Which Metallica song closes the standard edition of the 1991 album Metallica?

“The Struggle Within” closes the standard edition of Metallica’s 1991 album Metallica.

It is track 12, following “My Friend of Misery.” The song lasts 3 minutes and 53 seconds and was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, with Kirk Hammett also credited in the album’s songwriting information for the track. Its compact, aggressive arrangement gives the record a forceful ending after the longer and more spacious songs earlier in the sequence.

Listeners sometimes identify “My Friend of Misery” as the closer because it is the penultimate track and has a prominent, distinctive bass-centered identity. “The God That Failed” is track 10, while “Through the Never” is track seven.

The Japanese edition adds “So What” after the standard sequence. That bonus track changes the edition’s total but does not change the closing song of the album’s original 12-track program.