Metallica · Ride the Lightning
Fight Fire With Fire
Fight Fire With Fire is in A minor at 90.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
90 BPM · Andantemedian of 153 analyses · 90.1–90.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 153people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 665.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.17dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.914Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.201Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
153 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 153 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 90.2 BPM one beat lasts 665.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 166.3 ms and a dotted eighth 498.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 180.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.17 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.914 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in A minor; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with A minor
Each of these differs from A minor by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 90 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2660.8 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1330.4 | 0.75 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 997.8 | 1 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 665.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 443.5 | 2.26 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 498.9 | 2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 332.6 | 3.01 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 221.7 | 4.51 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 249.4 | 4.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 166.3 | 6.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 110.9 | 9.02 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 83.1 | 12.03 |
Half time 45.1 BPM · double time 180.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (665.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- War Pigs / Luke’s WallBlack SabbathA minor90BPM
- Good Life2Pac featuring Big Syke & E.D.I of the OUTLAWZA minor90BPM
- Je sais pasCéline DionA minor90BPM
- SchoolSupertrampA minor90BPM
- RinzlerDaft PunkA minor90BPM
- CloserNine Inch NailsA minor90BPM
- Heathenstwenty one pilotsA minor90BPM
- In My FeelingsLana Del ReyA minor90BPM
- No OneAlicia KeysA minor90BPM
- One for the RoadArctic MonkeysA minor91BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 90 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 90 BPMA minor at 90–99 BPMMetallica
MusicBrainz collapses 196 recording ids into this one. Recording id 209f52dc-b170-4222-92b7-5b2c304e7b79.