Guns N’ Roses and Foo Fighters join previously announced headliners My Chemical Romance and British metalcore vets Bring Me the Horizon atop a lineup of more than 160 bands at the 2026 edition of Welcome to Rockville May 7-10 at Daytona International Speedway.
The addition of Guns N’ Roses and Foo Fighters, two bands with monstrous mainstream appeal, was the big news on Tuesday, Nov. 18, when the festival’s Los Angeles-based promoter Danny Wimmer Presents revealed the full lineup for the festival that will unfold for the sixth consecutive year across the Speedway’s massive infield.
“Last year’s record-breaking crowd raised the bar for what this festival could be, and this year’s lineup lives up to that energy,” said DWP founder Danny Wimmer in a statement that accompanied the announcement. “Bringing together Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, and so many others on the same bill is more than a booking decision — it’s what keeps this genre alive and moving forward.”
The full lineup is the latest in a series of announcements that have offered a tantalizing trickle of band confirmations starting in October on the festival’s social media pages.
In all, Welcome To Rockville 2026 will feature more than 160 bands spanning all rock genres on five 5 stages over its four-day run.
Here are a few of the most notable acts, grouped by day:
One-day general admission tickets are on sale for the 2026 edition of Welcome to Rockville at welcometorockville.com. One-day GA tickets cost $153 per day, including all fees.
Early bird 4-day general admission passes are also on sale for the 2026 festival at welcometorockville.com, starting at an all-in, fees-included price of $425 for individual passes, $1,654 for 4-day GA 4-packs.
Daytona’s Welcome to Rockville 2026 offers exclusive performances
Among the 160+ bands, many are performing milestone tours or shows, including:
Daytona’s Welcome to Rockville set attendance records in 2025
The 2026 edition of Welcome to Rockville will be the festival’s sixth year at Daytona International Speedway since relocating from its previous longtime home in Jacksonville.
This past May, the event showcased more than 150 bands over four days on five outdoor stages, a lineup that included mainstage headliners Shinedown, Green Day, Linkin Park and Korn.
Although the festival faced a few last-minute challenges due to the late cancellations of two highly anticipated acts, Alice in Chains and 3 Doors Down, due to health issues, it didn’t stop the event from logging a new attendance record.
Welcome to Rockville 2025 registered its highest attendance yet, with a record-breaking 230,000 fans visiting Daytona International Speedway during the event, according to organizers.
That number surpassed the 2024 mark of more than 200,000 attendees, a total that eclipsed a previous record of 170,000, set in 2023 in Daytona Beach.
Welcome to Rockville in long-term deal at Daytona International Speedway
Welcome to Rockville will be annual presence at Daytona International Speedway for at least the next decade, based on a contract announced in August during the run-up to the Coke Zero Sugar 400 in Daytona Beach.
Danny Wimmer, founder of Danny Wimmer Presents, and Daytona International Speedway President Frank Kelleher announced the landmark 10-year agreement at a press conference on Aug. 22, locking the music festival into its Speedway location through 2035.
“There could not be a better place to host a festival,” Wimmer said at the track, sitting on a podium with Kelleher and NASCAR driver Carson Hocevar, whose No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet ZL1s is adorned with Rockville promotional images in the 2025 season.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona’s Welcome to Rockville reveals full 2026 lineup for heavy-metal festival
Reporting by Jim Abbott, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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