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Originally Posted by Chromatic
I was speaking more to the fact of people going around believing rock is dead because there isn't a Zeppelin or Pink Floyd around. The type of a HUGE guitar band is the way of the dodo.
Also the tracks I posted are mostly rock. Heavy rock but still accessible. They started as a sludge metal band with prog tendencies band but have been moving away from that into more prog rock in recent years.
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But that's what I mean: Rock is Dead.
There aren't 30-50 new bands out there selling out arenas and stadiums. Band aren't selling millions upon millions of units, they're lucky to sell 50,000 units. In 2013, less 1% of all music released sold more than 5,000 units. 5,000. Even at $9.99 a download, that's less than $50k and that's before production costs, instruments, amps, etc.
As someone mentioned earlier, the marketplace is too fractured. If rock music was still controlled by record companies and publishers, many of today's bands would be more streamlined and focused, which most listeners appreciate because of the various media forms and lifestyles of Millennials.