-lengths — "Incantations Through The Gates of Irkalla" and "The Emerald Tablets of Thoth" — draw from ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mysticism, creating a genuinely unique fusion of cultures and sounds.