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Metal and classical music for me will be forever linked. I started to become familiar with the classical repertoire at the same time that I was writing riffs for my first metal band and now I just can ...

Classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine is a musical scholar who can discuss, eloquently and at length, the esoterica of the baroque era – or of Anthrax and Megadeth, two of her favorite metal bands.