perhaps a tad controversal but i think inventing the term hardstyle was a mistake, the sound that is now branded hardstyle used to be the harder end of hard trance/tech-trance but giving it its own name has now created a genre with not a great deal of scope and the trademark elements that have now become the base of the sound are very tired.

Im not necesserily saying i think its bad music but i think people are expecting too much from it at the moment, if the sound is going to move forward i think people need to let go of the current hardstyle thing a little and let it change, ive ehard some good tracks recently that sound like there moving forward, trying something differnt i just hate hearing the ones that are moving backwards which in my ears are a lot of them.
Too true, does evey hardstyle track have to follow the Guide to making Hardstyle handbook, i think not, theres a lot more that cane be done with it, i think it would be nice to have something in between the middle of hardtrance and hardstyle, or just combining the two together, Hardstyle is getting to formulatic,

Dont get me wrong im a massive fan of hardstyle,

I listen to it alot more that hardtrance, I just dont wanna see it die a slow and painfull death, i mean how long can tunes keep on getting released that nearly sound the same, Insert Reverse Bass, insert Sample, Insert Distort kick, Insert Bass

Still i love it just i dont wanna see it die