The original version of Metallica's The Black Album contains 12 songs.
Its track list begins with “Enter Sandman” and ends with “The Struggle Within.” Between them are well-known songs including “Sad but True,” “The Unforgiven,” “Nothing Else Matters,” “Wherever I May Roam,” and “Of Wolf and Man.”
The album's 12-song structure helped balance concise hard-rock songs with slower and more expansive pieces. Unlike an expanded anniversary box set, the original studio album does not include demos, live performances, or alternate mixes.
Listeners may count more than 12 tracks when using deluxe editions released later. The 2021 remastered box set added extensive bonus material, so its total track count is not the correct figure for the original 1991 album. The answer refers only to the standard studio program.