What is the official running time of Metallica's The Black Album?

Metallica's The Black Album has an official running time of 62 minutes and 40 seconds.

The album contains 12 tracks, beginning with “Enter Sandman” and ending with “The Struggle Within.” Its running time places it among the longer major-label rock albums of its period, while the individual songs generally use more concise structures than many tracks on Metallica's preceding records.

The duration is a useful way to distinguish the original studio album from later editions and anniversary releases. Expanded reissues add demos, live recordings, and alternate material, so their total playing times are much longer than the original album's listed length.

Track times can vary slightly between physical editions and digital databases because of indexing or mastering differences. The canonical album listing, however, gives the original release a total length of 62:40.