I wasn't blaming the band, I was blaming the interviewers who ask the same damn questions every fucking time. I understand it to a point but Mike's stance on rock has brought up in literally every interview since he said it. It's absurd.
Or maybe the band (or the label) brings the questions AND the answers. It's more advertisement than information.
The ''rock is dying'' is just their way of advertising the album. Last time it was ''we're comfortable with where we are as a band and we didn't say no to anything, just make music we like, even if we did it before''. Like A Thousand Suns was ''we want to be genre breaking and break the mold(or something). They always have certain buzzwords each album cycle. Toolbox, visceral