
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

Avant-extreme metallers Voices get ready to party in purgatory
By Jonathan Selzer published
London's avant-extreme metallers Voices livestream their deviant death/black head trip this Sunday

This Is Endless are taking death metal into a terrifying new future
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive UK death metallers This Is Endless unveil a retina-rattling video from their debut album, Formation Of A World Below

Oranssi Pazuzu: the psychedelic shamen taking black metal into other dimensions
By Jonathan Selzer published
No one is making psychedelic black metal like interdimensional warriors Oranssi Pazuzu

Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell: “If the Messiah were to return, what a load of shit he would step into”
By Jonathan Selzer published
God, drugs and interactions with the spirit world – inside the mind of Jane’s Addiction singer and alt-rock godfather Perry Farrell

Nothing says emotional devastation like A.A. Williams’ new song Love And Pain
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive A.A. Williams' has released a new song Love And Pain from forthcoming album Forever Blue, and it's brilliant

Trees Of Eternity's Aleah Starbridge is remembered through a gorgeous new lyric video
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exclusive Redraw your emotional maps to Inverted Enlightment, taken from Aleah's posthumous double album

Vesperith: the unearthly visionary taking black metal into cosmic realms
By Jonathan Selzer published
Vesperith’s Sariina Tani is on a mission to reconnect humanity to the beautiful things in life via celestial black metal

UK death metal deviants Cryptic Shift enter an unhinged new universe
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Listen to Cryptic Shift's imminent, mind-melting new album, Visitations From Enceladus in full

Enigmatic synth duo LOAD offer a soundtrack for our urban isolation
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Listen to LOAD’s evocative debut album, SuperEgo

Rise of the machines: how industrial music took over the world
By Jonathan Selzer published
From Throbbing Gristle to Ministry, this is the story of how industrial music took on the world

Mutoid metallers Red Method unleash a striking new video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Red Method force you to lose your shit and more to their new video, Ideology Of The Sick

Wardruna's Lindy-Fay Hella releases a stunning new solo video
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Lose your bearings to Two Suns, from Lindy-Fay Hella's debut album, Seafarer

Schammasch: Aleister Crowley and the destructive yet divine nature of creation
By Jonathan Selzer published
To find a future for his black metal project, Schammasch, C.S.R. had to tear down his past. What he found gave him the spirit to carve a whole new path in the form of latest album Hearts Of No Light

An extreme metal guide to Valentine's Day
By Jonathan Selzer published
Declare your love to the lord of the underworld this Valentine's Day

Norwegian retro rockers Magick Touch unveil a joyful new video for To The Limit
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exclusive Rock your socks off with To The Limit from Magick Touch's forthcoming album, Heads Have Got To Rock'N'Roll

Avant black/doom psychonauts Lychgate unveil a mind-melting new track
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exclusive Listen to Progeny Of The Singularity from Lychgate's forthcoming EP, Also Sprach Futura

Hellhammer-backed black-metallers T.O.M.B. unleash a blistering new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Batter your brain to No Return, taken from T.O.M.B.'s forthcoming album, Thin The Veil

Norwegian death/black dynamos Vredehammer unleash a face-ripping new single
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Get an exclusive preview of Vredehammer's scorching new single, Winds Of Dysphoria, right here!

Black Metal: The Bluffer's Guide
By Jonathan Selzer published
Seven bands that spread the word of Satan!

Akercocke headline a new year's orgy of extremity in London!
By Jonathan Selzer published
Usher in the Devil's Annus at the Boston Music Room with Akercocke, Lychgate and Dawn Ray'd

Lebanese metallers Blaakyum rise up against oppression
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Beirut thrashers Blaakyum reveal a revolution-themed video for the track Destined To Rise

Gaahl: The evolution of a black metal icon
By Jonathan Selzer published
He made a career helping to define black metal across two decades with the likes of Trelldom and Gorgoroth. So what made him leave the subgenre behind for his new venture?

Extreme metal pioneers gather for night of blackened brutality
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Underground legends Blasphemy, Vulcano and Adorior unite in London this Saturday

Exclusive: listen to the new album from frostbitten Australian metallers King
By Jonathan Selzer last updated
Exclusive Melodic black/death metallers King stream their new album Coldest Of Cold in full!

50 years, 50 tracks: the Ultimate Heavy Metal Playlist
By Geoff Barton, Malcolm Dome, Lee Dorrian, Ian Fortnam, Paul Henderson, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Scott Rowley, Jonathan Selzer, Henry Yates, Fraser Lewry last updated
As humanity celebrates 50 years of heavy metal, here’s half a century’s worth of pioneering heavy music, from the classics to the contemporary hard-hitters
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