Nah I dont think it is at all. The sound will always be there if producers are still producing it and people are buying the records - which they are on both counts!

Ive always been a fan of the melodic side of hardtrance and anyone who knows me or has heard me play on this board knows (up until maybe a year ago!) that I love labels like - Fog Area, Axwax, Drizzly etc
Labels that release good melodic trance but with that harder edge to them.
I have had stick from other DJ's about it but it dont bother me because this is the style of hardtrance that does it for me.

I was never a fan of the 'Tracid traxx' sound - i.e Scott Project, Kai Tracid, Hennes + Cold, Overdose, Tracid traxx (you know what sound I mean)
to begin with yeah it was great, a new sound, but after a while of hearing full sets of tunes that sounded the same all night long it started to get a bit tedious and people got bored of it.
this is my worry about the Italian sound (Hardstyle) - I think its being played to death and people are going to get bored of it very quickly.
At the moment its still in its early stages and some awesome trax are being released but I have started to notice a similar sound to a lot of trax on different labels and from different producers, sound familiar?
dont get me wrong I am spending stupid amounts of money on Italian labels at the moment but for how long is the question - I dont want it to go down the path of the 'Tracid' sound because it is an exiting new sound and has a lot of potential especially for the 'underground' ( I use that term loosely) scene.

The point im trying to make is that melodic/bouncy hard trance wont faze out because I believe that people are still gonna want to hear it in the clubs, as they want to hear the whole range of hardtrance rather that 'hardstyle' all night!