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"Escape" is the sixth track off of Metallica's second studio album, Ride the Lightning. The song is notorious for being one of the band's most hated songs, because the record company had forced them to write something more radio friendly. Metallica refused to ever play it live, until 2012 at Orion Music Festival, when they were playing the album in its entirety. Drummer Lars Ulrich spoke about the song in an issue of Metal Hammer, stating: "It’s become this folklore that I hate “Escape.” It’s not true! It was the last song that was written for the Ride the Lightning sessions, and it was purposely kept a little shorter than the other songs. We thought of it in the spirit of Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hill” or Judas Priest’s “Living After Midnight”—dare I use the words ‘radio songs’? So instead of turning it into an eight-minute “Seek and Destroy” type of thing, we kept it on the short side. Then it got a bad rap, and I don’t know why. I don’t have a particular problem with it, but it never became a live staple like the other songs on the record. It just goes to show that you’re better off not trying to do things on purpose."
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