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Welcome to Rockville 2026 Lineup

Four days of rock and metal at the Daytona International Speedway: Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses, My Chemical Romance and Bring Me The Horizon over a 156-act bill.

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About Welcome to Rockville 2026

Welcome to Rockville took over the Daytona International Speedway for four days in May with 156 acts, the largest bill Danny Wimmer Presents puts on all year. Foo Fighters and Guns N' Roses co-headlined, with My Chemical Romance and Bring Me The Horizon taking the other two nights.

The depth is the reason to care. Below the headliners sat Five Finger Death Punch, The Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, A Day To Remember, Godsmack, Staind, Parkway Drive, Lamb of God, Yellowcard, Rise Against, All Time Low and Alice Cooper, any of which would headline a smaller festival. Underneath that ran a full extreme-metal bill: Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Lorna Shore, Carcass, Kreator, Napalm Death, Dying Fetus, Suffocation, Immolation and Deicide.

It also functions as a scene reunion. Sleeping with Sirens, Mayday Parade, Underoath, Anberlin, blessthefall, From First To Last, Senses Fail, The Wonder Years and a Flyleaf set with Lacey Sturm all played, alongside Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening and Zakk Wylde's Sabbath tribute.

Expect metal, rock, hard rock and pop-punk across 156 acts.

Updated November 10, 2026

At a glance

Dates
–Thursday to Sunday, four days
Where
Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL
Lineup
156 acts

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Day
Genre
Tier
Show156 of 156 acts

Headliner · Thursday

Guns N' Roses

The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon, Slash solos and all.

Hard rockHeavy metal

Headliner · Saturday

Bring Me The Horizon

Sheffield shape-shifters who went from feral deathcore to arena-sized electronic metalcore, with one of heavy music's most elaborate stage shows.

MetalcoreAlt-metal

Headliner · Sunday

My Chemical Romance

Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera, with marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.

EmoTheatrical rock

Headliner

Foo Fighters

Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going, with a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.

Alt-rockPost-grunge

Undercard · Thursday

Atreyu

OC metalcore originators bring 'Lip Gloss and Black' nostalgia with new-era polish, from a band that helped write the genre's melodic playbook in the first place.

Metalcore

Undercard · Thursday

Cradle of Filth

Gothic-horror black metal with orchestration, shrieks, and a theatrical streak a mile wide: extreme metal's most committed haunted-house act.

Symphonic black metal

Undercard · Thursday

Dethklok

Metalocalypse's cartoon death-metal band, real and devastating live, with Brendon Small's shred played against the animation at brutal volume.

Melodic death metal

Undercard · Thursday

Dorothy

Dorothy Martin's hard-rock vehicle, built on a voice with genuine blues grit, with riffs that swing more than they thrash and a streak of gothic Americana running underneath.

Rock

Undercard · Thursday

Story of the Year

St. Louis screamo-adjacent survivors of the early-2000s emo boom, still built around gang vocals, acrobatic stage energy and 'Until the Day I Die.'

Rock

Undercard · Thursday

The Wonder Years

Pop-punk that grew up in public, with suburban specifics rendered in novelistic detail and Dan Campbell narrating adulthood in real time.

Pop-punkEmo

Undercard · Thursday

We The Kings

'Check Yes Juliet' (MySpace-era pop-punk sunshine) and Florida warmth that never curdled, and the chorus still checks yes.

Pop-punk

Undercard · Friday

Failure

'90s space-rock that everyone else spent decades catching up to, heavy in texture rather than tempo, with 'Fantastic Planet' the cult document.

Alternative

Undercard · Friday

Kreator

Mille Petrozza's Essen institution, a cornerstone of German thrash since the early '80s and still sharpening the same blade four decades on.

Metal

Top billing · Friday

Lorna Shore

New Jersey deathcore act whose blackened, orchestral extremity broke out of the underground once Will Ramos took the mic, with vocal contortion as spectacle.

Metal

Undercard · Friday

The HU

Mongolian group welding throat singing and horsehead fiddle to heavy riffs, a sound they call hunnu rock, with steppe tradition at stadium volume.

Metal

Top billing · Friday

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

Undercard · Friday

The Warning

Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone, Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.

Hard rock

Top billing · Friday

TURNSTILE

Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.

HardcoreAlt

Undercard · Friday

Zakk Sabbath

Zakk Wylde playing Sabbath songs with reverence and absurd volume, a tribute act with a guitar hero attached, pinch harmonics included.

Doom metalHard rock

Top billing · Saturday

Breaking Benjamin

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

Top billing · Saturday

Motionless in White

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

Undercard · Saturday

Palaye Royale

Three brothers making self-described fashion-art rock, with glam theatrics wrapped around garage riffs, and one of the most devoted young fanbases in rock.

Rock

Undercard · Saturday

Plain White T's

Pop-punk lifers best known for an acoustic song that ate the world for a summer: 'Hey There Delilah' and sturdier rock behind it.

Pop-punkPop-rock

Top billing · Saturday

Simple Plan

Montreal pop-punk that took the genre fully mainstream and has never pretended otherwise, with 'I'm Just a Kid' now two generations deep.

Pop

Undercard · Saturday

Starset

Space-suit cinematic rock with sci-fi lore and radio-metal hooks, a full 'demonstration' rather than a mere concert.

Cinematic rock

Undercard · Saturday

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

Undercard · Saturday

Yelawolf

Alabama rapper who kept drifting toward country and rockabilly without ever losing the double-time flow, Slumerican to the bone.

Hip-hop

Undercard · Sunday

Architects

Brighton metalcore institution that rebuilt itself after the loss of founding drummer and chief songwriter Tom Searle, trading pit-focused aggression for something vast and cleanly engineered without losing the weight.

Metal

Top billing · Sunday

Coheed and Cambria

Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks: 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.

Prog-rockPost-hardcore

Undercard · Sunday

L.S. Dunes

A supergroup of MCR, Thursday, and Circa Survive members, playing urgent, veteran post-hardcore like a first band, not a side project.

Post-hardcore supergroup

Undercard

3OH!3

DONTTRUSTME and the rest of the MySpace-era catalog, played fully self-aware, with neon electro-rap chaos that has aged into a gleeful, shout-along riot live.

Electro-popCrunkcore

The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint, with mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.

MetalcorePop-punk

Top billing

Alice Cooper

The original shock-rock showman, with guillotines, snakes, straitjackets, and 'School's Out' forever, still running rock's greatest vaudeville horror show six decades in.

Shock rock

Top billing

All Time Low

Maryland pop-punk heroes with two decades of fast, funny, chorus-first anthems, and 'Dear Maria' hits different in home waters.

Pop punkAlternative rock

Top billing

Amon Amarth

Sweden's Viking metal institution, with melodic death metal, longship stage sets and choruses a whole field roars back.

Metal

Undercard

Avatar

Swedish band who wrap groove-heavy, melodeath-rooted metal in full theatrical costume and greasepaint, fronted by Johannes Eckerström's ringmaster showmanship.

Metal

Undercard

Behemoth

Polish blackened death metal staged like liturgy, with corpse paint, fire, and riffs with genuine architectural heft, led by Nergal's decades-long war on the sacred.

Blackened death metalBlack metal

Zakk Wylde's biker-metal brotherhood has pinch harmonics for days, Sabbath-weight riffs, and guitar solos treated as main events.

Heavy 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

Undercard

Carcass

Liverpool extremists who began in grindcore squalor and ended up writing some of the sharpest melodic riffs death metal has produced, and decades on they are still gleefully clinical.

Metal

Undercard

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

Swancore's funk-flecked flagship (technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash) with a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.

SwancorePost-hardcore

Undercard

DragonForce

British power metal at absurd velocity, where twin-guitar solos are treated as an extreme sport, delivered with a knowing grin that never undercuts the musicianship.

Metal

Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme's greasy boogie-rock outfit, whose name is a joke at metal's expense, with falsetto swagger, handclaps and riffs built for hips rather than mosh pits.

Rock

Top billing

Godsmack

Sully Erna's New England hard rock institution, built on percussion-heavy grooves and drum duels, with arena-scale riffs since the late '90s.

Hard rock

Undercard

Hatebreed

Thirty years of blunt-force positivity: Jamey Jasta shouting self-reliance over riffs engineered to move a room sideways, hardcore's most dependable motivational speaker.

HardcoreMetallic hardcore

Bluesy, scuffed-up rock delivered with a chip on the shoulder and a genuine gift for a chorus, with grit and hooks at festival scale.

Blues rockAlt-rock

Top billing

Hollywood Undead

Masked LA rap-rock six-piece with six vocalists and a knack for the shout-along that outlives the criticism: critic-proof and pit-approved.

Rap rockNu metal

Top billing

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

In Flames

Gothenburg institution who helped write the melodic death metal template in the early nineties, then spent decades restlessly pulling it toward melody, electronics and stadium-sized choruses.

Metal

Top billing

Lamb of God

Richmond, Virginia's groove-metal institution, fronted by Randy Blythe's bark, with riffs built for the kind of pit that clears a field.

Metal

Undercard

Mayday Parade

Warped Tour survivors trading in the specific ache of a song you loved at sixteen, and 'Miserable at Best' still empties the tear ducts.

Pop-punkEmo

Long-running Texas metalcore outfit fronted by Matty Mullins, pairing breakdowns with unapologetically big clean choruses for durability in a genre that chews bands up.

Hard rock

Swiss beatdown with a genuinely unsettling vocal performance sitting on top of the chug, and Europe's heaviest recent export.

DeathcoreBeatdown

Top billing

Parkway Drive

Byron Bay metalcore institution of two decades, grown from hardcore roots into a pyro-heavy arena spectacle led by Winston McCall's roar.

Metal

Undercard

Polaris

Sydney metalcore built on intricate, melodic riff architecture and hard clean-to-scream swings, with precision-tooled heaviness and real emotional weight.

Metal

Undercard

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

Top billing

Rise Against

Chicago's melodic-hardcore conscience, with two decades of fists-up anthems delivered with undimmed conviction, 'Savior' still closing rooms.

Melodic hardcore

Undercard

Sepultura

Brazil's metal export to the world: Roots-era tribal thrash that reshaped heavy music's map.

MetalThrash

Undercard

Sevendust

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

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

Top billing

Staind

Aaron Lewis-fronted Massachusetts band whose heavy, confessional post-grunge dominated late-'90s and 2000s rock radio, now reunited and playing loud again.

Hard rock

Undercard

State Champs

Albany pop-punk built on Derek DiScanio's sugar-rush hooks and guitar work tight enough to survive the breakdowns, with a decade-plus in the genre's second wave.

Rock

Undercard

Static-X

Los Angeles industrial-metal machine behind the 'evil disco' churn of Wayne Static's era, carrying the catalogue forward with the surviving lineup and a masked frontman.

Metal

Venice crossover legends with 'Institutionalized' and a pit that never ages, and Cyco Mike still leading the charge.

Crossover thrash

Undercard

Sullivan King

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

Dance

Undercard

Switchfoot

San Diego rock band who spent the late nineties as a Christian-market act before crossing over to mainstream radio, and 'Dare You to Move' still carries the room.

Alternative

Undercard

The Home Team

Seattle's funk-flecked pop-metalcore puts groove first and breakdowns second, with falsetto hooks the scene didn't see coming.

Pop-metalcore

Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto, with 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.

Post-hardcoreAlt-metal

Undercard

Underoath

'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now, metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.

MetalcorePost-hardcore

Undercard

Wind Rose

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

Metal

Top billing

Yellowcard

Violin-powered pop-punk: 'Ocean Avenue' at the actual ocean, and the violin still carries the hooks.

Pop-punk

On the bill · Thursday

Born of Osiris

Chicago-area group that folded keyboards and sweeping synth leads into deathcore early, helping define the technical, djent-adjacent wing of the genre.

Metal

On the bill · Thursday

Cartel

Atlanta pop-punk lifers whose 'Chroma' still hits like 2005, a front-to-back scene classic that never needed a follow-up to justify the devotion.

Pop-punkPower-pop

On the bill · Thursday

Death Angel

Bay Area thrash veterans who started as teenagers in the early 80s: technical, fast, and still playing it at full tilt four decades on.

Metal

On the bill · Thursday

Deicide

Florida death metal institution built on Glen Benton's blasphemy and relentless blast beats, and founding members of the genre, unrepentant since 1987.

Metal

On the bill · Thursday

Senses Fail

New Jersey post-hardcore that got angrier and more political as it aged, not softer, with Buddy Nielsen leading with total candor.

Post-hardcoreEmo

On the bill · Thursday

The Paradox

Atlanta pop-punk band with an early 2000s sound, whose single 'Get the Message' reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.

Pop/rock

On the bill · Friday

Chelsea Grin

Utah deathcore that keeps finding new floors beneath the floor, a decade-plus of low-tuned punishment that only got nastier with time.

Deathcore

On the bill · Friday

Dope

Edsel Dope's industrial nu-metal outfit, hardened on the late-'90s package-tour circuit, with sneering electronics and a cover of 'You Spin Me Round' that outlasted its moment.

Hard rock

On the bill · Friday

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 · Friday

Dying Fetus

Maryland death metal built on impossible riffs and a groove that sneaks up under all the brutality, with three-piece precision at full slam.

Death metalGrindcore

On the bill · Friday

Snuffed On Sight

Bay Area beatdown that is short, heavy, and built entirely around the part where the room comes apart.

Metal

On the bill · Friday

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.

Rock

On the bill · Saturday

Amira Elfeky

Solo alt-metal built from bedroom production upward, with nu-metal bounce and a genuinely modern pop ear, at the front of the scene's internet-native new wave.

Rock

On the bill · Saturday

DevilDriver

Dez Fafara's post-Coal Chamber outfit, grinding groove metal under a bark of a vocal, with two decades of relentless touring behind it.

Metal

On the bill · Saturday

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

On the bill · Saturday

Red

Nashville band whose orchestral hard rock pairs strings with crushing guitars, the sound set by their 2006 debut 'End of Silence'.

Christian rock

On the bill · Saturday

The Ready Set

Jordan Witzigreuter's solo pop project, born out of the late-2000s scene and still turning out bright, hook-first synth-pop.

Pop

On the bill · Sunday

blessthefall

Clean-and-scream metalcore from the Rise Records boom, played with more muscle than nostalgia by Phoenix scene veterans who kept the choruses enormous.

MetalcorePost-hardcore

On the bill · Sunday

Bodysnatcher

Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety, where grief and rage are compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.

Metal

On the bill · Sunday

Make Them Suffer

Perth deathcore act that has folded symphonic keyboards and clean vocals into its brutality since 2009, using melody as pressure, not relief.

Metal

On the bill · Sunday

Thy Art Is Murder

Sydney deathcore veterans with a bottom-heavy, unrelenting attack: two decades of blast beats and breakdowns delivered without a hint of levity.

Metal

On the bill

10 Years

Tennessee-formed rock band who came up through the early-2000s post-grunge wave and have kept working steadily ever since, pairing heavy riffs with big melodic choruses.

Hard rock

On the bill

All That Remains

New England metalcore that leaned into melody early and got a career of radio singles out of it, trading screams for choruses at exactly the right moment.

Metal

On the bill

Alpha Wolf

Melbourne heavyweights central to metalcore's nu-metal turn, with detuned bounce, panic chords and vocals that swing between screamed and spat.

Metal

On the bill

Anberlin

Florida band that came up in the early-2000s Christian-adjacent alt-rock wave, split mid-decade and returned, with Stephen Christian's high, urgent vocals over widescreen guitars.

Alternative

On the bill

Apocalyptica

Classically trained Finnish cellists who started by covering Metallica and never stopped headbanging, making symphonic metal where the strings genuinely shred.

Cello metalSymphonic metal

On the bill

Archers

Madison band playing post-hardcore since 2015, leaning toward the rock end of the genre.

Metal

On the bill

Bloodywood

Indian nu-metal with dhol and flute in the front of the mix, and anti-hate lyrics over some of the heaviest grooves going.

Nu metalFolk metal

Toronto deathcore built on cinematic orchestration and manga-inspired imagery, with pitch-shifted vocals and breakdowns arranged like a boss battle.

Death metal/black metal

On the bill

Breathe Carolina

Started as screamo-electro and ended up as a straight dance act, with both halves still showing up live as MySpace nostalgia collides with festival EDM.

Dance

On the bill

Buckcherry

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

On the bill

Carnifex

Blackened deathcore with a genuine sense of atmosphere under all the tremolo and blastbeats, where grim, symphonic weight outlasts the genre's shock tactics.

DeathcoreBlackened deathcore

On the bill

Castle Rat

Brooklyn doom theater with Sabbath-lineage riffs, delivered by a costumed cast with the Rat Queen out front.

Metal

Misanthropic eco-horror deathgrind, with Travis Ryan's clean-shriek hybrid doing something no other vocalist quite manages and apocalyptic themes played at extinction speed.

DeathgrindDeath metal

On the bill

Demon Hunter

Seattle outfit founded by the Clark brothers, alternating crushing groove with big melodic choruses, with faith-driven heaviness and a designer's eye for its own iconography.

Hard rock

Symphonic-leaning blackened deathcore assembled with orchestral bombast and technical density, with extremity arranged like a film score.

Metal

On the bill

Distant

Rotterdam crew working at the slowed-down, maximum-weight end of deathcore, where riffs lumber rather than sprint, built for sheer crushing pressure.

Metal

On the bill

Egypt Central

Memphis hard-rock outfit out of the late-2000s active-rock wave, with blunt riffs and hooks built for radio rotation.

Rock

Italian death metal with a full orchestral apparatus and an operatic streak played completely straight: tuxedos, corpse paint, and blastbeats in formalwear.

Symphonic death metalTechnical death metal

On the bill

Fozzy

Chris Jericho's rock band, long past the novelty stage and into a genuinely solid hard-rock catalogue, with wrestling charisma applied to riffs.

Hard rockHeavy metal

On the bill

Framing Hanley

Nashville rock band from the late-2000s post-grunge wave, back after a hiatus with the same big-chorus instincts intact.

Rock

Mid-2000s screamo whose most famous alumnus left to become a dubstep producer, with 'Dear Diary' drama that still hits the scene's pleasure centers.

Post-hardcoreScreamo

On the bill

Galactic Empire

Star Wars scores rearranged as instrumental progressive metal and performed in full character costume, a novelty premise executed with real technical chops.

Metal

The duo two Fever 333 members started after that band ended, with hardcore, electronics and no genre loyalty whatsoever.

Hard rock

On the bill

Ill Niño

New Jersey nu-metal survivors who built their sound on Latin percussion and layered rhythm, groove-first and heavier than the era's radio fare.

Hard rock

On the bill

Immolation

Death metal institution running since 1986 on dissonant, gravity-defying riffs and Ross Dolan's granite bellow, uncompromising across four decades.

Metal

On the bill

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

Jiluka

Japanese visual kei group active since 2013, welding digitally processed heaviness to full theatrical presentation, with costume and choreography played entirely straight.

Pop

On the bill

Napalm Death

The band that essentially invented grindcore, still politically ferocious and still capable of a song shorter than this sentence, and Birmingham's loudest export.

GrindcoreDeath metal

On the bill

Nekrogoblikon

Melodic death metal about goblins, performed with a technical seriousness that makes the joke land harder, and a dancing goblin mascot is included.

Metal

On the bill

Nonpoint

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

On the bill

Primer 55

Downtuned riffs and half-rapped menace from nu-metal's major-label boom years, running in fits and starts until the band finally called it quits in 2015.

Rock

On the bill

Psychostick

Self-described humorcore: deadpan songs about beer, food and workplace misery, played with enough genuine heaviness that the joke never undercuts the riffs.

Metal

On the bill

Saliva

Memphis band from the nu-metal boom whose riff-and-hook formula outlasted the trend that produced it, with three decades of rap-inflected hard rock.

Hard rock

On the bill

Sick Puppies

Australian trio who spent the late 2000s making radio-sized post-grunge, with big choruses, bigger riffs, and a knack for songs that soundtrack a fight.

Rock

American deathcore at its most relentless, with downtuned slams and guttural low end delivered with enough precision to keep the brutality legible.

Metal

On the bill

Spineshank

LA industrial-tinged nu metal, mechanical and cold in a way most of their late-'90s peers never managed, with machine-press riffs still grinding.

Nu metalIndustrial metal

On the bill

Spiritworld

Stu Folsom's Las Vegas project welding thrash riffs to metallic hardcore, wrapped in outlaw-Western imagery and desert dread rather than the usual genre furniture.

Metal

On the bill

Suffocation

New York death metal originators, and the band most responsible for the breakdown as a technical device rather than a gimmick.

Death metalTechnical death metal

On the bill

The Ataris

Long-running American pop-punk act whose late-90s and early-2000s run made them fixtures of the skate-punk era, still touring on those hooks.

Rock

On the bill

The Haunt

Florida family band fronted by Anastasia Grace Elliot, pairing alt-rock hooks with a heavily stylised dark-pop presentation.

Rock

On the bill

The Word Alive

Phoenix metalcore fronted by Telle Smith, alternating clean choruses with breakdowns and drifting toward electronics as the years pass.

Rock

On the bill

Thornhill

Melbourne five-piece who traded straight metalcore for something sleeker and more atmospheric, with riffs built around croon-to-scream dynamics.

Metal

On the bill

Thrown

Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic: short songs, total impact.

HardcoreNu-metalcore

On the bill

Whitechapel

Knoxville deathcore that grew genuinely melodic without losing any of the weight underneath, with Phil Bozeman's range now the band's superpower.

DeathcoreDeath metal

On the bill

Winona Fighter

Nashville punk trio with a drummer-vocalist front and centre and no interest in polish, with raw hooks played standing on the kit.

Pop punk

Ohio metalcore band that has spent well over a decade balancing screamed and sung vocals against faith-driven lyrics: heavy without the nihilism.

Hard rock

The headliners

  • Foo Fighters · Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going, with a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig. Co-headlined the weekend, three decades into being the most dependable rock band alive.
  • My Chemical Romance · Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera, with marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note. The theatrical heart of a generation's record collection, headlining Sunday.
  • Guns N' Roses · The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon, Slash solos and all. The classic-lineup reunion, still getting through most of the canon.
  • Bring Me The Horizon · Sheffield shape-shifters who went from feral deathcore to arena-sized electronic metalcore, with one of heavy music's most elaborate stage shows. Started in deathcore, ended up between arena rock and hyperpop, headlining Saturday.

Up-and-comers to catch early

  • Winona Fighter · Nashville punk trio with a genuinely nasty streak and very short songs.
  • House of Protection · Post-hardcore from ex-Fever 333 members, restless and hard to pin down.
  • Castle Rat · Doom metal staged as full theatre, costumes and narrative included.
  • Amira Elfeky · Nu-metal-adjacent alt-rock with a much heavier live show than the records suggest.
  • Dead Poet Society · Blues-inflected alt-rock built around genuinely unusual guitar playing.
  • Thrown · Swedish hardcore about burnout, and one of the heaviest bands on the bill.
  • Snuffed On Sight · Bay Area beatdown with no interest in melody whatsoever.

Other acts worth planning around

  • Alice Cooper · The originator of rock theatre, still running the guillotine.
  • Amon Amarth · Viking death metal with a stage show to match the subject matter.
  • Yellowcard · The violin-led pop-punk band whose reunion turned out to have real staying power.
  • Flyleaf w/ Lacey Sturm · A reunion set with the original vocalist, billed as such.

Welcome to Rockville 2026 lineup FAQ

Who headlined Welcome to Rockville 2026?

Foo Fighters and Guns N' Roses co-headlined, with My Chemical Romance and Bring Me The Horizon headlining the other two nights.

When and where was Welcome to Rockville 2026?

May 7–10, 2026, at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

How many bands played Welcome to Rockville 2026?

156 across the four days, the largest Danny Wimmer Presents bill of the year.

Is Welcome to Rockville related to Sonic Temple and Louder Than Life?

Yes. All three are Danny Wimmer Presents festivals, which is why headliners and much of the undercard rotate between them across a single year.

When is Welcome to Rockville 2027?

Welcome to Rockville is expected back in May 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.

Festivals like Welcome to Rockville

  • Sonic Temple 2027 lineup

    – · Historic Crew Stadium, Columbus, OH · 70 shared acts: Blink-182, Korn, $UICIDEBOY$

  • Boardwalk Rock 2027 lineup

    – · Ocean City Inlet, Ocean City, MD · 21 shared acts: Korn, The Prodigy, Cypress Hill

  • Rock am Ring 2027 lineup

    – · Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany · 13 shared acts: blink-182, The Prodigy, Faith No More

  • Rock im Park 2027 lineup

    – · Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, Germany · 13 shared acts: blink-182, Faith No More, The Prodigy

  • Nova Rock 2027 lineup

    – · Pannonia Fields, Nickelsdorf, Austria · 7 shared acts: I Prevail, Jinjer, Showing Teeth

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