Is this decade (2010-2019) the worst for for the Rock genre?

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I feel like the 80 s, 90 s and 2000 s were the best for the Rock Genre. Coming in waves, we had iconic artists. New and old artists had awesome albums flooding in, from all sorts of sub-genres.

Examples of some awesome Giants (in my opinion) would be...
- Avenged Sevenfold, Blink-182, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet for my Valentine, Coheed and Cambria, Crossfade, Daughtry, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Lifehouse, 3 Doors Down, Evanescence, Gorillas, Greenday, Journey, Kamelot, The Killers, Linkin Park, Muse, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Red Jumpsuit Aparatus, Killswitch Engaged, Nightwish, The Fray, Five Finger Death Punch, Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses, AC/DC... and a bunch more

And if any of these or other artists are still around... their music has become sub-par.

Yea sure there, are always exceptions like Bastille, Panic at the Disco, and a few more but nothing near the same capacity.

You guys know any other Artist of this Decade that can compete?

Anonymous · Answer

Not sure about that. The 1640s weren't very good for rock music.

Dominique · Answer

I agree with most of what WUWR said. I don't like a lot of the bands you listed as being good, but you named a few that I like very much (esp. Rage Against the Machine).

Here are some bands/singers with good rock music after 2010 (in my opinion):

Metric
Rival Sons
The Kills
Meg Myers
grandson
Highly Suspect
The Regrettes
Badflower
Bastille
July Talk
The Wombats
Bear Hands
Deap Vally
Yungblud
The 1975
Arctic Monkeys
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wolf Alice
Nine Inch Nails
The Raveonettes
Garbage
Ron Gallo
Walk the Moon
Spoon
Bishop Briggs
Death Cab for Cutie
The Interrupters
Florence and the Machine
Silversun Pickups
Middle Kids
The Joy Formidable
J Roddy Walston and the Business
The Heavy

WUWR · Answer

I tend to think it all works out in a flat line. If we're talking about sort of popular awareness then I will give you that, but if we're talking about quality of the product it feels to me like all decades are more or less the same. There are some great top tier records, some terrible, terrible records and a bunch of stuff in the middle. Because of diminished popularity you may have to work a little harder for the gems now than you may have had to in the 80s or 90s, but I think that is made up for having so much deeper of a pool to draw from thanks to the internet. As it's always been I'm much more worried about having time to try out all of the stuff that I'm interested in than struggling to find something interesting to check out.

We have different tastes, but there is a ton of stuff that I really dig from the present day. Bands like Herzog, Wye Oak, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Speedy Ortiz, Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Ex Hex, Swearin, Hop Along, etc.

Anonymous · Answer

No. There are some greats from this decade;
Frowning
Aphonic Threnody
Beneath
Barghest
Beirut

LP7 · Answer

The corporate machine has taken over and killed creativity for profit.Business is left brain and creative right.Natural inspiration is not money generated so many creative artists won't sell out and choose to stay anonymous and poor just like Van Gogh.It will change again into the future but right now we're in a dead zone of artificial repetitive second rate crap

Anonymous · Answer

How come you miss out Maiden, Metallica and a whole host of others who still cut it?

Anonymous · Answer

Well duh. Rock died in the 2010s. Now it's all about rap and pop.

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Is this decade (2010-2019) the worst for for the Rock genre?

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