
Jonathan Selzer
Having freelanced regularly for the Melody Maker and Kerrang!, and edited the extreme metal monthly, Terrorizer, for seven years, Jonathan is now the overseer of all the album and live reviews in Metal Hammer. Bemoans his obsolete superpower of being invisible to Routemaster bus conductors, finds men without sideburns slightly circumspect, and thinks songs that aren’t about Satan, swords or witches are a bit silly.
Latest articles by Jonathan Selzer

10 concept albums that will challenge your concept of the concept album
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Twelve Foot Ninja frontman Kin Etik bypasses the dragons to reveal the 10 opuses you probably didn't know were concept albums

"You need to be able to stare into the abyss": Transylvania's Dordeduh make peace with their past
By Jonathan Selzer published
Romania's transcendental black metallers Dordeduh come to terms with the death of their former Negură Bunget bandmate

10 brilliant bands that broke up far too soon
By Stephen Hill, Jonathan Selzer last updated
Commemorating the metal and hardcore heroes who disbanded with so much more to give

Wardruna and Enslaved: the birth of the stunning union, Skuggsjá
By Jonathan Selzer published
Wardruna's Einar Selvik and Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson reveal the birth of their tempestuous Skuggsjá project, on its seventh anniversary

The triumphant return of Green Carnation
By Jonathan Selzer published
Norwegian prog rockers Green Carnation return with their first new album for 14 years. Leaves Of Yesteryear is a triumph not even the pandemic could derail

Metal is weirder than ever right now, and we can’t get enough of it
By Jonathan Selzer published
Imperial Triumphant, Oranssi Pazuzu, Nibiru – metal’s weird brigade are taking over

Industrial metal maniacs Red Method take aim at our age of chaos
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exclusive Watch the stunning lyric video for Red Method's new track, Slaves To The New World Disorder

Metal visionaries Kim Holm and Costin Chioreanu recreate a Lovecraftian nightmare for our times
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the psychedelically unnerving video for H.P. Lovecraft's prophetic prose poem, Nyarlathotep

Rotting Christ co-founder returns to raise Hell with Yoth Iria
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the infernally uplifting lyric video for Yoth Iria's self-titled track from their forthcoming As The Flame Withers debut

Twin Temple are the Satanic doo-wop duo metal fans have embraced
By Jonathan Selzer published
“We are using Satanism as a way to tear down the old guard,” say husband and wife duo Alexandra and Zachary James

Perry Farrell doesn’t want to make America great again. He wants to make the world great again
By Jonathan Selzer published
Jane’s Addiction frontman and alt-rock godfather Perry Farrell is on a mission to find Utopia

Industrial metallers The Amenta return to bring you the vivid stuff of nightmares
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the creepy new video for Sere Money, from The Amenta's forthcoming album, Revelator

Enslaved: “Sacred is a word people have a problem with, but we have a need for it”
By Jonathan Selzer published
Join prog metal mystics Enslaved as they duck out of the chaos of 2020 and journey into the realms of the unconscious

Black metal diabolists Endezzma kick open the doors of perception on new song Anomalious Abomination
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the new video for Anomalious Abomination from Endezzma's forthcoming album, The Archer, Fjord And The Thunder

Elemental Icelanders Katla reveal the ancient art of the curse
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the stunningly morbid new video Sálarsvefn from Katla's forthcoming album, Allt Þetta Helvítis Myrkur

Mayhem's Teloch beams down to planet synthwave
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Bergeton, aka Mayhem guitarist Teloch, streams his forthcoming synthwave album, Miami Murder, in full

Mystifier: the unholy Brazilian occultists who took metal to blasphemous new depths
By Jonathan Selzer published
While the world’s eyes were on Sepultura in the early 1990s, their countrymen Mystifier were twisting underground metal into sacrilegious new shapes

Canada's doom mystics Völur invite you to their death cult
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch the video for Inviolate Groove, from Völur's forthcoming album, Death Cult

US black metal visionaries Akhlys bring you the glorious stuff of nightmares
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Listen to the stunning track Pnigalion, from Akhlys's forthcoming album, Melinoë

Ex-In Solitude guitarist Henrik Palm returns to mess with your mind
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Watch Henrik Palm's cryptic new video for the track Given Demon from his forthcoming album, Poverty Metal

Extreme metal photographer Ester Segarra wants to realign you with the universe
By Jonathan Selzer published
Renowned metal photographer Ester Segarra launches her celestial planning calendar, Cosmoplanner

Iranian metallers Confess escape the death penalty and unleash insurrectionary new track
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exiled Iranian groove/thrash metallers Confess release a creepy new video for the track Eat What You Kill

Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: The God Of F*ck gives his demons free rein
By Jonathan Selzer published
Marilyn Manson has released his new album We Are Chaos – and here's our verdict
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