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Metallica - Fade To Black.
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"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 Metallica's then-normal style, but since its release, "Fade To Black" has been a fan favorite and a fixture in Metallica's live performances. It was also the last song that Metallica performed live with Jason Newsted. Jason's last gig was at the VH1 Music Awards on November 30, 2000. It was one of Newsted's 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 Newsted's 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 Montreal's 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 song's title is never mentioned in the lyrics. However, the song's title is mentioned in the track The Memory Remains off the band's 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 Devil's 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 can't 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 He's gone
No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
Now I can't 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

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I think this is ... ( 1 day ago by mikeone42)

I think this is there best song. Mustaine would have made Metallica beter than James? No WaY. The sound is brought together with his vocals. Mustaine pee's his pants. They do,however need Jason back.

Well Rob is a ... ( 1 day ago by Kreksnaw07)

Well Rob is a better bassist than Jason, but when jason was around they wrote better music =/, hes prolly a lucky charm or something or better at writing music..

I don't know if you ... ( 1 day ago by brotherhood302)

I don't know if you would consider this a ballad or just a slow metallic song, but it's one of the highlights of metal history as for as diverse creativity, and the solo is flawless!!!!

Load and ReLoad not ... ( 13 hours ago by SymphonyOfDestruct99)

Load and ReLoad not a bad album...there are much personal lyric which sometimes you can relate with your life...St. Anger also not too bad, they just unleashed their beast on that album and Death Magnetic they turn to be what should their be..

Array ( 13 hours ago by 5akerho)

ok Iron maiden is the best

nothing else ... ( 12 hours ago by buzzworthington)

nothing else matters was the song they were playing when james got burned not this song

haha u are sooo ... ( 12 hours ago by cliffburton993)

haha u are sooo stupid james and lars made the band it was kirk who got into the band after dave left

if you dare to tell ... ( 11 hours ago by AndreDarkAngel)

if you dare to tell us that St.Anger is not bad album, then, SIR, you are a retard and totally blinded Metallica fan, thank you.

death magnetic was ... ( 9 hours ago by poserkilla)

death magnetic was a surprisingly good album. i thought it would suck but it was something worth listening too. they reached back too their old roots that was great. post me back if you think that album had some fuzzy distorted parts in it i think so.

the good times of ... ( 9 hours ago by heavymetalhead95)

the good times of MetallicA ride the lightning the best album of them metal up your ass!!

the only song i ... ( 9 hours ago by XxsaintsblackxX)

the only song i liked from St. Anger was St. anger itself once you get past the thrash in the beginning....but they made st. anger ( the album because they wanted to gets the addictions and stuff off their chest...( primarily james).

he got burned? ( 8 hours ago by walrein947)

he got burned?

Wat a great song! ( 8 hours ago by xXMetallicaxX130)

Wat a great song!

I agree with you ... ( 8 hours ago by faramir95)

I agree with you only descent song was St. Anger and if they did not make the album, there might not have been a Metallica today. Well sora..

wow this song ... ( 8 hours ago by TheFuzz202)

wow this song totally poses off of good mourning/blackfriday by megadeth wow.... metallica suck megadeth pwns

TheFuzz202 - This ... ( 7 hours ago by meocuchad)

TheFuzz202 - This song was released 2 years before Good Mourning/Black Friday, you moron.

Hah, is that a joke ... ( 6 hours ago by faramir95)

Hah, is that a joke? They're both great, yes. But Metallica is FAR better than Megadeth anyday...

no no no you got it ... ( 5 hours ago by poisonkill)

no no no you got it all wrong, they wrote BETTER music with cliff burton, james was good from black albumn, and with ..and justice for all. well they had already wrote alot of it. but master of puppets, ride the lighting. those albumns were clif man! R.I.P

james hetfield got ... ( 5 hours ago by Hardcorerocker24)

james hetfield got burned if thats what u mean. its the reason they dont use fire on stage

oops guys replace ... ( 5 hours ago by poisonkill)

oops guys replace all the james's with jasons. thats what i meant

When the fuck is ... ( 5 hours ago by Poizon67)

When the fuck is this gonna end, both bands kick equal amount of ass

From my personal ... ( 4 hours ago by SymphonyOfDestruct99)

From my personal opinion St. Anger is not too bad if you watch SKOM movie, you can see how hard their try to make the record...btw, media also gave bad review to this album which cause people to straight judge it the most bad Metallica record..after watching SKOM, i appreaciate St. Anger

It's Fade to Black. ... ( 4 hours ago by SymphonyOfDestruct99)

It's Fade to Black...then after temporary treatment they back again onstage to play Nothing Else Matters because Axl Roses is late..after that show James is sent to the hospital

i agree ( 4 hours ago by eltri7)

i agree