What was the final track on Metallica's original 1991 album Metallica?

“The Struggle Within” was the final track on Metallica's original 1991 album Metallica.

It occupies track 12, closing the standard album after “My Friend of Misery.” The song is one of the record's shorter, more forceful pieces and ends the original sequence with an intense finish rather than a ballad or extended instrumental.

The track list is sometimes misremembered because several songs became more prominent singles or concert staples. “Enter Sandman” opens the album, while “The Struggle Within” closes it; “Through the Never,” “Of Wolf and Man,” and “My Friend of Misery” appear earlier in the sequence.

Expanded anniversary editions added many recordings around the original album, including demos and live performances. Those additions can make the overall release appear to have a different ending, but the original 1991 studio sequence ends with “The Struggle Within.”