12 Best Closing Songs On Hard Rock Albums
11. Spit Out The Bone - Metallica
Metallica have been an albums band from the moment they started. While they eventually got to become darlings of rock radio thanks to tracks like "Enter Sandman," these hard-edged sonic excursions were essential for letting the metal scene grow. They may have pushed the limits of what thrash could do, but it's even more curious how their greatest closing song comes from their most recent release.
Granted, the band's most recent album Hardwired...to Self Destruct is a bit of a mixed bag. If you were to widdle this album down to one single disc instead of a double album, it would have been a much greater experience overall, but "Spit Out the Bone" has to be the best song these guys have written in over 20 years. Set at a breakneck tempo, the song doesn't feel so much like an album track but a journey through a barren wasteland, as James Hetfield's lyrics warn about being overthrown by the technology infiltrating our everyday life.
Yes, the message is a little bit on-the-nose, but when you have riffs that sound this fresh, it's hardly a hindrance to the song. Right at the end of the record, Metallica managed to take everything that made their early material great and condense it into 7 glorious minutes.