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I’m off today, but had to share the story of the heavy metal monk…

Brother Cesare Bonizzi is a Capuchin friar in Milan who rocks out. He got into heavy metal 15 years ago at a… Metallica concert! Exit light! Enter night!

“I was overwhelmed and amazed by the sheer energy of it” he tells the BBC.

He began fronting a metal band, howling above the din, his white beard and friar’s hood swaying to the heavy beat.

The heavy metal monk says he would like to send his new CD to a certain lover of Mozart who lives in Rome.

“He is a music lover and metal is music!” Bonizzi says.

I kind of doubt that the pope would dig it, though.

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