Which Metallica Black Album track began with a main riff written by bassist Jason Newsted?

“My Friend of Misery” began with a main riff written by bassist Jason Newsted.

Newsted contributed the central riff and concept while Metallica was developing material for the album. The song was originally intended to be an instrumental, continuing a pattern in which earlier Metallica albums had included instrumental tracks.

The final recording became a vocal song, with lyrics and additional writing credited to James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Newsted. It appears as the penultimate track on the standard album sequence, before “The Struggle Within.”

The song is sometimes overlooked because it was not one of the album’s major singles. It is nevertheless important to the record’s history because Newsted’s writing contribution is one of the clearest examples of a bassist shaping a Black Album composition.