“The Struggle Within” is the final standard-edition track on Metallica's 1991 album, commonly called The Black Album.
It appears as track 12 and lasts 3 minutes and 53 seconds. The song closes the album after “My Friend of Misery,” which is track 11, and “The God That Failed,” which is track 10.
The ending is easy to confuse with the album's bonus material. The Japanese edition included “So What” after the 12 standard songs, making that song an additional track rather than the closing song of the original sequence.
The album's order was carefully built around a strong opening and a compact final run. “Enter Sandman” begins the record, while “The Struggle Within” supplies its official standard-edition conclusion. The title refers to internal conflict, matching the album's broader introspective lyrical direction.