Metal is not dead, we still have metal veterans like metallica, iron maiden, ozzy osbourne, black sabbath and so on... If you wanna hear a dead generation: Punk Rock and I don't mean Sum 41, Blink 182, Bowling forsoup punk, thats pop-punk I mean Punk real Punk like The Ramones, Old - School Green Day, The Clash, The Beatles, Old - School NOFX their all dead, NOFX and Green Day are also moving to pop-punk nowadays nobody ever does The Ramones kind of stuff anymore. Therefore, Metal is in-fact NOT dead yet but its dying like 75 years old dying kind of think it only has 5 years to live. Punk is dead, and has been for many years already.