Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton, and Kirk Hammett, the nearly seven-minute song opens with a delicate acoustic intro before building to a heavier arrangement and introducing dark lyrics about despair. The piece culminates with a lengthy dual-guitar solo that carries the song to its close.
“It was pretty much our first ballad, so it was challenging and we knew it would freak people out,” the Metallica frontman once told Guitar World in an interview. “Bands like Exodus and Slayer don’t do ballads, but they’ve stuck themselves in that position, which is something we never wanted to do.”
"Recording that song, I learned how frustrating acoustic guitar can be,” he shared. “You could hear every squeak, so I had to be careful.”
“I remember writing Fade To Black [on a friend’s] couch,” he told Howard Stern’s radio show, per Classic Rock. “He took us in when our manager basically kicked us out of his house… we were supposed to go to Europe for the first time, and our gear had gotten stolen.”
In 2017, Hetfield told So What, "When 'Fade to Black' was originally written, this was real. Like, 'I hate life. Our gear just got stolen, we can't live our dream, we're not gonna make it to Europe,' all these things.”
Hetfield also noted, “We got hundreds and hundreds of letters from kids telling us how they related to the song and that it made them feel better."
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