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Japanese Violinist Covers Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”: Metal Meets Classical Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTb0TQtVT6k In a 1992 journal article “Eruptions: heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity,” musicologist Robert Walser explored the link between heavy metal and classical music–the way in which metal guitarists studied classical music and created “a new kind of guitar virtuosity.” Published by Cambridge University Press, Walser’s essay comes to focus on Eddie Van Halen’s […]
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