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
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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.
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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
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
San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act, the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
Post-hardcoreEmo
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
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
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
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
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
A solo billing built entirely around two decades of nu-metal and groove-metal frontman work, with Mudvayne intensity and HELLYEAH swagger in one set.
Nu-metalGroove metal
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
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
Emo's original singalong leader, Chris Carrabba, conducts thousands through 'Hands Down' and 'Screaming Infidelities', acoustic confession turned mass ritual.
EmoAcoustic
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
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
Tokyo metalcore band of four women who call their sound harajuku-core: breakdowns, screams and bright pop styling at once.
MetalcoreMetal
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
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
The 1990s' designated national panic: glam-industrial theatre staged with genuine pop instincts underneath, 'The Beautiful People' still a siren.
Industrial-metalShock-rock
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
'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
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
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
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
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
Queensland metalcore veterans two decades deep, alternating screamed verses with huge clean choruses, and heavy music that never hides its emotional stakes.
Metal
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
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
Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited, soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
Post-hardcoreProg-rock
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
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
Swedish metalcore where Eddie Berg's violin plays alongside the breakdowns, as melancholy as it is heavy.
Metalcore
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
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
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
Oakland groove-metal veterans, with 'Davidian' still an extinction event and three decades of down-tuned survival behind it.
Groove metal
Masked, anonymous British rock outfit fronted by a figure styled as The President, pairing heavy riffs with soaring, pop-minded choruses.
Rock
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
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
Jackass stuntman whose live shows pair stand-up storytelling with stomach-turning physical stunts performed in front of the crowd.
'Full Collapse' pioneers who were the bridge between hardcore and emo, still vital, with Geoff Rickly's yelp intact.
Post-hardcoreEmo
Clean-chorus metalcore engineered for the big room, with breakdowns placed exactly where you want them. Ocala precision, radio ambition.
Metalcore
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
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
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
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
New Orleans sludge metal institution led by Kirk Windstein, slow and crushingly heavy since the early 90s.
MetalSludge metal
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
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
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
Maria Brink's gothic ritual-metal, with costumes, choirs, and 'Whore' still searing, a stage show closer to dark ceremony than concert.
Theatrical metal
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift, with Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
MetalcoreShoegaze-metal
Swedish extreme metal band whose lurching, mathematical polyrhythms on down-tuned guitars more or less invented djent.
Metal
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
Grunge-era hitmakers with a glam streak their peers were too earnest to attempt: 'Plush' through 'Interstate Love Song', hooks for days.
GrungeAlt-rock
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
Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep, the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.
DubstepMetal
Thick, downtuned '90s worship that a whole generation found late and adopted wholesale, 'Youngest Daughter' the unlikely viral hymn.
GrungeAlt-rock
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
Thirty years of hooks that snuck genuine punk speed onto daytime radio without anyone noticing, and the catalog is basically all singles.
PunkSkate punk
Firestarters, still. The UK's rave-punk institution hits harder than bands half their age, three decades of menace intact.
Rave-punkElectronic
Rammstein's frontman on his own: the same booming baritone and pummeling industrial riffs, pushed further into provocation and theater.
Industrial metalMetal
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
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
The Evil Elvis, with Misfits mythology and 'Mother' brooding in the flesh, blues-metal croon delivered from rock's darkest pulpit.
Dark rockMetal
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
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
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
Michigan metalcore that swings between radio-size clean choruses and full-throated breakdowns, Grammy-nominated for 2019's Trauma.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
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
The architect of crunk, and a DJ set that is essentially two decades of shouted ad-libs delivered at maximum volume.
CrunkHip hop
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
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
'Last Resort' to now, nu-metal survivors who never stopped filling fields, with Jacoby Shaddix still working every inch of stage.
Nu-metalAlt-rock
Slam played with a hip-hop swagger: gurgles, gore, and breakdowns tuned to the floor, the internet's favorite new heaviness.
Slam-metalDeathcore
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
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
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
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
Gothic pop with metallic edges: theatrical dark-pop vocals over production that keeps one boot in the metal scene.
Dark pop
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
Industrial metal pioneers whose machine-gun precision riffs and alternating growled and clean vocals on 'Demanufacture' shaped a generation of heavy bands.
Industrial metalMetal
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
Texas metalcore band with an atmospheric, progressive streak: shimmering guitar textures that open up between punishing breakdowns.
MetalcoreProgressive metal
Sacramento band pairing heavy breakdowns with atmospheric, melodic choruses, trading harsh and clean vocals across the same song.
Metal
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
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
Southern California metalcore built around Garrett Russell's densely literary lyrics: theology, trauma and history screamed over restless time signatures.
Metal
British band reviving 2000s alt-rock gloss with a genuinely modern pop sensibility, with Y2K crunch and algorithm-era hooks.
Alt-rockNu-metal
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
Auckland artist welding big pop choruses to heavy metal riffs, with a dark, theatrical edge she frames as her own 'darkcore' sound.
Metal
Rock
Rock
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
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
Rock
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
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
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
New Jersey deathcore band whose crushing, groove-driven records carry sharp social anger and a melodic, almost Gojira-like sense of scale.
DeathcoreMetal
Newark-born duo smashing hardcore punk, industrial noise and rap together, with a live show as chaotic as the records.
PunkHip-hopIndustrial
Moldovan band fronted by Lena Scissorhands, whose switching between clean singing, rapped cadences and full-throat screams anchors their groove-heavy metal.
Metal
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
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
Black Sabbath covers performed by fast-food mascots, exactly as great as it sounds, with lyrics rewritten as fast-food satire.
Parody metal
American metal institution going since 1980, bridging traditional heavy metal and the speed of early thrash, and riff-driven, high-register and remarkably durable.
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
English thrash and metalcore band led by guitarist and singer Josh Middleton, riff-dense and technical.
MetalMetalcore
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
'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
Metal
Denver death metal by way of Tangerine Dream, cosmic, patient, and the most critically adored band in the genre.
Death metalProgressive metal
American rapper dragging horrorcore darkness and emo confession into heavy, guitar-driven tracks, with verses that tip over into screamed punk aggression.
Hip-hop
Metal
Pop
New Jersey two-piece formed in 2007, revived by a viral TikTok resurgence and back on Interscope with loud, high-intensity rock.
RockAlt-rock
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
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
Hard rock
Southern California rock band blending pop-punk energy with heavier, modern alt-metal production and arena-sized hooks.
Alternative rockPop punk
Norwegian band playing what they call tundra rock: warm, fuzzed-out desert rock grooves with big, sing-along melodies.
Stoner rockRock
Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura vehicle, still fusing tribal percussion with pure groove-metal weight, with three decades of roar undiminished.
Groove metalNu-metal
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
Atlanta theatrical rock outfit with a taste for gothic showmanship: post-hardcore heft dressed in ringmaster flourish.
Rock
Rock
Connecticut band working the heavy end of metalcore, with hardcore-scene pacing underneath the riffs and a pit-first approach to arrangement.
Metal
Metal
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
Dallas metalcore band built on theatrical concept records, swinging between soaring clean choruses and full-force screams.
MetalcorePost-hardcore
Christian
Metal
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
One of the bands that defined electronicore, welding trance synths and dance drops to post-hardcore, maximalist and unapologetically melodic.
Rock
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
Metal
New Jersey post-hardcore band that fuses heavy riffs with electronic production and pop-sized hooks.
Post-hardcoreMetalcore

Metal
Massachusetts band at the heart of the early 2000s American metal wave, mixing thrash solos with hardcore punch on 'The War Within'.
MetalcoreThrash metal
Rock
Fort Collins solo project pairing pop-punk hooks with heavier emo-rock, with lyrics that dwell on mental health and personal struggle.
Rock
Philadelphia band built on crushing breakdowns and slow, lurching grooves, pulling metalcore toward downtempo heaviness and a bleak atmosphere.
Metal
Italian power metal built around dwarven mythology and marching, hammer-swinging choruses, with folk melody welded to symphonic heft.
Metal
Punk
Korn, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Marilyn Manson, Cypress Hill, Seether + 31 more
Bad Omens, $UICIDEBOY$, Knocked Loose, Judas Priest, Ice Nine Kills, Bilmuri + 29 more
Pierce The Veil, The Offspring, The Prodigy, Good Charlotte, Till Lindemann, 311 + 31 more
Blink-182, Papa Roach, mgk, Danzig, I Prevail, Hot Mulligan + 29 more
Thursday May 6 to Sunday May 9, 2027.
The Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Korn on Thursday, Bad Omens on Friday, Pierce The Veil on Saturday and Blink-182 on Sunday.
145 acts are on the 2027 bill.
Yes, but everyone needs a full price festival pass whatever their age, and the festival advises parental discretion.
The day split is out, so every act has a day. Set times are not published yet.
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Wednesday, May 5: Jinjer.
Thursday, May 6: Korn, Faith No More, Alice In Chains, Marilyn Manson, Cypress Hill, Seether, plus 31 more acts.
Friday, May 7: Bad Omens, $UICIDEBOY$, Knocked Loose, Judas Priest, Ice Nine Kills, Bilmuri, plus 29 more acts.
Saturday, May 8: Pierce The Veil, The Offspring, The Prodigy, Good Charlotte, Till Lindemann, 311, plus 31 more acts.
Sunday, May 9: Blink-182, Papa Roach, mgk, Danzig, I Prevail, Hot Mulligan, plus 29 more acts.
Gate times are still to be announced. Usually gates open between 11am and noon.
6 stages: Apex Stage, Octane Stage, Vortex Stage, Inferno Stage, Garage Stage, Campground Pre-Party.
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