System of a Down · Toxicity

Toxicity

Toxicity is in C minor at 117.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 174 analyses · 115.1–117.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
174people who ran the extractor
One beat
511.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.4Hz · -6.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.15dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.086Essentia'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

174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 115.1 to 117.5 BPM.

At 117.3 BPM one beat lasts 511.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.9 ms and a dotted eighth 383.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 234.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.4 Hz, which is 6.5 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 3.15 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 0.884 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 C 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 117 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420460.49
Half note210230.98
Dotted quarter1.5767.31.3
Quarter note (one beat)1511.51.96
Quarter triplet0.6673412.93
Dotted eighth0.75383.62.61
Eighth note0.5255.83.91
Eighth triplet0.333170.55.87
Dotted sixteenth0.375191.85.21
Sixteenth note0.25127.97.82
Sixteenth triplet0.16785.311.73
Thirty-second note0.12563.915.64

Half time 58.7 BPM · double time 234.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (511.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DarknessAerosmithC minor117BPM
  2. LovesongAdeleC minor117BPM
  3. BabyClean Bandit feat. MARINA & Luis FonsiC minor117BPM
  4. Into the GrooveMadonnaC minor117BPM
  5. SalsationDavid ShireC minor118BPM
  6. Since I’ve Been Loving YouLed ZeppelinC minor118BPM
  7. Hella GoodNo DoubtC minor115BPM
  8. Dust Bowl DanceMumford & SonsC minor120BPM
  9. Smoke on the WaterDeep PurpleC minor115BPM
  10. LiquorZZ TopC minor120BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 117 BPMC minor at 110–119 BPMSystem of a Down

MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4e1083c3-b577-48e9-9a56-7bbbcbb1d6e7.