Anthrax · Among the Living
Among the Living
Among the Living is in E major at 102.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
103 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 102.4–102.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 585.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.25dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.919Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.296Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 102.5 BPM one beat lasts 585.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.3 ms and a dotted eighth 439 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 205. 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 2.25 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 0.919 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 E major; 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 E major
Each of these differs from E major 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 103 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2341.5 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1170.7 | 0.85 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 878 | 1.14 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 585.4 | 1.71 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 390.2 | 2.56 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 439 | 2.28 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 292.7 | 3.42 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 195.1 | 5.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 219.5 | 4.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 146.3 | 6.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 97.6 | 10.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 73.2 | 13.67 |
Half time 51.3 BPM · double time 205 BPM. Every row is one beat (585.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- IfPink FloydE major103BPM
- GirlfriendMichael JacksonE major103BPM
- Living in DangerAce of BaseE major102BPM
- Riding With the KingB.B. King & Eric ClaptonE major102BPM
- In PiecesBackstreet BoysE major102BPM
- Fakin’ ItSimon & GarfunkelE major102BPM
- What’s Going OnMarvin GayeE major102BPM
- Breezin’The B‐52’sE major103BPM
- L’amour existe encoreCéline DionE major104BPM
- You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)Rod StewartE major104BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 103 BPME major at 100–109 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0e511421-ee06-47df-ba0d-a58163fdf7a0.