Which Metallica song from The Black Album begins with a prominent sitar-and-gong introduction?

“Wherever I May Roam” is the Metallica song from The Black Album that begins with a prominent sitar-and-gong introduction.

The unusual opening gives the track an immediately recognizable texture before the main heavy-guitar arrangement enters. The recording also uses an overdubbed Warwick 12-string bass for emphasis in the introduction, while a standard four-string bass carries the main bass part through the rest of the song.

The song's lyrics reflect life on the road and the idea that touring has become a form of home. James Hetfield wrote the lyrics, and the composition was credited to Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. The track was released as the album's fourth single in October 1992 and reached number two on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The studio intro is especially distinctive because the band generally relied on the original sitar recording when performing the song live. For the S&M concerts, Kirk Hammett used a Danelectro electric sitar before changing to his regular electric guitar. The song's unusual instrumentation is therefore not a separate remix or a different album version; it is part of the original arrangement.