Hail Varga, Hail Slipknot's Stadiums: The Week US Metal Buried One Icon and Booked a Thousand More

Every so often the metal calendar hands you a week that feels like a full-circle gut punch — one foot planted in mourning, the other stomping toward stadium-sized futures. This is one of those weeks. We lost a genuine road warrior of American shock rock, watched a nu-metal titan hand the torch to a teenager on national television, and got confirmation that grindcore's elder statesmen can still make NPR's tote-bag crowd lose their minds. Let's get into it.