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Rock isn't quite dead but it has been marginalized from the mainstream. It's partly due to the internet creating niche cultures among musicians creating cancerous circle jerks like djent and other sub-sub-sub genres of metal that are fucking boring to listen to. At the opposite extreme there is the “lo-fi” indie rock that tries to intentionally sound like crap by degrading their audio quality, and using dissonant chords for the sake of dissonance, and nonsensical lyrics for the sake of nonsense.
However, that can't be the whole story since up until about 2012 or so mainstream rock was still going strong. Nu-metal, Pop punk, and I would also add “Post-Alternative” (bands like Nickleback, Breaking Benjamin, etc…) were not the last gasp of rock. There was a new trend of EDM mixed with alternative, bands like Muse, The Naked and Famous, M83. There were also more traditional guitar-rock groups The Black Keys and My Morning Jacket. Even the popular Indie-Folk stuff was rock ballad based and was going strong. Say what you want about these bands and their songs, but they were definitely rock based, and fit nicely with the music trends stretching back to the early. Rock was moving a different direction but was alive and well, and guitar music was still going strong. Mainstream bands, however mediocre, are important because they expose normalfags to the rock music culture at large. Hearing rock songs on the radio is what makes kids pick up a guitar or learn the drums, and mostly importantly helps turn them away from degenerate nigger culture and jewish programming.
Then suddenly that music seemed to just disappear. “Demand” has nothing to do with it. People will listen to whatever (((they))) put on the radio, and rock music stop appearing on the popular radio, billboard charts, and top 40 streaming playlists. The major decline started around 2012. Obama was reelected that year, and he and his media buddies were given a mandate inject poz into everything, turning the cultural decay up to 11. Cut to today. Radio is all nigger beats (using the exact same kick, clap, and hihat samples), sheboon R&B, with a few soyboys with acoustic guitars like Ed Sheeran thrown in there, and maybe some identical sounding Pop Country songs. Rock is all but dead, at least as far as mainstream music is concerned.
I want to believe that do being pit ushed into the underground, and Marxist agitators being drained positions of power like poison from a wound, rock is ripe for a massive comeback. But sadly IRL there aren't really music scenes anymore. People still go to shows and play, but in my city for example, there is no stylistic trend or genre, or culture that differentiates itself from another. Everyone is part of the same “movement,” with every show feeling like a battle of the genres without a cohesive base. Everyone is part of the same scene, so nobody is part of anything, other than regurgitating the same old crap. Everyone is now a scenster, even the hippest indie drug addled old-school punk. 10 years ago there were thriving scenes for all genres of, now it's nothing but boomer cover bands. I don't mean your average dad rock cover group that play everywhere in every city, I mean these are now the “big name” bands in my city, and they're are the only rock groups who can draw in thousands to a show.
tl;dr Rock isn't dead, but it's on life support.