The claim is made about once a decade and rests on measuring the wrong thing. Rock is declared dead at...
Rock
The genre generates named subdivisions faster than any other, and the reasons are structural. Metal has produced more named subgenres...
Down-tuned guitars occupy the bass register, and something has to move. In heavy music the bass guitar is competing for...
The wider vinyl revival was a return. Here it was continuity. The vinyl revival is usually told as a comeback...
The long goodbye is a real economic strategy and it has a limit. Extended farewell tours are easy to mock...
Overdrive was a fault before it was a sound. The physics explain why it stayed. The defining texture of hard...
Dropping the pitch is not just darker. It changes string tension, playing technique and what the riff can be. Tuning...
The size in a classic rock drum sound is usually the room, not the kit. Ask what makes a heavy...
Backline stacks became staging long before they stopped being necessary. The towering wall of speaker cabinets behind a hard rock...
Some remasters fix genuine problems. Others exist because a catalogue needs a reason to be sold again. Heavy catalogues get...