Hit the lights

about this song

“Hit the Lights” is the first track on the album. It was the first song that Hetfield and Ulrich worked on when forming Metallica. Early versions of the song can be heard on 1982’s Metal Massacre compilation of unsigned metal bands, as well as its subsequent re-issue, and the group’s first demo, No Life ‘Til Leather. The demo’s title happens to come from the first line of the song. Hetfield had brought the majority of the song to Ulrich from his old band, Leather Charm, and the two worked out different arrangements.

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