10 Terrible Songs By Perfect Rock Bands

By Metallica standards, Master of Puppets may be the closest thing that they have to a perfect album. The Black Album may have had some of their biggest radio hits, but this is where everything really came together, with heavy riffs and keeping a strong sense of melody throughout like Orion or Welcome Home Sanitarium. Ride the Lightning can easily join that company as well, if not for the one song that broke up the flow.

Working out of a studio in Denmark, the band finally had all the tracks for what they thought was a tight 7 song experience, until Lars Ulrich got word that they needed to record one more song. Rolling over for their label, Escape is the sound of one day’s work, with Metallica trying to write the thrash metal version of a crossover rock song. Although you can definitely hear influences from Thin Lizzy in here, they can’t help but go back to their heavy roots, turning it into a completely different song for the heavy breakdown.

Even though this is far better than something like St. Anger, the band don’t seem to want to be here on this song, like they’re scraping something together as the tape rolls. They may have been committed to original material, but if they replaced Escape with their cover of Diamond Head’s Am I Evil, we may be looking at the best thrash album the band ever made.