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Welcome to Rockville 2027 Lineup

Four days of rock and metal at the Daytona International Speedway across five stages, with Korn, Bad Omens, Pierce The Veil and Blink-182 closing the four nights.

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About Welcome to Rockville 2027

Welcome to Rockville 2027 runs Thursday May 6 to Sunday May 9 at the Daytona International Speedway, four days of rock and metal across five stages. Korn closes Thursday, Bad Omens Friday, Pierce The Veil Saturday and Blink-182 Sunday.

The 145-act bill is deep and wide. Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Judas Priest, The Prodigy, The Offspring and $UICIDEBOY$ sit in the second row, and heavier sets come from Meshuggah, Testament, Machine Head and Crowbar. Post-hardcore and emo get a long run too, with Circa Survive, Thursday, Saosin and Dashboard Confessional, and Steve-O and Mac Sabbath are on it as well. Every act has a day, but set times are not out yet.

Expect metal, rock, metalcore and post-hardcore across 145 acts.

Updated November 10, 2026

At a glance

Dates
–Thursday to Sunday, four days
Where
Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL
Lineup
145 acts
Hours
Gate times are still to be announced. Usually gates open between 11am and noon.
Ages
All ages. Everyone needs a full price festival pass regardless of age, and the festival warns of an adult environment, with parental discretion advised.
Passes
All-in prices with fees included: 4-Day GA $470, 4-Day VIP $920 and 4-Day Daytona Owners Club $2,400. 2-Day GA is $290.

Checked against the festival's site on November 7, 2026.

Welcome to Rockville 2027 lineup & schedule: all 145 acts

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Stage
Genre
Tier
Show145 of 145 acts

Headliner · Thursday · Apex Stage

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'.

Nu metalMetal

Headliner · Friday · Apex Stage

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.

MetalcoreAlternative metal

Headliner · Saturday · Apex Stage

Pierce The Veil

San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.

Post-hardcoreEmo

Headliner · Sunday · Apex Stage

Blink-182

San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires.

Rock

Undercard · Wednesday · Campground Pre-Party

Jinjer

Ukrainian groove and progressive metal in odd-time grooves, built around Tatiana Shmayluk's switch from a guttural roar to a clean, soulful voice mid-song.

Progressive metalGroove metal

Top billing · Thursday · Apex Stage

Alice In Chains

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

Undercard · Thursday · Inferno Stage

B.o.B

Atlanta rapper and multi-instrumentalist whose 2010 crossover run paired rap verses with big pop hooks on 'Nothin' on You' and 'Airplanes.' Picks up a guitar as readily as a mic.

Hip-hop

Undercard · Thursday · Octane Stage

Bullet For My Valentine

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

Undercard · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Cobra Starship

New York dance-rock band mixing electropop, pop-punk and synth-pop, behind the Hot 100 top 10 hits 'Good Girls Go Bad' and 'You Make Me Feel...'.

Pop-punkSynth-popDance

Top billing · Thursday · Apex Stage

Cypress Hill

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

Undercard · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Dashboard Confessional

Emo's original singalong leader, Chris Carrabba, conducts thousands through 'Hands Down' and 'Screaming Infidelities', acoustic confession turned mass ritual.

EmoAcoustic

Top billing · Thursday · Octane Stage

Faith No More

Mike Patton and the San Francisco band that mixed funk, metal, rap and lounge-singer theatrics into 'Epic' and 'Midlife Crisis', a template alternative metal borrowed from for years.

Alt-metalAlt-rock

Undercard · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Forever The Sickest Kids

Dallas pop-punk band from the MySpace era, all synths, gang vocals and sugar rush choruses, best known for 'Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)'.

Pop punk

Undercard · Thursday · Vortex Stage

HANABIE.

Tokyo metalcore band of four women who call their sound harajuku-core: breakdowns, screams and bright pop styling at once.

MetalcoreMetal

Undercard · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Hey Monday

West Palm Beach band fronted by Cassadee Pope, whose 2008 debut Hold On Tight and single 'How You Love Me Now' captured glossy emo-pop at its peak.

Alternative

Undercard · Thursday · Vortex Stage

Kim Dracula

Australian shapeshifter who lurches between jazz trumpet, rap, nu metal and full-throated screams, sometimes in one verse, first noticed for a chaotic take on 'Paparazzi'.

Alternative metalNu metal

Top billing · Thursday · Octane Stage

Marilyn Manson

The 1990s' designated national panic: glam-industrial theatre staged with genuine pop instincts underneath, 'The Beautiful People' still a siren.

Industrial-metalShock-rock

Undercard · Thursday · Garage Stage

Of Mice & Men

Southern California metalcore band who went from breakdown-heavy early records to the nu metal-tinged grooves of 'Restoring Force', and kept the weight after a change of singer.

Metalcore

Undercard · Thursday · Apex Stage

P.O.D.

'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' are the calling cards of San Diego's nu-metal survivors, whose positivity stayed intact through every scene cycle.

Nu-metalReggae-rock

Undercard · Thursday · Vortex Stage

Poppy

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

Undercard · Thursday · Vortex Stage

Rico Nasty

Sugar-trap screamo-rap pioneer with DMV hometown chaos, joyfully unhinged, whisper-to-shriek whiplash as a signature and a live show running on pure adrenaline.

RapPunk-rap

Top billing · Thursday · Apex Stage

Seether

South African-born post-grunge band behind 'Broken', 'Remedy' and a long run of rock radio number ones, all heavy hooks and Shaun Morgan's ragged voice.

Post-grungeHard rockRock

Undercard · Thursday · Octane Stage

She Wants Revenge

Deadpan Valley post-punk that wore its Joy Division debt openly and got a genuinely great single out of it. 'Tear You Apart' endures.

Post-punkDarkwave

Undercard · Thursday · Garage Stage

The Amity Affliction

Queensland metalcore veterans two decades deep, alternating screamed verses with huge clean choruses, and heavy music that never hides its emotional stakes.

Metal

Top billing · Friday · Octane Stage

$UICIDEBOY$

Grimy, Memphis-indebted rap about self-destruction, built into one of the largest underground followings in music, where G59 loyalty runs religious.

Underground hip-hopTrap metal

Top billing · Friday · Apex Stage

Bilmuri

Johnny Franck's absurdist country-core project gone legitimately huge, with saxophones, breakdowns, and jokes played tight enough to work as straight-up bangers.

Country-corePost-genre

Top billing · Friday · Inferno Stage

Circa Survive

Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited, soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.

Post-hardcoreProg-rock

Undercard · Friday · Garage Stage

Coal Chamber

Spooky-kid nu-metal with detuned bounce and a goth streak the genre mostly abandoned, bringing 'Loco'-era heaviness back from the grave.

Nu-metal

Top billing · Friday · Apex Stage

Ice Nine Kills

Horror-movie metalcore staged as full theatre, with every song a slasher reference and every set closer to a production than a gig.

MetalcoreHorror punk

Undercard · Friday · Apex Stage

Imminence

Swedish metalcore where Eddie Berg's violin plays alongside the breakdowns, as melancholy as it is heavy.

Metalcore

Top billing · Friday · Vortex Stage

Judas Priest

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

Undercard · Friday · Garage Stage

Kittie

Teenage Ontario nu-metal that hardened into a genuinely heavy career. Morgan Lander's growl was never a novelty, and the comeback proved it.

Alt-metalGroove-metal

Top billing · Friday · Octane Stage

Knocked Loose

Kentucky hardcore built on the meanest two-step riffs going, with Bryan Garris's shriek cutting clean over the top: heaviness that crossed over without softening.

HardcoreMetalcore

Undercard · Friday · Vortex Stage

Machine Head

Oakland groove-metal veterans, with 'Davidian' still an extinction event and three decades of down-tuned survival behind it.

Groove metal

Undercard · Friday · Apex Stage

President

Masked, anonymous British rock outfit fronted by a figure styled as The President, pairing heavy riffs with soaring, pop-minded choruses.

Rock

Undercard · Friday · Inferno Stage

Saosin

The Anthony Green-fronted EP is the stuff of scene legend and the live show still leans on it, with 'Seven Years' guaranteed to level the tent.

Post-hardcore

Undercard · Friday · Vortex Stage

Steel Panther

Sunset Strip glam metal played absolutely straight musically and absolutely not lyrically: spandex, shred solos and some of the filthiest jokes in rock.

Glam metalHard rock

Undercard · Friday · Octane Stage

Steve-O

Jackass stuntman whose live shows pair stand-up storytelling with stomach-turning physical stunts performed in front of the crowd.

Undercard · Friday · Inferno Stage

Thursday

'Full Collapse' pioneers who were the bridge between hardcore and emo, still vital, with Geoff Rickly's yelp intact.

Post-hardcoreEmo

Undercard · Friday · Octane Stage

Wage War

Clean-chorus metalcore engineered for the big room, with breakdowns placed exactly where you want them. Ocala precision, radio ambition.

Metalcore

Undercard · Friday · Octane Stage

Waka Flocka Flame

Atlanta rapper whose bellowed hooks and blown-out trap production defined a whole era of strip-club rap, with 'Hard in da Paint,' 'No Hands,' and a voice built for shouting along.

Hip-hop

Top billing · Saturday · Octane Stage

311

Amber-toned reggae-rock positivity out of Omaha: three decades of hybrid grooves, rap-rock verses, and sunny choruses that made them a permanent institution of the summer shed circuit.

Alt-rockReggae-rock

Undercard · Saturday · Vortex Stage

Carpenter Brut

French producer whose darksynth plays like an '80s horror soundtrack with a metal band's adrenaline, performed live with guitar and drums behind the synths.

SynthwaveElectronic

Undercard · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Clutch

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

Undercard · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Crowbar

New Orleans sludge metal institution led by Kirk Windstein, slow and crushingly heavy since the early 90s.

MetalSludge metal

Undercard · Saturday · Octane Stage

Eve 6

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

Undercard · Saturday · Octane Stage

Everlast

House of Pain's frontman turned bluesman: 'What It's Like' still lands heavy, acoustic grit and rap cadence sharing one gravel voice.

Hip-hopBlues-rock

Top billing · Saturday · Apex Stage

Good Charlotte

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

Undercard · Saturday · Vortex Stage

In This Moment

Maria Brink's gothic ritual-metal, with costumes, choirs, and 'Whore' still searing, a stage show closer to dark ceremony than concert.

Theatrical metal

Undercard · Saturday

Loathe

Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift, with Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.

MetalcoreShoegaze-metal

Undercard · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Meshuggah

Swedish extreme metal band whose lurching, mathematical polyrhythms on down-tuned guitars more or less invented djent.

Metal

Undercard · Saturday · Garage Stage

Sleep Theory

New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end, and the format's next arena act in waiting.

Alt-metalPost-hardcore

Top billing · Saturday · Octane Stage

Stone Temple Pilots

Grunge-era hitmakers with a glam streak their peers were too earnest to attempt: 'Plush' through 'Interstate Love Song', hooks for days.

GrungeAlt-rock

Undercard · Saturday · Octane Stage

Sugar Ray

Orange County band that began in funk-metal before 'Fly' and 'Every Morning' made them a fixture of late-'90s summer radio, fronted by Mark McGrath.

Rock

Undercard · Saturday · Garage Stage

Sullivan King

Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep, the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.

DubstepMetal

Undercard · Saturday · Apex Stage

Superheaven

Thick, downtuned '90s worship that a whole generation found late and adopted wholesale, 'Youngest Daughter' the unlikely viral hymn.

GrungeAlt-rock

Undercard · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Testament

Bay Area thrash veterans from the genre's first wave, still built around Chuck Billy's roar and Alex Skolnick's lead guitar.

MetalThrash metal

Top billing · Saturday · Octane Stage

The Offspring

Thirty years of hooks that snuck genuine punk speed onto daytime radio without anyone noticing, and the catalog is basically all singles.

PunkSkate punk

Top billing · Saturday · Vortex Stage

The Prodigy

Firestarters, still. The UK's rave-punk institution hits harder than bands half their age, three decades of menace intact.

Rave-punkElectronic

Top billing · Saturday · Vortex Stage

Till Lindemann

Rammstein's frontman on his own: the same booming baritone and pummeling industrial riffs, pushed further into provocation and theater.

Industrial metalMetal

Undercard · Saturday · Apex Stage

Violent Vira

Nu-metal revivalism from a newer solo act, leaning on the genre's bounce rather than its irony, and self-made and rising.

Nu-metalAlt-metal

Undercard · Sunday · Inferno Stage

Black Veil Brides

Warpaint-and-leather anthems: the black parade's glammer cousins, with stadium-goth choruses delivered with total conviction and eyeliner-era devotion still marching.

MetalcoreGlam metal

Top billing · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Danzig

The Evil Elvis, with Misfits mythology and 'Mother' brooding in the flesh, blues-metal croon delivered from rock's darkest pulpit.

Dark rockMetal

Undercard · Sunday · Inferno Stage

Escape The Fate

Vegas post-hardcore that survived a frontman swap and a decade of scene churn intact, with arena-scene hooks and a survivor's stubbornness.

Post-hardcore

Undercard · Sunday · Octane Stage

From Ashes To New

Rap-rock revivalists trading verses between a singer and an MC, straight out of the 2000s playbook, with updated production and the same adrenaline.

Rap-rockAlt-metal

Top billing · Sunday · Apex Stage

Hot Mulligan

Midwest emo's chaotic favorites bring screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.

EmoPop-punk

Top billing · Sunday · Octane Stage

I Prevail

Michigan metalcore that swings between radio-size clean choruses and full-throated breakdowns, Grammy-nominated for 2019's Trauma.

MetalcorePost-hardcore

Undercard · Sunday · Garage Stage

Kublai Khan TX

Texas hardcore at its most punishing, with mosh calls that carry a message and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.

HardcoreMetalcore

Undercard · Sunday · Garage Stage

Lil Jon

The architect of crunk, and a DJ set that is essentially two decades of shouted ad-libs delivered at maximum volume.

CrunkHip hop

Undercard · Sunday · Octane Stage

Magnolia Park

Orlando pop-punk that pulls freely from hip-hop and hyperpop and refuses to pick a lane, with genre loyalty traded for pure momentum.

Pop punkAlternative

Top billing · Sunday · Apex Stage

mgk

Cleveland's rap-to-pop-punk convert, who is tabloid-famous, genre-fluid, and louder about his feelings than anyone in the arena.

Pop-punkHip-hop

Top billing · Sunday · Octane Stage

Papa Roach

'Last Resort' to now, nu-metal survivors who never stopped filling fields, with Jacoby Shaddix still working every inch of stage.

Nu-metalAlt-rock

Undercard · Sunday · Garage Stage

PeelingFlesh

Slam played with a hip-hop swagger: gurgles, gore, and breakdowns tuned to the floor, the internet's favorite new heaviness.

Slam-metalDeathcore

Undercard · Sunday · Apex Stage

Relient K

Ohio pop-punk band who grew from goofy youth-group favorites into the earnest, melodic rock of 'Be My Escape' and 'Who I Am Hates Who I've Been'.

Pop punkRock

Undercard · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Skid Row

New Jersey hard rockers who gave the late hair metal years some teeth, with 'Youth Gone Wild', '18 and Life' and the power ballad 'I Remember You'.

Hard rockHeavy metal

Undercard · Sunday · Octane Stage

The Pretty Reckless

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

On the bill · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Cute Is What We Aim For

Buffalo pop-punk band whose wordy, sharp-tongued 2006 debut 'The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch' was a Warped Tour-era staple.

Pop punkEmo

On the bill · Thursday · Vortex Stage

DeathbyRomy

Gothic pop with metallic edges: theatrical dark-pop vocals over production that keeps one boot in the metal scene.

Dark pop

On the bill · Thursday · Apex Stage

Drowning Pool

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

On the bill · Thursday · Octane Stage

Fear Factory

Industrial metal pioneers whose machine-gun precision riffs and alternating growled and clean vocals on 'Demanufacture' shaped a generation of heavy bands.

Industrial metalMetal

On the bill · Thursday · Inferno Stage

Hellogoodbye

Forrest Kline's Huntington Beach project, whose 'Here (In Your Arms)' put Auto-Tuned synth-pop and ukulele charm on mid-2000s radio. Later records turned warmer and more acoustic.

Alternative

On the bill · Thursday · Garage Stage

Invent Animate

Texas metalcore band with an atmospheric, progressive streak: shimmering guitar textures that open up between punishing breakdowns.

MetalcoreProgressive metal

On the bill · Thursday · Garage Stage

Kingdom of Giants

Sacramento band pairing heavy breakdowns with atmospheric, melodic choruses, trading harsh and clean vocals across the same song.

Metal

On the bill · Thursday · Octane Stage

Powerman 5000

Spider One's long-running industrial metal outfit, built on sci-fi B-movie imagery and pneumatic riffs, with 'When Worlds Collide' still detonating three decades on.

Hard rock

On the bill · Thursday · Garage Stage

Showing Teeth

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

On the bill · Thursday · Garage Stage

Silent Planet

Southern California metalcore built around Garrett Russell's densely literary lyrics: theology, trauma and history screamed over restless time signatures.

Metal

On the bill · Thursday · Vortex Stage

South Arcade

British band reviving 2000s alt-rock gloss with a genuinely modern pop sensibility, with Y2K crunch and algorithm-era hooks.

Alt-rockNu-metal

On the bill · Thursday · Garage Stage

Static Dress

Leeds band reviving the jagged mid-2000s screamo sound, wrapped in a self-made visual world of cryptic artwork and horror-tinged videos.

Hard rock

On the bill · Thursday · Vortex Stage

VANA

Auckland artist welding big pop choruses to heavy metal riffs, with a dark, theatrical edge she frames as her own 'darkcore' sound.

Metal

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

After The Burial

Early djent architects out of Minneapolis, with eight-string polyrhythms and huge grooves whose low end still lands harder live than any recording has managed to capture.

DjentProgressive metalcore

On the bill · Friday · Inferno Stage

Armor for Sleep

A concept record about being dead, delivered with more atmosphere than its scene usually allowed. 'What to Do When You Are Dead' remains a mid-2000s emo cult document.

EmoAlt-rock

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

Ded

Arizona band bringing back nu metal's downtuned bounce and adding metalcore weight, with Joe Cotela switching between snarled verses and sung hooks.

Hard rock

On the bill · Friday · Vortex Stage

Dirty Honey

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

On the bill · Friday · Inferno Stage

Emarosa

Post-hardcore turned silk-smooth pop-rock, with one of the scene's most distinctive clean vocals: a reinvention so complete the back catalog sounds like another band.

Post-hardcorePop-rock

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

Fit For An Autopsy

New Jersey deathcore band whose crushing, groove-driven records carry sharp social anger and a melodic, almost Gojira-like sense of scale.

DeathcoreMetal

On the bill · Friday · Octane Stage

Ho99o9

Newark-born duo smashing hardcore punk, industrial noise and rap together, with a live show as chaotic as the records.

PunkHip-hopIndustrial

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

Infected Rain

Moldovan band fronted by Lena Scissorhands, whose switching between clean singing, rapped cadences and full-throat screams anchors their groove-heavy metal.

Metal

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

Lacuna Coil

Milan's gothic metal veterans, built on the dual vocals of Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro, who broke through with 'Heaven's a Lie' and a heavy cover of 'Enjoy the Silence'.

Gothic metalAlternative metal

On the bill · Friday · Inferno Stage

Lower Definition

San Diego post-hardcore band built on angular, progressive riffing and theatrical vocals, best known for 2008's The Greatest of All Time Lows.

Rock

On the bill · Friday · Vortex Stage

Mac Sabbath

Black Sabbath covers performed by fast-food mascots, exactly as great as it sounds, with lyrics rewritten as fast-food satire.

Parody metal

On the bill · Friday · Vortex Stage

Metal Church

American metal institution going since 1980, bridging traditional heavy metal and the speed of early thrash, and riff-driven, high-register and remarkably durable.

On the bill · Friday · Vortex Stage

Quiet Riot

Los Angeles glam-metal veterans whose 1983 album Metal Health became the first heavy metal record to top the Billboard 200, carried by their Slade cover 'Cum On Feel the Noize'.

Hard rock

On the bill · Friday · Garage Stage

Sylosis

English thrash and metalcore band led by guitarist and singer Josh Middleton, riff-dense and technical.

MetalMetalcore

On the bill · Friday · Inferno Stage

The Fall of Troy

Washington trio who made finger-tapped chaos and lurching time signatures into something catchy, with Thomas Erak's guitar as lead instrument and wrecking ball.

Rock

On the bill · Saturday · Octane Stage

American Hi-Fi

'Flavor of the Weak' and a catalog of crunchy Y2K pop-rock: still flying the flannel, with the TRL-era hooks fully intact.

Pop-punkRock

On the bill · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Blood Incantation

Denver death metal by way of Tangerine Dream, cosmic, patient, and the most critically adored band in the genre.

Death metalProgressive metal

On the bill · Saturday · Vortex Stage

Diggy Graves

American rapper dragging horrorcore darkness and emo confession into heavy, guitar-driven tracks, with verses that tip over into screamed punk aggression.

Hip-hop

On the bill · Saturday · Apex Stage

Lady Radiator

New Jersey two-piece formed in 2007, revived by a viral TikTok resurgence and back on Interscope with loud, high-intensity rock.

RockAlt-rock

On the bill · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Nailbomb

Max Cavalera's mid-'90s industrial thrash project with Alex Newport, whose lone studio album 'Point Blank' became a cult touchstone of metal and noise.

Industrial metalThrash metal

On the bill · Saturday · Vortex Stage

Orgy

Synth-forward nu-metal in vinyl trousers. The New Order cover was the hit, but the originals leaned genuinely cold and chrome-plated.

Industrial-rockNu-metal

On the bill · Saturday · Garage Stage

Point North

Southern California rock band blending pop-punk energy with heavier, modern alt-metal production and arena-sized hooks.

Alternative rockPop punk

On the bill · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Slomosa

Norwegian band playing what they call tundra rock: warm, fuzzed-out desert rock grooves with big, sing-along melodies.

Stoner rockRock

On the bill · Saturday · Inferno Stage

Soulfly

Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura vehicle, still fusing tribal percussion with pure groove-metal weight, with three decades of roar undiminished.

Groove metalNu-metal

On the bill · Saturday · Vortex Stage

Stabbing Westward

Illinois band that carried industrial rock onto 1990s alt-rock radio with 'Shame' and 'Save Yourself,' setting Christopher Hall's anguished vocals over grinding synths.

Rock

On the bill · Saturday · Garage Stage

The Funeral Portrait

Atlanta theatrical rock outfit with a taste for gothic showmanship: post-hardcore heft dressed in ringmaster flourish.

Rock

On the bill · Sunday · Garage Stage

Boundaries

Connecticut band working the heavy end of metalcore, with hardcore-scene pacing underneath the riffs and a pit-first approach to arrangement.

Metal

On the bill · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Corrosion of Conformity

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

On the bill · Sunday · Inferno Stage

Crown The Empire

Dallas metalcore band built on theatrical concept records, swinging between soaring clean choruses and full-force screams.

MetalcorePost-hardcore

On the bill · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Helmet

Page Hamilton's precision-machined downstrokes powered the band a generation of nu-metal quietly ripped off, and they're still tighter than all of them.

Alt-metalPost-hardcore

On the bill · Sunday · Inferno Stage

I See Stars

One of the bands that defined electronicore, welding trance synths and dance drops to post-hardcore, maximalist and unapologetically melodic.

Rock

On the bill · Sunday · Garage Stage

Malevolence

Sheffield crew welding Southern-tinged groove riffs to hardcore beatdowns, with a bellowed lead vocal cut by occasional clean hooks on Self Supremacy and Malicious Intent.

Metal

On the bill · Sunday · Inferno Stage

Palisades

New Jersey post-hardcore band that fuses heavy riffs with electronic production and pop-sized hooks.

Post-hardcoreMetalcore

On the bill · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Shadows Fall

Massachusetts band at the heart of the early 2000s American metal wave, mixing thrash solos with hardcore punch on 'The War Within'.

MetalcoreThrash metal

On the bill · Sunday · Inferno Stage

TX2

Fort Collins solo project pairing pop-punk hooks with heavier emo-rock, with lyrics that dwell on mental health and personal struggle.

Rock

On the bill · Sunday · Garage Stage

Varials

Philadelphia band built on crushing breakdowns and slow, lurching grooves, pulling metalcore toward downtempo heaviness and a bleak atmosphere.

Metal

On the bill · Sunday · Vortex Stage

Wind Rose

Italian power metal built around dwarven mythology and marching, hammer-swinging choruses, with folk melody welded to symphonic heft.

Metal

The headliners

  • Blink-182 · San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires. Sunday's closer, fast pop punk with Travis Barker's drumming underneath.
  • 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'. Thursday's closer, the down-tuned seven-string groove that defined nu metal.
  • Pierce The Veil · San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback. Saturday's closer, San Diego post-hardcore with big, swooning choruses.
  • 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. Friday's closer, metalcore that turned moody and electronic.

Up-and-comers to catch early

  • Sleep Theory · Memphis alt-metal built on a soulful clean voice and a very modern low end.
  • HANABIE. · Tokyo metalcore with breakdowns, screams and bright pop hooks.
  • Loathe · Liverpool band swinging between crushing metalcore and shoegaze drift.
  • Slomosa · Warm, fuzzed-out Norwegian desert rock.
  • Blood Incantation · Patient, cosmic Denver death metal with synth leanings.

Other acts worth planning around

  • Faith No More · Funk, metal, rap and lounge theatrics in one band, Mike Patton out front.
  • Judas Priest · The twin-lead guitar attack heavy metal was built on.
  • The Prodigy · UK rave-punk that still hits like a band half its age.

The lineup by day

Jump to: Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday · Sunday

Welcome to Rockville 2027 lineup FAQ

When is Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Thursday May 6 to Sunday May 9, 2027.

Where is Welcome to Rockville held?

The Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Who is headlining Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Korn on Thursday, Bad Omens on Friday, Pierce The Veil on Saturday and Blink-182 on Sunday.

How many acts are playing?

145 acts are on the 2027 bill.

Is Welcome to Rockville all ages?

Yes, but everyone needs a full price festival pass whatever their age, and the festival advises parental discretion.

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 Wednesday at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Wednesday, May 5: Jinjer.

Who plays Thursday at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Thursday, May 6: Korn, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Marilyn Manson, Cypress Hill, Seether, plus 31 more acts.

Who plays Friday at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Friday, May 7: Bad Omens, $UICIDEBOY$, Knocked Loose, Judas Priest, Ice Nine Kills, Bilmuri, plus 29 more acts.

Who plays Saturday at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Saturday, May 8: Pierce The Veil, The Offspring, The Prodigy, Good Charlotte, Till Lindemann, 311, plus 31 more acts.

Who plays Sunday at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Sunday, May 9: Blink-182, Papa Roach, mgk, Danzig, I Prevail, Hot Mulligan, plus 29 more acts.

What time does Welcome to Rockville 2027 start and end?

Gate times are still to be announced. Usually gates open between 11am and noon.

What are the stages at Welcome to Rockville 2027?

6 stages: Apex Stage, Octane Stage, Vortex Stage, Inferno Stage, Garage Stage, Campground Pre-Party.

When is Welcome to Rockville 2028?

Not announced yet. This page carries Welcome to Rockville 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.

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Past years

Welcome to Rockville 2026 lineup

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