Which track is longest on the original 12-song edition of Metallica’s 1991 album?

“My Friend of Misery” is the longest track on the original 12-song edition of Metallica’s 1991 album.

The song runs 6 minutes and 49 seconds, narrowly exceeding “Wherever I May Roam” at 6:44, “Nothing Else Matters” at 6:28, and “The Unforgiven” at 6:27. Its position as track 11 makes it easy to overlook when listeners remember the album’s better-known singles.

Jason Newsted wrote the main riff, and the song was originally intended to be an instrumental. It became the only album track to credit Newsted as a music co-writer alongside James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. All lyrics on the album were written by Hetfield.

The original standard edition contains 12 tracks and has a listed total length of 62:31. Some regional editions included the bonus cover “So What,” but that Japanese bonus track is not part of the original standard 12-song sequence used for this comparison.