The band that wrote the nu metal rulebook: down-tuned seven-string grooves, slap bass and Jonathan Davis's raw, confessional howl, from 'Blind' to 'Freak on a Leash'.
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Boardwalk Rock 2027 Lineup
Three days of rock and metal on the beach at the Ocean City Inlet, with Korn, Bad Omens and Iron Maiden closing the nights.
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About Boardwalk Rock 2027
Boardwalk Rock 2027 runs Friday May 14 to Sunday May 16 on the beach at the Ocean City Inlet in Ocean City, Maryland. Korn closes Friday, Bad Omens Saturday and Iron Maiden Sunday, with gates open from 12pm to 11pm each day.
Each night has its own shape. Friday stacks nu metal and 90s hard rock under Korn, with Breaking Benjamin, The Prodigy, Cypress Hill and Clutch. Saturday turns toward metalcore and goth theatre with Marilyn Manson, Motionless In White and Poppy. Sunday is the old guard, Alice In Chains and Judas Priest before Maiden, with The HU's throat singing and Apocalyptica's cellos further down. 43 acts in all.
Expect hard rock, rock, metal and post-grunge across 43 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Ocean City Inlet, Ocean City, MD
- Lineup
- 43 acts
- Hours
- Gates open at 12pm and close at 11pm each day.
- Ages
- All ages. Children 8 and under get in free with a ticket-holding adult. In Platinum only kids 2 and younger are free and ages 3 to 8 need a Platinum Kids ticket, and every Ultimate guest needs a paid ticket.
- Passes
- 3-Day GA starts at $349, GA+ at $579, VIP at $959, Platinum at $2650 and Ultimate at $7500. 1-Day GA starts at $179.
- Website
- Official site
Boardwalk Rock 2027 lineup & schedule: all 43 acts
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Noah Sebastian's project drifted from metalcore toward something moodier and far more electronic, and got much bigger for it. 'Just Pretend' made them the scene's biggest crossover story.
MetalcoreAlternative metal
Up the irons: metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985.
Heavy metal
Pennsylvania's reliably heavy melodic rock: brooding verses, enormous choruses, and a catalogue that never chased a trend because the formula never stopped working.
Hard rockPost-grunge
Riff-and-groove lifers, with Neil Fallon hollering tall tales over the most reliably heavy live band in American rock, three decades without phoning one in.
Stoner-rockHard-rock
B-Real's nasal snarl over DJ Muggs's murk: the group that made stoner rap a genre with a flag, 'Insane in the Brain' still a jump-along ritual.
Hip-hopRap-rock
Lajon Witherspoon's soul-trained voice over grinding alt-metal is the reason they outlasted the scene, and they have the warmest crowd in heavy music.
Alt-metalNu-metal
The top-hatted Guns N' Roses guitarist's long-running solo band, with Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy on vocals: big riffs, bigger solos, and a set that reaches back to 'Sweet Child O' Mine'.
Hard rockRock
Firestarters, still. The UK's rave-punk institution hits harder than bands half their age, three decades of menace intact.
Rave-punkElectronic
Radio rock that pivoted from swagger to piano ballads and kept the audience either way, from Vancouver pragmatists with hooks to spare.
Post-grunge
Welsh metalcore from Bridgend, Matt Tuck's twin-guitar leads and soaring choruses unchanged in spirit since 'Tears Don't Fall' made them a 2000s fixture.
MetalcoreHeavy metal
Maryland pop-punk built around twins Joel and Benji Madden, whose early-2000s run of radio singles defined the era's mall-punk sound.
Alternative
The 1990s' designated national panic: glam-industrial theatre staged with genuine pop instincts underneath, 'The Beautiful People' still a siren.
Industrial-metalShock-rock
Horror-movie theatrics welded to industrial-tinged metalcore, with corpse paint, synths, and choruses built for an arena singalong, Halloween as a year-round genre.
Gothic metalcoreIndustrial metal
American artist who turned an uncanny, too-sweet internet persona into genuine metal credibility, with bubblegum melody and blast beats sharing the same song.
Rock
Thick, downtuned '90s worship that a whole generation found late and adopted wholesale, 'Youngest Daughter' the unlikely viral hymn.
GrungeAlt-rock
Sacramento hard rockers who came up in the late-'80s boom with bluesier instincts than their glam peers, and whose acoustic live take on 'Signs' became a hit.
Hard rock
Seattle heavyweights whose sludgy riffs and eerie stacked harmonies made 'Man in the Box' and 'Rooster' the darkest hits of the grunge years.
GrungeAlternative metalRock
NOLA sludge supergroup with Phil Anselmo fronting molasses-slow riffs built for a room with no air conditioning, swamp-heavy doom from scene royalty.
Sludge metalDoom
Birmingham band that codified the twin-lead guitar attack and leather-and-studs look of heavy metal, with Rob Halford's operatic scream still out front.
Metal
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift, with Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
MetalcoreShoegaze-metal
Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore: Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
Post-hardcorePop-punk
Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock is smoky, heavy, and chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
Hard rockAlternative rock
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone, Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
Hard rock
Nashville quartet working slow-burning distortion, out-of-body blues and heavy psychedelia into long, meditative jams since 2012.
Hard rock
North Carolina crossover veterans who moved from hardcore into thick Southern sludge and stayed there, with Sabbath swing filtered through a punk's impatience.
Sludge metalCrossover thrash
Late-90s alt-rock band behind 'Inside Out' and 'Here's to the Night', with Max Collins's wordy, wry lyrics over big radio-ready guitars.
Alternative
'Hey Man Nice Shot' is the hit, and Richard Patrick's industrial-rock sneer is intact, with machine-tooled riffs from NIN's family tree.
Industrial-rockAlt-rock
Illinois duo where Scott Lucas plays a guitar rigged with a bass pickup to cover the low end beside a drummer. Heavy, sardonic rock behind 'Bound for the Floor.'
Rock
South Florida crew who came up in the nu-metal years and simply never stopped touring, with Elias Soriano's bark over groove-heavy riffing, two decades deep.
Hard rock
Late-nineties American heavy rock act that came up through the post-grunge and alt-metal churn and never softened the riffs.
Hard rock
Asava
Rock
Los Angeles hard rock built on Josh Todd's rasp and unreconstructed sleaze-rock riffing, a late-nineties holdout still trading in the same swagger.
Hard rock
Forever attached to one enormous song, and entirely comfortable with that. 'Bodies' still detonates, and the rest of the set hits harder than expected.
Nu metalHard rock
The Nashville project of Kentucky-born singer Addison, whose voice jumps from low growls to piercing screams to clean melody over deathcore weight, first heard in clips filmed in her car.
Deathcore
Detroit alternative rock band from the mid '90s modern rock boom, remembered for 'Plowed' and 'Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain)'.
Alternative rockPost-grunge
Atlanta band reviving the drop-tuned bounce of early-2000s nu-metal with modern weight, built around Diamond Rowe's groove-heavy guitar work.
Metal
Classically trained Finnish cellists who started by covering Metallica and never stopped headbanging, making symphonic metal where the strings genuinely shred.
Cello metalSymphonic metal
Los Angeles blues rock band with a swaggering '70s sound, the first unsigned act to top Billboard's mainstream rock chart with 'When I'm Gone'.
Hard rockRock
Intergalactic latex monsters spraying fake blood on the front rows since 1984, with thrash chops under the costumes. Wear a poncho.
Shock metal
Black Sabbath covers performed by fast-food mascots, exactly as great as it sounds, with lyrics rewritten as fast-food satire.
Parody metal
The Flys
Alternative
Mongolian group welding throat singing and horsehead fiddle to heavy riffs, a sound they call hunnu rock, with steppe tradition at stadium volume.
Metal
The headliners
Korn · The band that wrote the nu metal rulebook: down-tuned seven-string grooves, slap bass and Jonathan Davis's raw, confessional howl, from 'Blind' to 'Freak on a Leash'. Down-tuned seven-string grooves and slap bass, Friday's closer.
Bad Omens · Noah Sebastian's project drifted from metalcore toward something moodier and far more electronic, and got much bigger for it. 'Just Pretend' made them the scene's biggest crossover story. Metalcore turned moody and electronic, closing Saturday.
Iron Maiden · Up the irons: metal's greatest live institution, Eddie included, galloping twin leads and Bruce Dickinson sprinting the stage like it's 1985. Galloping twin leads and the Sunday closing set.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Loathe · Liverpool metalcore that drifts into shoegaze.
Showing Teeth · Nashville deathcore with a voice that runs from low growls to high screams.
Superheaven · Thick, downtuned 90s-style grunge.
The Warning · Hard rock from three sisters in Monterrey.
Other acts worth planning around
The Prodigy · UK rave-punk, a rare electronic act on this bill.
Alice In Chains · Sludgy riffs under eerie stacked harmonies.
The HU · Mongolian throat singing and horsehead fiddle over heavy riffs.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (May 14)
Korn, Breaking Benjamin, The Prodigy, Cypress Hill, Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Clutch + 9 more
Saturday lineup (May 15)
Bad Omens, Good Charlotte, Marilyn Manson, Motionless In White, Bullet For My Valentine, Poppy + 8 more
Sunday lineup (May 16)
Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Judas Priest, Sleeping With Sirens, The Pretty Reckless, Down + 8 more
Boardwalk Rock 2027 lineup FAQ
When is Boardwalk Rock 2027?
Friday May 14 to Sunday May 16, 2027. Gates open at 12pm and close at 11pm each day.
Where is Boardwalk Rock held?
On the beach at the Ocean City Inlet in Ocean City, Maryland.
Who is headlining Boardwalk Rock 2027?
Korn on Friday, Bad Omens on Saturday and Iron Maiden on Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
43 acts across the three days.
Is Boardwalk Rock all ages?
Yes. Children 8 and under get in free with a ticket-holding adult, though Platinum and Ultimate have their own rules for kids.
Are day-by-day lineups or set times published?
The day split is out, so every act has a day. Set times are not published yet.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches, with reasons.
Who plays Friday at Boardwalk Rock 2027?
Friday, May 14: Korn, Breaking Benjamin, The Prodigy, Cypress Hill, Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Clutch, plus 9 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Boardwalk Rock 2027?
Saturday, May 15: Bad Omens, Good Charlotte, Marilyn Manson, Motionless In White, Bullet For My Valentine, Poppy, plus 8 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Boardwalk Rock 2027?
Sunday, May 16: Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Judas Priest, Sleeping With Sirens, The Pretty Reckless, Down, plus 8 more acts.
What time does Boardwalk Rock 2027 start and end?
Gates open at 12pm and close at 11pm each day.
When is Boardwalk Rock 2028?
Not announced yet. This page carries Boardwalk Rock 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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