thrash metal

Göransson absorbed his dad’s passions and mutated them into a personal obsession with Metallica, an electric descendant of the blues, in the process becoming a guitar player proficient in everything from thrash metal to jazz.

As a director, he showed a gift for placing music with stunning impact, from Samuel Barber’s deeply emotional “Adagio For Strings” in 1980’s “The Elephant Man,” to the raging thrash metal riffs of Powermad in 1990’s “Wild at Heart,” and Rebekah Del Rio’s torrid Spanish a cappella reading of “Llorando” in “Mulholland Drive.”

Slayer, the pioneering thrash metal band he co-founded in 1981 from suburban Huntington Park, was finished as an active touring and recording outfit, much to the sadness and disbelief of the teary, moshing crowd in front of him.

The Man, genuinely delighted to be back “home” in the Pacific Northwest, took the stage nestled against a bank of trees at Remlinger Farms, the most highly anticipated new concert venue of the year, with an unholy heavy metal medley featuring snippets of thrash metal masterpieces like “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and Slayer’s “Raining Blood.”

Lengyel was an early member of Mr. Bungle, a thrash metal band formed in 1985 by a trio of high school buddies in the Humboldt County logging and fishing town of Eureka.