Foo Fighters
Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
Welcome to Rockville 2026 Lineup
Welcome to Rockville 2026 has already wrapped — but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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.
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.
The headliners
- Foo Fighters — Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
- My Chemical Romance — Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
- 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.
- Bring Me The Horizon — Playing debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its 20th — a return to the feral deathcore they spent the next two decades outgrowing.
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
- Foo Fighters — Co-headlined the weekend, three decades into being the most dependable rock band alive.
- Guns N' Roses — The classic-lineup reunion, still getting through most of the canon.
- My Chemical Romance — The theatrical heart of a generation's record collection, headlining Sunday.
- Bring Me The Horizon — Started in deathcore, ended up between arena rock and hyperpop, headlining Saturday.
- 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.
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My Chemical Romance
Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
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.
Bring Me The Horizon
Playing debut Count Your Blessings front to back for its 20th — a return to the feral deathcore they spent the next two decades outgrowing.
TURNSTILE
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
Five Finger Death Punch
The Offspring
Thirty years of hooks that snuck genuine punk speed onto daytime radio without anyone noticing — the catalog is basically all singles.
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.
A Day To Remember
The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
Godsmack
Staind
Parkway Drive
Lamb of God
Yellowcard
Violin-powered pop-punk — 'Ocean Avenue' at the actual ocean, and the violin still carries the hooks.
Rise Against
Chicago's melodic-hardcore conscience — two decades of fists-up anthems delivered with undimmed conviction, 'Savior' still closing rooms.
All Time Low
Maryland pop-punk heroes — two decades of fast, funny, chorus-first anthems, and 'Dear Maria' hits different in home waters.
Motionless in White
Horror-movie theatrics welded to industrial-tinged metalcore — corpse paint, synths, and choruses built for an arena singalong, Halloween as a year-round genre.
Alice Cooper
The original shock-rock showman — guillotines, snakes, straitjackets, and 'School's Out' forever, still running rock's greatest vaudeville horror show six decades in.
Ice Nine Kills
Horror-movie metalcore staged as full theatre — every song a slasher reference, every set closer to a production than a gig.
Amon Amarth
Simple Plan
Lorna Shore
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.
Slaughter To Prevail
Alex Terrible's subterranean roar over deathcore built like siege machinery — as much spectacle as band, and heavier than both.
Sleeping with Sirens
Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore — Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
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.
Black Label Society
Zakk Wylde's biker-metal brotherhood — pinch harmonics for days, Sabbath-weight riffs, and guitar solos treated as main events.
Highly Suspect
Bluesy, scuffed-up rock delivered with a chip on the shoulder and a genuine gift for a chorus — grit and hooks at festival scale.
Dance Gavin Dance
Swancore's funk-flecked flagship — technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash, a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.
Architects
Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening
Poppy
The Warning
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone — Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
Behemoth
Polish blackened death metal staged like liturgy — corpse paint, fire, and riffs with genuine architectural heft, led by Nergal's decades-long war on the sacred.
Dethklok
Metalocalypse's cartoon death-metal band, real and devastating live — Brendon Small's shred played against the animation at brutal volume.
Zakk Sabbath
Zakk Wylde playing Sabbath songs with reverence and absurd volume — a tribute act with a guitar hero attached, pinch harmonics included.
Flyleaf w/ Lacey Sturm
Underoath
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now — metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
Black Veil Brides
Andy Biersack's theatrical goth-metal, aged from scene lightning rod into a band that just writes big rock songs — warpaint optional, choruses mandatory.
Mayday Parade
Warped Tour survivors trading in the specific ache of a song you loved at sixteen — 'Miserable at Best' still empties the tear ducts.
Sepultura
Suicidal Tendencies
Venice crossover legends — 'Institutionalized' and a pit that never ages, Cyco Mike still leading the charge.
Starset
Space-suit cinematic rock — sci-fi lore with radio-metal hooks, a full 'demonstration' rather than a mere concert.
Coal Chamber
Spooky-kid nu-metal with detuned bounce and a goth streak the genre mostly abandoned — 'Loco'-era heaviness back from the grave.
Sevendust
Lajon Witherspoon's soul-trained voice over grinding alt-metal — the reason they outlasted the scene, and the warmest crowd in heavy music.
The HU
Yelawolf
Sullivan King
Story of the Year
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.
Avatar
In Flames
Switchfoot
The Home Team
Seattle's funk-flecked pop-metalcore — groove first, breakdowns second, and falsetto hooks the scene didn't see coming.
State Champs
The Plot In You
Moody, bass-heavy alt-metal that trades breakdowns for slow-building dread and falsetto — 'FEEL NOTHING' the crossover moment.
Static-X
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.
We The Kings
'Check Yes Juliet' — MySpace-era pop-punk sunshine, Florida warmth that never curdled, and the chorus still checks yes.
Paleface Swiss
Swiss beatdown with a genuinely unsettling vocal performance sitting on top of the chug — Europe's heaviest recent export.
Kreator
Eagles of Death Metal
Waka Flocka Flame
3OH!3
DONTTRUSTME and the rest of the MySpace-era catalog, played fully self-aware — neon electro-rap chaos that has aged into a gleeful, shout-along riot live.
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.
The Wonder Years
Pop-punk that grew up in public — suburban specifics rendered with novelistic detail, Dan Campbell narrating adulthood in real time.
L. S. Dunes
MCR, Thursday, and Circa Survive members' supergroup — urgent, veteran post-hardcore played like a first band, not a side project.
Atreyu
OC metalcore originators — 'Lip Gloss and Black' nostalgia with new-era polish, from a band that helped write the genre's melodic playbook in the first place.
DragonForce
Wind Rose
Carcass
Palaye Royale
Failure
Polaris
Memphis May Fire
Dorothy
blessthefall
Clean-and-scream metalcore from the Rise Records boom, played with more muscle than nostalgia — Phoenix scene veterans who kept the choruses enormous.
DevilDriver
From First To Last
Mid-2000s screamo whose most famous alumnus left to become a dubstep producer — 'Dear Diary' drama that still hits the scene's pleasure centers.
Apocalyptica
Classically trained Finnish cellists who started by covering Metallica and never stopped headbanging — symphonic metal where the strings genuinely shred.
Senses Fail
New Jersey post-hardcore that got angrier and more political as it aged, not softer — Buddy Nielsen leading with total candor.
Cartel
Sunny, hook-first pop-punk from the Chroma era, back when a big chorus was the entire argument — and theirs were bigger than most.
Violent Vira
Dying Fetus
Maryland death metal built on impossible riffs and a groove that sneaks up under all the brutality — three-piece precision at full slam.
Breathe Carolina
Whitechapel
Knoxville deathcore that grew genuinely melodic without losing any of the weight underneath — Phil Bozeman's range now the band's superpower.
Thrown
Swedish hardcore channelling panic-attack lyricism into riffs that feel physically claustrophobic — short songs, total impact.
Bloodywood
Indian nu-metal with dhol and flute in the front of the mix — anti-hate lyrics over some of the heaviest grooves going.
Buckcherry
All That Remains
Anberlin
Magnolia Park
Orlando pop-punk that pulls freely from hip-hop and hyperpop and refuses to pick a lane — genre loyalty traded for pure momentum.
Cattle Decapitation
Misanthropic eco-horror deathgrind, with Travis Ryan's clean-shriek hybrid doing something no other vocalist quite manages — apocalyptic themes played at extinction speed.
The Ready Set
Catch Your Breath
Texas metalcore with a big melodic centre — the kind of band that grows a stage size every touring cycle.
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.
Death Angel
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.
Dope
Make Them Suffer
Thornhill
Demon Hunter
Saliva
Brand of Sacrifice
Fozzy
Chris Jericho's rock band, long past the novelty stage and into a genuinely solid hard-rock catalogue — wrestling charisma applied to riffs.
Born of Osiris
Sick Puppies
10 Years
Dead Poet Society
Napalm Death
The band that essentially invented grindcore, still politically ferocious and still capable of a song shorter than this sentence — Birmingham's loudest export.
Spineshank
LA industrial-tinged nu metal, mechanical and cold in a way most of their late-'90s peers never managed — machine-press riffs, still grinding.
Thy Art Is Murder
Alpha Wolf
Deicide
The Paradox
Carnifex
Blackened deathcore with a genuine sense of atmosphere under all the tremolo and blastbeats — grim, symphonic weight that outlasts the genre's shock tactics.
Bodysnatcher
Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety — grief and rage compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Italian death metal with a full orchestral apparatus and an operatic streak played completely straight — tuxedos, corpse paint, and blastbeats in formalwear.
Egypt Central
Winona Fighter
House of Protection
Fame On Fire
The Word Alive
Amira Elfeky
Suffocation
New York death metal originators, and the band most responsible for the breakdown as a technical device rather than a gimmick.
Nonpoint
The Ataris
Jiluka
Nekrogoblikon
Melodic death metal about goblins, performed with a technical seriousness that makes the joke land harder — dancing goblin mascot included.
Red
'End of Silence' anniversary — orchestral Christian metal's biggest debut, replayed in full with the strings intact.
Ill Niño
Psychostick
Framing Hanley
Immolation
Archers
Galactic Empire
Signs of the Swarm
Primer 55
Disembodied Tyrant
Spiritworld
Distant
Infected Rain
Castle Rat
Not Enough Space
The Haunt
Wolves At The Gate
Snuffed On Sight
If Not For Me
Colorblind
Afterlife
Ladrones
Platinum Moon
Netherwalker
Kill The Robot
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