METALLICA FADE TO BLACK STUDIO VERSION
METALLICA FADE TO BLACK STUDIO VERSION , Metallica Fade To Black Check out my profile for all the other songs: Fade to Black is a song by thrash metal band Metallica from their second album Ride the Lightning 1984 It was the first musical ballad released by the band Some people consider the lyrical theme to be about a person who has decided to commit suicide; others do not share this view In an interview with lead vocalist James Hetfield on the set of the production MTV Icon: Metallica in 2005 he does recall how himself and bandmate Lars Ulrich were obsessed with death at the time the album and song were produced It was written after almost all of their equipment including a very rare amplifier given to singer/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield by his mother just before she died was stolen in Boston MA following a gig at the Channel Club on 14th January 1984 This event forced Metallica to borrow equipment from fellow tour band and friends Anthrax for the remainder of the tour It begins with an acoustic guitar introduction and becomes progressively heavier as the song goes on At the time some of the more extreme elements of fans deemed the song a sell out as it was such a departure from Metallicas then normal style but since its release Fade To Black has been a fan favorite and a fixture in Metallicas live performances It was also the last song that Metallica performed live with Jason Newsted Jasons last gig was at the VH1 Music Awards on November 30 2000 It was one of Newsteds favorite Metallica songs and was said to be of great sentimental value to him although it had been written before he had joined the band Interestingly Jason Newsteds old band Flotsam And Jetsam performed a song called Fade To Black on their 1986 album Doomsday For The Deceiver before Jason left to join Metallica although it bears little to no resemblance to the Metallica version This was also the song that Metallica had been playing the opening of during their infamous concert at Montreals Olympic Stadium in 1992 when James Hetfield suffered second and third degree burns from a pyrotechnic accident The song is credited to Hetfield/Ulrich/Burton/Hammett The songs title is never mentioned in the lyrics However the songs title is mentioned in the track The Memory Remains off the bands 1997 album ReLoad The song has been covered by: Disturbed on their live album Music As A Weapon II but without the heavier second half of the song; Apoptygma Berzerk on their studio album Welcome to Earth; finnish band Apocalyptica and the power metal band Sonata Arctica In 1996 Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir released Master of Disharmony in their EP Devils Path 1996 a song contains 30seconds of the last riffs / solo of Fade to Black as last bridge Fade To Black Life it seems will fade away Drifting further every day Getting lost within myself Nothing matters no one else I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free Things are not what they used to be Missing one inside of me Deathly lost this cant be real Cannot stand this hell I feel Emptiness is filing me To the point of agony Growing darkness taking dawn I was me but now Hes gone No one but me can save myself but its too late Now I cant think think why I should even try Yesterday seems as though it never existed Death Greets me warm now I will just say good bye