Metallica - Fade to Black (Studio Version)

Fade to Black is the fourth song on the thrash metal band Metallicas second studio album, Ride the Lightning. It was the first musical ballad released by the band, and is considered to be the precursor to The Unforgiven and Unforgiven II due to strong similarity in sound and subject matter. It was ranked as having the 24th best guitar solo ever by Guitar World magazine readers. It is one of Metallica's most famous songs.
In an interview with drummer Lars Ulrich on the set of the production MTV Icon: Metallica in 2005, he recalls how he and bandmate James Hetfield 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. The lyrics suggest a man contemplating, then eventually committing suicide.
It begins with an acoustic guitar introduction and becomes progressively heavier as the song goes on.
Since its release, Fade to Black has been a fixture in Metallica's live performances. It was also the last song that Metallica performed live with former bassist 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. Jason Newsted's previous 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 no resemblance to the Metallica version.
Metallica was playing the intro of this song during their concert at Montreal's Olympic Stadium in 1992, when James Hetfield suffered second and third-degree burns from a pyrotechnic accident.
The song's title is never mentioned in the lyrics.

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 aren't what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Can not stand this hell I feel

Emptiness is filling 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 goodbye

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[crazzymike1971]

Metallica is one of my all time favs..........Shit kids listen to today is garabage ( my opinion ) Metal will never die.........

[DrummerDlux]

The Best Part is 0:00 - 6:55

[sean123fr3sh]

love the acoustic guitar metallica is the best from the 80's until the world is over (in my opinion) and I am 15 and this comming from me rap music is fucking trash metallica FTW like this comment for the love of metallica!!!!!

[MrTank62]

@dbgam3rz yes metal is the best genre of all time

[tallicafan0123]

this is straight up the best solo of all time

[MisrSouperman]

Why do the views only show how many times I have seen this?

[marshmalloninja]

@dbgam3rz i made up a rap:

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[marshmalloninja]

@TheBeaverX i tottally agree. if you want an easy song to perform, look up like any modern song. if you want something amizing, look up like, anything by mettalica or rush. check out YYZ by rush it's insane.

[NoAntidote666]

OH GOD IT HURTS OH GOD I HAVE NO ONE

[morales21691]

@crazzymike1971 thats really not true. theres plenty of new artists coming out with legit shit. but if your talking bieb or the new boys lol or some other new age doo doo then yeah your right about that