What is the listed running time of Metallica’s original 12-track The Black Album?

Metallica’s original 12-track The Black Album has a listed running time of 62 minutes 40 seconds.

The album contains twelve songs, beginning with “Enter Sandman” and ending with “The Struggle Within.” Its length places it firmly in the long-form album tradition of the early compact-disc era, when a major studio record could fill most of a disc without being a double album.

The running time belongs to the original album sequence, not later deluxe editions. Anniversary editions and expanded releases add demos, live recordings, interviews, and other archival material, so their total duration is much longer.

Track lengths can vary slightly between formats or databases because of indexing and mastering differences. The canonical album listing gives the overall duration as 62:40.