---
title: "The Best Ballads by Metallica"
type: "MusicAlbum"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/album/dedb420e-6586-4695-afcb-31566222ced9"
artist: "Metallica"
year: 2005
label: "Real Records"
---

# The Best Ballads

**The Best Ballads** is a compilation by Metallica, released in 2005 on Real Records.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Title | The Best Ballads |
| Artist | Metallica |
| Type | Compilation |
| Year | 2005 |
| Label | Real Records |
| Catalog number | RR880 88-2 |
| Tracks | 20 |
| Place in discography | 285 of 1041 |

## Tracklist

| # | Track | Length |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Nothing Else Matters | 6:35 |
| 2 | The Unforgiven | 6:29 |
| 3 | Thorn Within | 5:23 |
| 4 | Fade to Black | 6:56 |
| 5 | Astronomy | 6:40 |
| 6 | Low Man’s Lyric | 7:39 |
| 7 | Where the Wild Things Are | 6:56 |
| 8 | Hero of the Day | 4:26 |
| 9 | My Friend of Misery | 6:52 |
| 10 | Bleeding Me | 6:36 |
| 11 | Enter Sandman | 5:31 |
| 12 | The Unforgiven II | 6:36 |
| 13 | Tuesday’s Gone | 9:05 |
| 14 | Welcome Home (Sanitarium) | 6:26 |
| 15 | Mama Said | 5:21 |
| 16 | One | 7:26 |
| 17 | Loverman | 7:52 |
| 18 | To Live Is to Die | 9:48 |
| 19 | Turn the Page | 6:06 |
| 20 | Orion (instrumental) | 8:26 |

## Genres

[Thrash Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/thrash-metal) · [Heavy Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/heavy-metal)

## In the discography

- Previous release: [Live at San Diego 1992 (2005)](https://themetalnet.com/album/78b2f0f3-70f9-4c31-9a65-1cb513712249)
- Next release: [1982/10/18 San Francisco, CA (2006)](https://themetalnet.com/album/eb3fd872-e1b3-38e3-94f4-b535e3d10fb4)

## Artist

- [Metallica](https://themetalnet.com/band/metallica)

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/album/dedb420e-6586-4695-afcb-31566222ced9](https://themetalnet.com/album/dedb420e-6586-4695-afcb-31566222ced9). Catalog compiled from open music-metadata sources. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt