Lindsey Stirling, the dubstep violinist who went from YouTube stardom to a No. 2 album on the Billboard 200 this year, has a reputation for taking violin to extreme places.
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For her "Crystallize" video in 2012, which now has over 105 million views, she did her thing in a glacial Colorado landscape that was as beautifully eerie as the song itself.
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For new single "Roundtable Rival," taken from her sophomore album Shatter Me, released in May, Stirling travels back in time apparently in search of an even more unforgiving environment: the Old West.
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In the big-budget, narrative video, premiering here on BuzzFeed, Stirling faces off against an up-to-no-good outlaw named Durango Black, who personifies the song's hard-charging guitar counterpart to Stirling's furious fiddle.
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"I have always loved country fiddle music so I wanted to try to combine country fiddle, with rock 'n' roll and EDM and see what happens," Stirling told BuzzFeed News in an email. "Then, as I was writing this in the studio, I immediately knew that it would be a steam-punk western throw down: me battling against an outlaw with music."
Black rolls in, guitar-a-blazing.
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But he's no match for Stirling and her band of dancing damsels.
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"It was one of the funnest shoots I've ever been on," Stirling said. "I love working with dancers, playing dress up is my favorite thing, and I even got to ride a horse."
Watch all the high-noon hijinks unfold in the full video below.
