Sunday at Welcome to Rockville
The final day of Welcome to Rockville 2023 in Daytona Beach brought out fans of Tool and other acts. For some the festival also brought back memories.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Jelly Roll and Disturbed will be among the marquee headliners at the Welcome to Rockville music festival when the mammoth four-day event returns May 9-12 at Daytona International Speedway.
Those bands will top a significantly expanded lineup of at least 150 bands announced Wednesday by the festival’s Los Angeles-based promoter, Danny Wimmer Presents. That’s up from a total of 95 acts on the bill for the 2023 edition of the festival in Daytona Beach.
To accommodate the additional bands, the festival is adding a fifth stage to the event in 2024, the promoter announced.
The Rockville performance will mark milestone years for several of the headliners, with Slipknot celebrating its 25th anniversary and Judas Priest commemorating its 50th year.
For Foo Fighter fans, that band’s appearance marks its Rockville return after canceling its scheduled 2022 festival show following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.
The initial list of confirmed bands also includes Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, Judas Priest, Greta Van Fleet, Evanescence, Falling In Reverse, A Day To Remember, Breaking Benjamin, Bad Omens, The Offspring, Mudvayne, Koe Wetzel, Stone Temple Pilots, Primus, Cypress Hill and Sum 41.
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The festival also will feature a rare appearance by Mr. Bungle, a longtime free-wheeling California band featuring lead singer Mike Patton known for its experimental hybrid of heavy metal, avant-garde jazz, ska, disco and funk.
The full lineup announced on Wednesday also includes:
In This Moment, Architects, Royal Blood, Anthrax; Black Veil Brides, Polyphia, Kerry King, Skillet, Theory of a Deadman, Flyleaf W/ Lacey Sturm, Wage War, Clutch, Tech N9ne, Mammoth WVH, STARSET, Living Colour, Machine Head, Insane Clown Posse, In Flames, Slaughter To Prevail, The Ghost Inside, The Struts, P.O.D., Code Orange, Electric Callboy, L7, The Amity Affliction, Baroness, Shadows Fall, Atreyu, August Burns Red, Of Mice & Men, All Them Witches, Apocalyptica, THE CHATS, Kittie, Movements, Sebastian Bach, Jehnny Beth, Stabbing Westward, All That Remains, Kid Kapichi, Reignwolf, Dirty Honey, Fear Factory, Enter Shikari, Polaris, Saliva, Magnolia Park, Amigo The Devil, Austin Meade, The Word Alive, New Years Day, Kublai Khan TX, Bob Vylan, Mushroomhead, Red Fang, Currents, Helmet, Drain, Kim Dracula, Biohazard, Nitzer Ebb, Soulfly, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, FLAT BLACK, Nova Twins, Miss May I, Skindred, Alien Ant Farm, Drowning Pool, Taproot, ORGY, Destroy Boys, Taipei Houston, Terror, Gel, Fleshwater, Scowl, Militarie Gun, Nita Strauss, Dead Poet Society, LACUNA COIL, PLUSH, SiM, Cold, Powerman 5000, Nonpoint, HED PE, Trust Company, Point North, Blind Channel, Adema, The Chisel, SPITE, Harms Way, Bodysnatcher, I SEE STARS, RAIN CITY DRIVE, Crobot, Sleep Theory, Imminence, Tim Montana, Gatecreeper, Return To Dust, StrateJacket, Eva Under Fire, Afterlife, Bad Nerves, Another Day Dawns, GIDEON, FIRE FROM THE GODS, Catch Your Breath, Calva Louise, VUKOVI, Citizen Soldier, KILL THE ROBOT, Moon Fever, Dying Wish, thrown, Stick to Your Guns, HotBox, TX2, Lø Spirit, and Fuming Mouth.
Additional bands will be announced early next year, according to the promoter.
Rockville 2024 marks 4th year in Daytona Beach
The 2024 edition of the event will mark Rockville’s fourth year at Daytona International Speedway, following a successful run as a popular outdoor concert fixture in Jacksonville for nearly a decade.
Over that time, it has built a solid reputation for presenting dozens of bands annually, including a long roster of A-list heavy-metal heroes.
The 2023 festival attracted an estimated 170,000 fans that attended the four-day heavy-metal festival that featured headliners Tool, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold and Pantera atop a list of 95 acts.
That’s a record-setting total that eclipsed the event’s previous high of 161,000 set in 2021, Rockville’s first year in Daytona Beach after nearly a decade in Jacksonville.
An allotment of weekend general admission wristbands for the 2024 festival that went on sale this past summer for an initial early-bird price of $269.99 plus taxes and fees had sold out by early November, according to the festival promoter.
When an allotted number of tickets are sold at that price, the cost has increased to $289.99, plus taxes and fees. Those passes went on sale at the time of Wednesday’s lineup announcement. Single-day general admission tickets also went on sale Wednesday for $109.99, plus fees.
Visit welcometorockville.com for tickets and more information.