Welcome To Rockville
Brought Together 210,000 Music Fans For
15th Anniversary Of Florida’s Largest Rock, Metal & Punk Festival
May 7-10, 2026 At Daytona International Speedway
The 4-Day Destination Event Offered 160+ Bands On 5 Stages
Headlining Performances From
Guns N’ Roses (Thursday), Foo Fighters (Friday),
Bring Me The Horizon (Saturday) & My Chemical Romance (Sunday)
More Memorable Moments Included:
A Day To Remember’s Surprise Pop-Up Set,
Breaking Benjamin Debuting “Something Wicked” Live,
DragonForce With New Co-Vocalist Alissa White-Gluz For The First Time,
Ice Nine Kills Performing “Twisting The Knife” with Special Guest MAPHRA,
Plus More Anniversaries, Unannounced Guest Collaborations & Live Debuts
2027 Dates Will Be Announced Soon
(May 13, 2026): Welcome To Rockville celebrated its 15th anniversary with a bang, marking one of the biggest events in the festival’s history, with 210,000 music fans from all 50 states and 30 countries taking in more than 160 bands on 5 stages at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The World Center of Rockfeatured a wide range of rock and metal performances from headliners including Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Guns N’ Roses and Bring Me The Horizon, plus TURNSTILE, Five Finger Death Punch, The Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, A Day To Remember, Godsmack, Staind, Parkway Drive, Lamb of God, Yellowcard and many more.
Florida’s Largest Rock, Metal & Punk Festival also offered an incredible number of additional special performances and exclusive moments, including:
● Guns N’ Roses paid tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne by reviving their cover of Black Sabbath’s “Never Say Die” for the first time this year
● Bring Me The Horizon staged their only Florida show of 2026
● A Day To Remember held a surprise pop-up set at the Kona Big Wave Halfpipe area, featuring songs from 2007’s breakthrough For Those Who Have Heart
● Breaking Benjamin debuted “Something Wicked” live and introduced new drummer Brian Medeiros. They were also joined onstage by Lacey Sturm (Flyleaf) for “Dear Agony”
● Parkway Drive brought an exclusive 2026 U.S. performance
● Godsmack debuted new drummer Wade Murff, plus DWP Founder Danny Wimmer joined Sully Erna on stage to spotlight the partnership between Sully’s nonprofit, the Scars Foundation, and The DWP Foundation, and to raise awareness for the Wellness Lounge, providing mental health support onsite.
● Ice Nine Kills performed “Twisting The Knife” from Scream 7 for the very first time and were joined by special guest/internet sensation MAPHRA and the Volusia Community Orchestra for a theatrical performance
● Dragonforce performed with new co-vocalist Alissa White-Gluz (ex-Arch Enemy) for the first time
● Waka Flocka Flame made his major rock festival debut and his debut at a DWP event with one of the most attended sets at his stage
● Sepultura marked their final Florida show
● Flyleaf performed “So I Thought” for the first time in 14 years with Breaking Benjamin’s Ben Burnley
● Sullivan King hit the Garage Stage at 1am for the latest set in Welcome To Rockville history
In addition to the music, Welcome To Rockville also kicked things off Wednesday, May 6 with the inaugural Blood4Blood bare knuckle fighting event at Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, co-produced by Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, Danny Wimmer Presents, and 5B Artist Management, in which Slaughter to Prevail frontman Alex Terrible fought middleweight and PBR star Cameron “The Bull” Delano. Blood4Blood also featured performances from Slaughter To Prevail, Black Label Society, Crowbar and Malevolence at this one-of-a-kind event, merging combat sports and hard rock.
Fans also enjoyed additional onsite experiences and festival enhancements, including The Pit Stop, a brand-new zone that featured intimate performances from Atreyu, Paleface Swiss, We The Kings, Kreator, Dead Poet Society, Wolves At The Gate, and 200 Stab Wounds as Kerrang! brought its flagship live series The K! Pit across the pond. Fans could also watch live artist interviews with Breaking Benjamin, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Hollywood Undead, Black Veil Brides, Lorna Shore, The Warning and more during the SiriusXM OctaneHeadbangers Happy Hour with hosts Caity Babs, Shannon Gunz and Jose “Metal Ambassador” Mangin, and more. During the festival, fans around the world could also tune in live to hear interviews and live performances from various Welcome To Rockville artists on SiriusXM’s Rockville Radio takeover on Octane (Ch. 37). The best of Rockville highlights on Rockville Radioalso can be streamed on the SiriusXM app and web player now through May 22.
For the first time ever, the festival’s Garage Stage wasfully tented, offering up to 15,000 square feet of coverage. This new stage atmosphere provided more shade, better production and bigger sound. Onsite at Welcome To Rockville there were also opportunities to enjoy a series of carnival rides including the Rockvillian Wheel, refresh and enjoy non-stop karaoke at the iHeart Radio Dive Bar, check out the festival’s vintage merch pop-up, and spend time at the Salty Skeeters tiki bar.
Here’s what the media had to say about Welcome To Rockville 2026:
“The 2026 Welcome to Rockville festival is in the books, leaving music lovers with plenty of memorable moments. Over the four-day music weekend, we saw song debuts, first-time performances, tributes to legends, new band member debuts, old band member reunions and quite a bit more.” — Loudwire
“A four-night music festival that rivals the biggest rock-metal events in North America … the heavy metal heaven is finally here.” — Daytona Beach News-Journal
The 2027 festival dates for Welcome to Rockville will be announced soon.
Welcome To Rockville is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America. DWP was proud to partner with an incredible lineup of partners for Welcome To Rockville 2026, including Beatbox Beverages, Bud Light, Jack Daniel’s, KONA, Milagro, NÜTRL and Red Bull. As well, The DWP Foundationsupported multiple nonprofit activations throughout the weekend, including the Scars Foundation / DWP Foundation Wellness Lounge, Music Saves Lives, HeartSupport, and Recovery Alliance.
Originally launched in Jacksonville, Florida in 2011, Welcome To Rockville found its permanent home at Daytona International Speedway in 2021. Since then, the festival has established itself as The World Center of Rock, welcoming record-breaking crowds and cementing itself as a flagship event on the global festival calendar. Each year, Rockville generates over $80 million in economic impact through tourism, hospitality, and local business engagement—making it not only a cultural powerhouse but also a major driver of regional growth.
For more information on Welcome To Rockville, please visit:
Website: https://welcometorockville.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/welcometorockville/
Twitter: https://x.com/RockvilleFest
Instagram: www.instagram.com/welcometorockville
Welcome To Rockville’s massive 2026 crowd, by Sam Shapiro
Guns N’ Roses, courtesy of Guns N’ Roses
Foo Fighters by Steve Thrasher
Bring Me The Horizon by Austin Cooper
My Chemical Romance by Steve Thrasher
A Day To Remember by Justin Agoncillo
Breaking Benjamin by Justin Agoncillo
Ice Nine Kills with MAPHRA by Austin Cooper
DragonForce with Alissa White-Gluz by Dan Virchow
Godsmack’s Sully Erna with Danny Wimmer by Jake Miller
Welcome To Rockville fans by Austin Cooper
Welcome To Rockville fans by Preston Saunders
Carnival rides at Welcome to Rockville by Austin Cooper
About Danny Wimmer Presents: Since 1995, music industry veteran Danny Wimmer has been producing concerts and festivals, both large and small. In 2011, he founded Danny Wimmer Presents, a live entertainment company that produces the largest rock, metal, and alternative music festivals in the U.S. DWP creates unforgettable and all-encompassing festival experiences, leaving both attendees and partners with lasting and meaningful impressions. Since 2020, DWP has been an innovator in the digital content space with over two dozen international livestreams, acclaimed social series Offstage with DWP, DWPresents Channel on Twitch, which has garnered over 25 million worldwide views since its launch in mid-2021, and The Power Hour, a weekly show dedicated to the world of rock that aired on AXS TV. DWP’s paranormal investigative video series Paranormal Prison (2023-2025) documented some of the supernatural experiences at Ohio State Reformatory during Inkcarceration with the help of bands performing at the festival. Episodes are available at www.youtube.com/@DannyWimmerPresents. The 2026 DWP festival lineup includes Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival and Welcome To Rockville.
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About Daytona International Speedway
Daytona International Speedway is a state-of-the-art motorsports facility and was awarded the SportsBusiness Journal’s prestigious Sports Business Award for Sports Facility of the Year in 2016. Daytona International Speedway is the home of The Great American Race – the DAYTONA 500. Though the season-opening NASCAR Cup Series event garners most of the attention – as well as the largest audience in motorsports – the approximately 500-acre motorsports complex, also known as the World Center of Racing, boasts the most diverse schedule of racing on the globe. Some of the exciting racing events include January’s Rolex 24 At DAYTONA and Roar Before The Rolex 24, February’s DAYTONA 500 and Speedweeks Presented by AdventHealth, March’s Bike Week At DAYTONA Presented By GEICO, featuring DAYTONA Supercross and the DAYTONA 200, the August Coke Zero Sugar 400 weekend, and much more. The Speedway grounds are also used extensively for other events that include concerts (Welcome To Rockville, Heroes Honor Festival, etc.), sporting events (DAYTONA Soccer Fest, CLASH DAYTONA, etc.) civic and social gatherings, car shows, photo shoots, production vehicle testing and police motorcycle training.