There was a great article years back, on oped by guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani about the death of Shred music. In short: the way trends work is they get popula

There was a great article years back, on oped by guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani about the death of Shred music. In short: the way trends work is they get popular and then all the people already doing that thing get popular too. There is during that time people who jump on the bandwagon. Once the popularity dies off, lots of people keep doing that thing, it just doesn't get the notoriety it did before: it returns to its niche.