Long Burn the Fire is the second studio album by the Detroit rock band, Black Merda.

The album sleeve features only guitarists Anthony and Charles Hawkins, and bassist VC L. Veasey.

All of the album’s tracks are also collected on the 2005 Black Merda compilation The Folks from Mother's Mixer.

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau regarded Long Burn the Fire as a "follow-up" to the 1971 Sly and the Family Stone album There's a Riot Goin' On and went on to say: "No more riots here than with Sly, or course [sic]—just self-hate, misogyny, desperate poverty, and senseless violence, as out-of-tune voices declaim strangely catchy tunes over loitering funk patterns and jagged guitar.

But the most surreal passage comes toward the close of 'My Mistake,' when 'I should have killed her instead' (author's note: of the friend he caught having sex with her), horrifying enough as a surprise endline, is transformed into a little piece of art-funk, repeated amid various instrumental configurations by an off-key chorale that sounds positively transported.