Thoughts on Music industry (and beyond) - I "Chronicle about the past, the present and future"

We all might have crossed eyes and ears one time or another with news from an artist we once admired and then.. never, ever, heard about again.
Maby we didn't hear about them sooner because they(band) split/disapeared, or even because we don't have the same interests anymore, and therfore we don't follow the same 'media' to know about. 

I've been thinking about that, because some 'nu metal nostalgia' seems to be haunting me these days. Lol, I'm listening to Slaves on Dope, and I've got brand new Crossbreed album ready for me to listen to it, so, I gess I'm pretty busted, lol.

All in all, what I intent to write is that, I've been thinking about all this rollercoaster effect. Meaning: Some of these bands I'm talking about - Nothingface, Professional murder music, 40 below summer, Nonpoint, Alien ant farm, the list goes on.. - got to be over the top, big labels, tours and all, 10 years ago, then we just stoped reading/hearing about 'em.

And the first question might be: What happened?

Well, the question I'm putting myself is that one, but in another terms. Sure we all know the interest and trending factors justify the suffocation of all of the info about them, but then again, I ask: What happened to those bands? Did they continued to persue their musical career, or simply call it quits?

I've been doing some investigation and I find it to be 50/50. 

As sorry as I am to get to know, Haste has call it quits, but from what I can tell Professional murder music have never give up, and Finch are together again.

I'm not, obviously, talking strictly about one genre, but about bands and artists that do, or do not refuse to quit just because they're not the next big scene anymore, or didn't even get to reach that point in the first time.

About some, like PMM, I found they aren't in a notorious label anymore and therefore, survive with the same strenght as an "amateur" band that fights with all the guts it has. We have to bound to this kind of strenght to fall so deep and still, have the guts to keep going on. It is also a great proof of passion for what they do.

Why? Because they hardly will have the same oportunity of exposure anytime soon - trend factor maby - and have no serious money to gain from what they do nowadays. Still, they keep doing it.

So, what I ask is this: Would you have this kind of strenght if it were you? It's kind of easier when you don't have to drag others from out of the quicksand along with you(do remember).