What is the final song on the original tracklist of Metallica's The Black Album?

“The Struggle Within” is the final song on the original tracklist of Metallica's The Black Album.

It appears as track twelve, closing the 1991 album after “The God That Failed.” The song returns to a forceful, compact heavy-metal approach after the record’s sequence of contrasting styles, including the ballad “Nothing Else Matters” and the groove-driven “Sad but True.” Its placement gives the original program a direct and energetic ending.

The title is sometimes confused with other late-album songs. “My Friend of Misery” is track eleven, “Of Wolf and Man” is track nine, and “Through the Never” is track six. All are on the same album, but none closes the original sequence.

Bonus material on deluxe and anniversary editions can change what listeners hear after the twelfth song. Those expanded releases do not alter the final track of the original 1991 album: that position belongs to “The Struggle Within.”