Which Metallica song closes the 12-track album commonly called The Black Album?

“The Struggle Within” closes the 12-track album commonly called The Black Album.

It appears as track 12, following “My Friend of Misery.” The song is one of the record’s most aggressive late-album moments, using a fast, tense arrangement after the slower and more spacious sections that appear elsewhere on the track list.

The album’s sequence balances concise metal songs with contrasting pieces such as “Nothing Else Matters” and “The Unforgiven.” Ending with “The Struggle Within” gives the record a forceful final statement rather than a reflective fade-out.

Listeners sometimes confuse the final track with “My Friend of Misery” because that song immediately precedes it and was also important to the album’s closing stretch. The official track listing places “The Struggle Within” last on the original 1991 studio album.