The mathematics of Welcome to Rockville are staggering.
Over the course of four days, the festival at Daytona International Speedway saw more than 230,000 fans pass through the gates. For a frame of reference, Coachella's daily attendance for the 2025 installment was estimated at about 125,000 per day - a festival highly regarded as a global destination.
Some 150 bands across five stages, spanning four sun-soaked, action-packed days suggests the mammoth scope of Welcome to Rockville and yet barely scratches the surface. The assembled roster is the kind of line-up that transcends the nuance of heavy music all while appealing to multiple generations of fans of punk, hardcore, metal and beyond. Rockville has become not only one of the most anticipated domestic festivals on the year, but it has also become both the proving grounds and the showcase series for everyone that is anyone on the greater radar of heavy music and culture.
For veteran headlining artists, Rockville offers the biggest of stages to connect with fans and shine as vanguards of the scene. For emerging talent and promising prospects, an invitation to play Rockville is rite of passage and a healthy indicator of the bands that are truly worthy of the buzz.
For the concluding day four of Rockville at Daytona, that generational gap was better bridged with a run of show that ensured a balanced offering of veteran elite and emerging phenoms going back-to-back all day long. At the very top, KORN executed a kind of greatest hits set that spanned more than three decades of gamechanging brilliance. However, fans were left dazzled by the spectacle and showmanship of Bad Omens with the kind of set that served as a sort of coronation for heavy music's next festival headliner.
Proven names like Marilyn Manson, Mudvayne and Motionless In White towered with sets that were among the highlights on the day. Not to be outdone by the young guns in bands like Power Trip, Gatecreeper and Pain of Truth however, Rockville's final day for 2025 was a well-constructed showing of heavy music's formative, influential past coupled with the auspicious outlook of heavy music's very bright future.
Check the gallery of images from the final day of Welcome to Rockville 2025 at Daytona International Speedway.
SEE PHOTOS FROM WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE DAY 3 - HERE
KORN
Photos by Steve Thrasher
BAD OMENS
Photos by Jake Mulka
MARILYN MANSON
Photos by Steve Thrasher
MUDVAYNE
Photos by Lexie Alley
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
Photos by Lexie Alley
POWER TRIP
Photos by Austin Cooper
CHEVELLE
Photos by Steve Thrasher
FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY
Photos by Jake Mulka
GATECREEPER
Photos by Jake Mulka
PAIN OF TRUTH
Photos by Austin Cooper
SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET
Photos by Jake Mulka
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
