We’re getting a lot of 2026 festival lineups today. Daytona Beach’s Welcome To Rockville fest isn’t the best of them, but it’s almost certainly the biggest. Welcome To Rockville might be the king of what’s known in certain circles as the racetrack festivals — the ones with lineups built on metal and on the kind of stuff that gets played on active-rock radio. These festivals are big, and they bring in tons of acts. Next year’s Welcome To Rockville will come to the Daytona International Speedway May 7-10, and it’ll feature a lineup that includes stadium-sized headliners My Chemical Romance, Guns N’ Roses, the Foo Fighters, and Bring Me The Horizon.
Here’s something I thought was funny: Turnstile are now second-stage headliners at Welcome To Rockville, and they’ll share that duty with Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, and home-state heroes A Day To Remember. There’s plenty of other stuff on the bill that looks potentially fun, including the Offspring, Alice Cooper, Coheed And Cambria, Lamb Of God, Amon Amarth, L.S. Dunes, Behemoth, Tom Morello, Failure, Yelawolf, From First To Last, Dethklok, Suicidal Tendencies, DragonForce, Story Of The Year, and the Wonder Years.
While fests like this usually have a fair amount of DIY hardcore on the smaller stages, this one is pretty much limited to Hatebreed and Snuffed On Sight. This being Florida, though, there’s a good amount of classic death metal, including Napalm Death, Carcass, Deicide, Suffocation, Kreator, Death Angel, Dying Fetus, and the current version of Sepultura. You can find all the relevant info here.
