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  Name Hit the Lights
  Artist Metallica
  Album Kill 'Em All
  Released July 1983
  Recorded May 1983
  Genre Thrash Metal
  Length 4:17
  Writer James Hetfield <br> Lars Ulrich
  Label Megaforce Records
  Producer Paul Curcio<br>Jon Zazula
  Tracks # "'''Hit the Lights'''"


"Hit the Lights" is the first track on Metallica 's 1983 album '' Kill 'Em All ''. It was the first song that James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich worked on when forming Metallica . Early versions of the song can be heard on 1982's " Metal Massacre " compilation of emerging thrash metal bands, as well as its subsequent re-issue, and the group's first demo, "No Life 'Till 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. This was one of only a handful songs that were performed live with Dave Mustaine as the lead guitarist.

The lyrical theme of the song is about performing live, travelling on the road and living the 'heavy metal' lifestyle: it also refers to an appreciation of the band's many loyal fans.


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