Tributes, Documentaries, and Deep Cuts: How Metal Spent Its Week Honoring Its Own

There are weeks when metal news reads like a tour itinerary, and then there are weeks like this one, where the entire global metal scene seems to pause and look backward — not out of nostalgia for its own sake, but to properly honor the people and songs that built it. From a long-awaited documentary premiere to an all-star festival stacked with tribute sets, from a brutal loss in the Canadian rock community to a thrash institution getting its deep cuts finally recognized, this week was about legacy: who carries it, who's lost it, and who's quietly rewriting it from the back catalog forward.