Welcome To Rockville 2025
Rock fans, start your engines! Held at the infield of the historic Daytona International Speedway, “Welcome to Rockville 2025” is set to be one of the festival’s most successful years to date. After record-breaking attendance over the course of last year’s event, `Danny Wimmer Presents’ (DWP) announced their largest and most stacked lineup to date. With a wide range of alternative, rock and metal genres, including golden sets from reunited bands such as Three Days Grace, Crossfade, Acid Bath and Snot; to heavy hitting up-and-coming artists like From Ashes To New, Big Ass Truck, and Left To Suffer; to cult classics including Insane Clown Posse, Korn, Linkin Park, Marylin Manson, and over a hundred more acts, this musical symposium is sure to have something for everyone.
Taking place on May 15th-May 18th, 2025, with a projected attendance of over 200,000 people, Welcome to Rockville has been named the largest rock festival in North America. Rockvillans have traveled from fifty-seven countries (including New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait, France, Angola and more) and all fifty US states to attend this monumental gathering. Camping passes and hotel packages are available for purchase along with both 4-day passes as well as single day passes on the Welcome to Rockville website. Don’t forget to decorate your campsite for the Rock ‘N Roll Time Machine competition, more details on the Rockville Instagram page.
This year marks the 14th anniversary of the festival’s occurrence and DWP are pulling out all the stops. 2025’s lineup features over 150 performing artists. Shinedown, 3 Doors Down, Rob Zombie, Jinjer, Alice In Chains, Green Day, Incubus, Hollywood Undead, Chevelle, Bad Omens, Mudvayne, Theory of a Deadman, P.O.D., Daughtry, Pierce The Veil, Motionless in White, Sevendust, Sleeping With Sirens, and Halestorm are just a few of that many acts available for attendees to catch while enjoying the festival. From a survey taken by 15,000 of the Rockvillans who attended 2024, 95% said they would recommend Rockville to family and friends, and more than 70% bought passes to all 4 days of last year’s event.
Set times will be announced roughly two weeks prior to the event, likely around May 1st, on all Rockville socials as well as the Welcome to Rockville app. 100% recommend installing the easy-to-use program for multiple reasons. It allows the user to customize a schedule based on the attendees personal music preferences. By choosing the sets they would like to catch, the app creates their own festival lineup with set times, locations and conflicting sets. It also includes a copy of the festival map for easy venue navigation, making it simple to get to the correct stage, locate the nearest restroom, find a water station, purchase some merch, or track down refreshments.
Rockville welcomes music fans of all ages, but does stipulate that it will be an adult festival environment which could include mature themes and behavior as well as strong language that may not be suitable for the young viewers. The festival does state that parental discretion is advised. As always be sure to dress for the weather, (High 80’s and HUMID) and the website does state that spikes and chains will not be allowed in the venue, so keep that in mind when planning your daily fits! A hat and/or sunglasses are a MUST!
The festival does feature a cashless payment system, they will be accepting credit and debit cards, RFID wristbands, as well as Google/Apple Pay and Tap to Pay transactions. There will be reverse ATMS on site for those who miss this memo to transform their cash into a prepaid card that can be used both inside and outside the festival grounds. These methods of payment will be accepted by all vendors, food/beverage stands, rides and merch booths. Cash will be accepted only for day of show parking passes.
Rockville is also hosting a pre-party on Wednesday the 14th, at the Speedway, to turn the four day experience into five. This event will feature performances from Pop Evil, Josey Scott (original vocalist for Saliva), Nonpoint, Deadly Apples, and whichever artist wins the iHeartRadio Battle of the Bands (TBA).
Traveling for this occasion doesn’t just include the opportunity to see the artists on the lineup but also to explore nearby beaches, check out local restaurants and culture, get inked at one of Florida’s many tattoo parlors, snag some fresh seafood, or go hit up Universal Studios for some magic and adventure!
All in all, Welcome to Rockville 2025 is shaping up to be one of the best and biggest festivals of the year, so snag those tickets and camping passes, go book those flights and get ready to ROCK!