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

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Premiere Enter the mysterious world of Gaahl's new band, Gaahls Wyrd with a video for the track Carving The Voices

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Premeiere Listen to Waste Of Space Orchestra's imminent, mind-melting album, Syntheosis, in full!

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Premiere Watch Oceanhoarse's new video for the epic new track, Death Row Center

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Premiere Doom-laden psychonauts 11Paranoias stream their impending new album, Asterismal, in full

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Dark-folk maverick A.A. Williams is proving ’heavy’ doesn't have to mean ‘loud’

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Exclusive Listen to Repulsion from Der Weg Einer Freiheit's forthcoming album, Live In Berlin

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Watch the frontman from Norway's black/death marauders Vredehammer hit an insane 320bpm riff speed

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The early 90s Norwegian black metal scene is an unlikely inspiration for a big-budget movie. But director Jonas Akerlund has put metal’s most infamous period on the big screen

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Premiere Listen to Yerûšelem's eerie, industrial black metal debut, The Sublime, in full

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Premiere Rotting Christ herald their imminent album The Heretics with a stunning lyric video for The Raven

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Premiere Journey to the beyond with Babel from Yerûšelem’s forthcoming album, The Sublime

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Exclusive Iceland's progressive death metallers Kaleikr unveil a stunning new track, The Descent

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How do you move from a band as pivotal as The Dillinger Escape Plan? For Liam Wilson, it meant ripping up the rulebook all over again

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Premiere Return to the decade of Rambo with Slegest's new video for the track Undergangens Tankesmed

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Premiere Listen to Aeternus's first album in five years, Heathen, in all its grim, fist-raising glory!

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Premiere Embrace the otherness and lose yourself to Mandrel Cantus from cellist Jo Quail's forthcoming album, Exsolve

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Enter the mystical realms of Latch To A Grave, from Winterfylleth's acoustic album, The Hallowing Of Heirdom

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Premiere Rampage through the wastelands to Deathhammer's claw-raising Chained To Hell album here!

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Premiere Enter the weird, wonderful and frankly terrifying world of A Forest Of Stars' imminent new album, Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

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Premiere Raise a fist and praise Satan to the title track from Lucifer's Child's new album, The Order

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Premiere Enter the Norwegian forests and lose yourself to Heim, from Orkan's new album, Element

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Premiere Listen to Indignant Slumber from Crimson Throne's forthcoming album, Of Void & Solitude

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Listen to Empty Streets from In The Woods...' forthcoming album, Cease The Day
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