TL;DR: Welcome To Rockville 2026 is going big for its 15th anniversary with Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, and more than 160 bands set for Daytona International Speedway on May 7-10.
Key Takeaways
– Welcome To Rockville 2026 returns to Daytona International Speedway on May 7-10, 2026.
– The 15th anniversary lineup features more than 160 bands across five stages.
– Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Bring Me The Horizon, and My Chemical Romance headline the four-day festival.
– Tickets, VIP options, hotel packages, parking, and limited camping add-ons are on sale now.
Welcome To Rockville 2026 just dropped one of the loudest festival announcements of the year. The Florida event is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and it is stacking the deck with a lineup that feels built to wreck necks for four straight days.
This year’s festival runs from May 7 through May 10 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. Danny Wimmer Presents says more than 160 bands will hit five stages, which means fans are getting a ridiculous amount of rock, metal, punk, and alt chaos in one weekend.
The headliners alone are enough to turn heads. Guns N’ Roses leads Thursday. Foo Fighters owns Friday. Bring Me The Horizon takes Saturday. Then My Chemical Romance closes out Sunday. That is a monster four-night run.
And honestly, the support acts make this thing feel even bigger. Five Finger Death Punch, TURNSTILE, The Offspring, Breaking Benjamin, A Day To Remember, Godsmack, Staind, Parkway Drive, Lamb of God, Yellowcard, Alice Cooper, Ice Nine Kills, Lorna Shore, Tom Morello, Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm, and Underoath are all on the bill.
Why the Welcome To Rockville 2026 lineup hits hard
What makes this Welcome To Rockville 2026 lineup stand out is the mix. You have legacy arena killers, modern heavy hitters, reunion sets, anniversary performances, and home-state moments all packed into one event. It does not read like a safe booking. It reads like a flex.
There are also a bunch of specific hooks that fans will lock onto fast. Bring Me The Horizon is booked for its only Florida show of 2026. Parkway Drive is slated for its only U.S. performance of the year. Staind is celebrating 25 years of Break the Cycle, while Five Finger Death Punch is launching its 20th anniversary world tour.
Then you get the nostalgia grenade drops. Yellowcard has a home-state show. Sleeping With Sirens is marking 15 years of Let’s Cheers To This. From First To Last is reuniting. Egypt Central and Primer 55 are back. If you grew up in warped playlists and festival pits, this lineup absolutely knows what it is doing.
Welcome To Rockville is also leaning into the full festival experience again. A Wednesday pre-party is set for May 6 with Fuel, Local H, Adelitas Way, and Ashes Remain. That gives campers and early arrivals a solid excuse to start the weekend before the main gates really explode.
Daytona gets another huge festival swing
The business side matters too, because Rockville is not just a cool poster. The festival drew more than 230,000 fans in 2025, according to the release, and organizers say it now generates more than $80 million in economic impact for the region each year.
That scale helps explain why the event has become such a massive fixture in Daytona Beach. Earlier this year, Danny Wimmer Presents and Daytona International Speedway announced a 10-year agreement that keeps Welcome To Rockville in Daytona through 2035. So no, this is not some one-off spike. This thing is planted.
For fans planning the trip, the sales pitch is already live. Single-day passes, four-day GA, VIP, and the Daytona Owners Club options are on sale now. Hotel packages are available through Jampack, and a limited number of car-and-tent camping add-ons are still up for grabs, while RV camping is already sold out.
The bottom line is simple. Welcome To Rockville 2026 looks built for scale, noise, and fan service. If the headliners pull the casual crowd and the deep undercard locks in the diehards, this could end up being one of the biggest rock weekends Florida sees all year. Fans are going to be arguing over schedule conflicts for months, and that is usually the sign of a damn good festival.
