Friends, Romans, THKD readers,
Roughly 5 months ago, Brandon Duncan (whom you may know from The Sequence of Prime) contacted me with an idea; let’s start a new online metal zine. Typically I prefer to work alone, but Brandon’s enthusiasm is contagious and I’m proud to call him my friend, so there was absolutely no way I could refuse. Brandon gathered an ace design team while I hand-picked some of my favorite writers from internet metal land with the express purpose of creating something new and unique, to drag the old school metal zine into the future, come Hell or high water with an emphasis on good old-fashioned writing and design.
After 5 months of hard work, I’m proud to present to all of you the fruits of our labors in the form of Backlit #0; fifteen pages of mind-melting music, art and literature.
Backlit / 0
Inaugural Issue
Now available at backlitzine.com
Cover Art by Dan Harding
Columns:
Raping Angels in America #1 / Joshua Haun
Angry Old Men / Jordan Campbell
Helpless Child / Dan Obstkrieg
Fucking The Future / Joshua Haun
Libations in the Labyrinth Vol. 1 / Dan Obstkrieg
Words That Wound / Dan Obstkrieg
Doomsday Device / Joshua Haun
Interviews:
Interview With Jester King Brewery / The Dragon of M87
Interview With Ashencult / Jordan Campbell
Art & Fiction:
Succubus in the Attic / Nikki Guerlain
Dan Harding: The Fine Art of Horror / Brandon Duncan
STAFF:
Overlords:
Joshua Haun
Brandon Duncan
Contributing Writers:
Joshua Haun
Jordan Campbell
Danhammer Obstkrieg
The Dragon of M87
Copy Editor:
Danhammer Obstkrieg
Design:
Brandon Duncan
Philip Tyson
Spencer Walker
I hope that you will all enjoy reading the first issue of Backlit as much as we enjoyed crafting it. This is only the beginning!
THKD 
Just read the zine after stumbling across a mention on the MR forums. This is a stunning effort and by far and away the best looking heavy music oriented site out there – especially on mobile. I didn’t love absolutely every article but that’s neither here nor there, it was great to read some long form writing that wasn’t pretentious or trying too hard. I’ll look forward to the next issue. There’s a great team in place there – good luck with it!
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I have to say, at first I was confused by the lack of clickable links (for example, within the table of contents). But as I looked through it more, I came to appreciate the stubbornly old-school aesthetic.
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