What was the final track on Metallica’s 1991 album, The Black Album?

“The Struggle Within” was the final track on Metallica’s 1991 album, The Black Album.

It appears as track twelve, closing the standard album sequence after “My Friend of Misery.” The song is one of the record’s more aggressive performances and ends an album otherwise known for balancing heavy riffs with slower, more spacious material.

The Black Album’s sequencing begins with “Enter Sandman,” followed by “Sad but True,” “Holier Than Thou,” “The Unforgiven,” and “Wherever I May Roam.” The remaining tracks continue through “Don’t Tread on Me,” “Through the Never,” “Nothing Else Matters,” “Of Wolf and Man,” “The God That Failed,” “My Friend of Misery,” and finally “The Struggle Within.”

Listeners sometimes confuse the closing track with “My Friend of Misery,” because that song immediately precedes it and has a distinctive bass-led opening. The final track is also different from the album’s hidden or bonus material on some later editions.