
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

Blut Aus Nord members chart an hallucinatory new voyage with Yerûšelem
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Yerûšelem's eerie, industrial black metal debut, The Sublime, in full

Greek metal titans Rotting Christ prepare to ruffle some feathers
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Rotting Christ herald their imminent album The Heretics with a stunning lyric video for The Raven

Blut Aus Nord members return with a new, mind-melting vision
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Journey to the beyond with Babel from Yerûšelem’s forthcoming album, The Sublime

Lose your mind to Iceland's latest extreme metal masters, Kaleikr
By Jonathan Selzer published
Exclusive Iceland's progressive death metallers Kaleikr unveil a stunning new track, The Descent

New Band Of The Week: Azusa
By Jonathan Selzer published
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

Norway's black'n'rollers Slegest get their 80s groove on
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Return to the decade of Rambo with Slegest's new video for the track Undergangens Tankesmed

Bergen's black/death masters Aeternus stream their new album in full
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Aeternus's first album in five years, Heathen, in all its grim, fist-raising glory!

Myrkur/Winterfylleth collaborator Jo Quail unveils a wondrous new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Embrace the otherness and lose yourself to Mandrel Cantus from cellist Jo Quail's forthcoming album, Exsolve

Reach back in time with a stunning new video from Winterfylleth
By Jonathan Selzer published
Enter the mystical realms of Latch To A Grave, from Winterfylleth's acoustic album, The Hallowing Of Heirdom

Norway's black/thrash maniacs Deathhammer stream their new album in full
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Rampage through the wastelands to Deathhammer's claw-raising Chained To Hell album here!

Victorian black metallers A Forest Of Stars stream their new album in full
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Enter the weird, wonderful and frankly terrifying world of A Forest Of Stars' imminent new album, Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

Epic Greek black metallers Lucifer's Child unveil an infernal new video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Raise a fist and praise Satan to the title track from Lucifer's Child's new album, The Order

Bergen's epic black metallers Orkan release a haunting new video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Enter the Norwegian forests and lose yourself to Heim, from Orkan's new album, Element

UK black metallers Crimson Throne unveil an enthralling new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Indignant Slumber from Crimson Throne's forthcoming album, Of Void & Solitude

Seminal progressive metallers In The Woods... return with a stunning new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Listen to Empty Streets from In The Woods...' forthcoming album, Cease The Day

Warped Nordic noise rockers Årabrot stream their brilliant, new album in full
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Årabrot's unnerving and exhilarating forthcoming album, Who Do You Love right here

Lose your mind to an epic new track from A Forest Of Stars
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to the exhilarating Decomposing Deity Dancehall by Victorian black metallers A Forest Of Stars

Norway's progressive metallers Madder Mortem reveal a breathaking new video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Watch the Costin Chioreanu-created video for Madder Mortem's stunning track Far From Home

Shane Embury reveals all about his Napalm Death/Anaal Nathrakh team-up
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Born To Murder The World's blistering debut, The Infinite Mirror of Millennial Narcissism

Apocalyptic metallers A Storm Of Light unleash a blistering new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Listen to Slow Motion Apocalypse from A Storm Of Light's incendiary new album Anthroscene

From The Bogs Of Aughiska unveil a stark new video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Ireland's black ambient anthropologists The Bogs Of Aughiska burrow into the earth with a new track, Poll an Eidhneáin

Norway's Vreid unveil a spectacular and grisly new lyric video
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Witness a witch's comeuppance with the cinematic lyric video for Vreid's Black Rites In The Black Nights

Progressive death metallers Horrendous unveil a mesmerising new track
By Jonathan Selzer published
Premiere Enter the exquisite realms of The Idolater from Horrendous' forthcoming album, Idol
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