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You taught me about using music as a muse and took me to a Texas sunset in the desert, where Nicolas Cage and I exploded to Powermad’s speed metal song “Slaughterhouse,” which then transitioned into love bursting open with Richard Strauss’ “Im Abendrot.”

The Stains blended Becerra’s blistering guitar riffs with Amezquita’s lyrics about living at the margins of society to create a sound that combined the urgency of punk with the precision of metal — years before newer subgenres like thrash or speed metal became prevalent.

The music includes speed metal by Extreme, some “Detroit Rock City,” stoner anthems by Musical Youth, one-hit wonders Dead or Alive and Falco.

The material of the slide also changes the speed: Metal is the fastest, while plastic is the slowest.

The outlet shared the Southern California native is considered as “an architect of the speed metal movement” and continues to have loyal following 35 years later.