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"Fade to Black" is a song and the first power ballad by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released as the first promotional single from their second studio album, Ride the Lightning (1984). The song was ranked as having the 24th-best guitar solo ever by Guitar World readers. [2] The song peaked at number 100 on Swiss Singles Chart in ...
"Fade to Black" is a power ballad with lyrics about suicide. Hetfield wrote the words because he felt powerless after the band's equipment was stolen before the January 1984 show in Boston. [5] Musically, the song begins with an acoustic guitar introduction overlaid with electric soloing.
"Sad but True" is in D Standard tuning, however the song was originally written and demoed in E Standard. Bob Rock, who produced The Black Album, recalled to Musicradar.com: "We were in pre-production, which was uncomfortable because nobody had ever made them go through their songs in such a deliberate way before, and six songs in 'Sad But True' came along.
"The Day That Never Comes" appears as part of the Death Magnetic album DLC for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and it was later optimized to be used for Guitar Hero: World Tour, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The song was used in the video game DJ Hero 2 mixed with Kanye West's "Love Lockdown."
The song also ranked number 1 on a 100 Greatest Riffs poll conducted by Total Guitar magazine. [citation needed] The readers of Guitar World voted the song as ranking at number 51 among the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett's solos for "Fade to Black" and "One" ranked significantly higher on the same list. [citation needed]
Chart performance for "Screaming Suicide" Chart (2023–24) Peak position Australia Digital Tracks [12] 25 Canada Digital Songs [13] 33 Canada Rock [14] 30 Czech Republic Rock [15] 12 Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [16] 59 Germany Airplay [17] 37 Germany Rock Airplay (Official German Charts) [18] 25
Lars Ulrich explained that the band wanted to try something new with the idea of a ballad.Instead of the standard melodic verse and heavy chorus – as evidenced on their previous ballads "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One" – the band opted to reverse the dynamic, with heavy, distorted verses and a softer, melodic chorus, played with clean electric and acoustic guitars.
Fade to Black can refer to: Fade (lighting) , in stage lighting, a change in light level; decreasing the level to complete darkness is a "fade to black" Fade to Black (novel) , a Nero Wolfe mystery by Robert Goldsborough