The future of rock is a hard thing to predict, if not completely impossible in my opinion. We will have to see what happens in another 20 or 30 years from now. I do know that different individual music styles seem to revolve in cycles with time through previous musical influences, and just seem to keep splintering off into other newly formed sub-genres. But no one can actually say with 100% accuracy what will happen to rock (or any other genre) as far as predicting the future of any particular genre.
I personally think that the Rap genre is a lot more vulnerable (in the future) with the possibility to decline in popularity than the Rock/Metal genres are. Which brings the only possible insight and prediction that I could make with any validity. Which is..that certain genres may recede in popularity to a more underground audience and just simply become less popular. But I in no way expect any genre of music (rock for example) to be wiped completely off the map. Just a decline in popularity (maybe).
Progressive Metal is currently more popular than ever before and still on the rise here in the U.S. if that tells us anything?
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