How to get Welcome to Rockville tickets: 2025 lineup, dates, and prices

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Daytona’s heavy metal music festival, Welcome to Rockville, is back in May 2025 with an all-star lineup, bringing some of the genre's biggest new and classic names to the stage for a legendary 4-day weekend. With the countdown to the annual festival winding down, here’s everything you need to know about how to buy Welcome to Rockville 2025 tickets, the festival schedule, and lineup details.

The 2025 event marks the 14th Welcome to Rockville festival since it debuted in May 2011. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only the 2020 festival was missed. Since changing the festival location from Jacksonville to Daytona Beach, Florida, in 2020, heavy metal bands and fans gather at the Daytona International Speedway each year for a full four-day weekend of rock.

Welcome to Rockville 2025 takes over Daytona International Speedway this year from Thursday, May 15, until Sunday, May 18. The lineup across the weekend also includes big names like Linkin Park, Green Day, Rob Zombie, Good Charlotte, and Korn as headliners. With five stages at the venue, there’s no shortage of heavy metal and hard rock to enjoy throughout the festival.

We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for how to get Welcome to Rockville 2025 tickets. Here’s our breakdown of Welcome to Rockville’s music festival schedule and lineup, purchasing details, and price comparisons between resale and original passes. You can also browse festival details on StubHub and Vivid Seats at your convenience.

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Welcome to Rockville’s 2025 festival schedule

While Welcome to Rockville is a four-day event between May 15 to 18, the festival offers different ticket options to appeal to those looking to attend the full weekend or single days. However, ticket prices for single-day tickets vary depending on the date, with Friday and Saturday passes coming in at higher rates than Thursday and Sunday.

Though Welcome to Rockville has yet to reveal the specific time of performances officially, they have confirmed the lineup with which days the artists will take the stage at Daytona International Speedway. The weekend headliners include Shinedown on Thursday, Green Day on Friday, Linkin Park on Saturday, and Korn on Sunday.

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How to buy tickets for Welcome to Rockville’s 2025 music festival

You can purchase original tickets to the 2025 music festival directly through Welcome to Rockville’s website (powered by Front Gate Tickets). The site still has passes for all ticket options, including general admission and VIP, but the inventory is running low for some selections.

Tickets to Welcome to Rockville 2025 can be purchased through verified resale ticket vendors like StubHub and Vivid Seats. You may find more price variety on these sites for different ticket options.

How much are Welcome to Rockville tickets?

Welcome to Rockville ticket prices vary depending on the pass type and day. While four-day passes are the most expensive, single-day general admission ticket prices differ by date. However, for a four-day festival with some of the biggest names in heavy metal and hard rock, the relatively high starting original ticket prices are worth the cost for fans.

Four-day general admission tickets sold directly from Welcome to Rockville’s website start at $400 plus fees. Welcome to Rockville 2025 offers a more expensive four-day VIP ticket option, starting at $680 before fees. Meanwhile, four-day general admission passes sold through resale sites begin at comparatively cheaper costs. On StubHub, the most affordable of this option starts at $272, with Vivid Seats’ available four-day GA passes beginning at an even lower price of $257.

For those only looking for single-day entry on Thursday, May 15, the price for an original Thursday-only pass at $160 pre-fees on Welcome to Rockville’s site. The starting price increases by $20 for Friday-only original tickets, costing $180 before fees and taxes. Single-day original ticket prices for Saturday go back down slightly, starting at $170. The cheapest single-day ticket directly through Welcome to Rockville is on Sunday, when the price begins at $150 before fees.

VIP single-day passes are also available throughout the Welcome to Rockville 2025 weekend. Thursday-only VIP ticket prices start at $260, and Friday, Saturday, or Sunday-only VIP tickets begin at $270—all before taxes and fees.

Single-day general passes for Welcome to Rockville 2025 being sold through resale vendors begin at similar prices to the cost of original tickets. Thursday-only ticket prices start at $186 on StubHub or $187 on Vivid Seats. Meanwhile, Friday-only passes begin at $186 on StubHub or a relatively most costly $232 on Vivid Seats. Available Saturday-only GA tickets start at $178 on StubHub or $190 on Vivid Seats. The Sunday-only Welcome to Rockville 2025 tickets available on StubHub start at $181, while the same option on Vivid Seats begins at a comparatively cheaper $114.

Who is in the Welcome to Rockville lineup?

The 2025 Welcome to Rockville lineup features established and up-and-coming names in heavy metal, hard rock, and punk music. There are also a few returning acts from previous festival editions, such as Rob Zombie, Alice in Chains, Shinedown, and Korn. Below, we’ve provided a breakdown of which acts will be performing on which days at the 2025 Welcome to Rockville music festival:

Thursday, May 15:

• Shinedown, Rob Zombie, Three Days Grace (with Adam Gontier), Halestorm, 3 Doors Down, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine, Body Count, Theory of a Deadman, Blue October, Asking Alexandria, Arch Enemy, We Came as Romans, Crossfade, Exodus, GWAR, Quicksand, Fit for a King, Health, From Ashes to New, Converge, Evans Blue, Finger Eleven, The Acacia Strain, Saving Abel, Shadow of Intent, Frozen Soul, Smile Empty Soul, Royale Lynn, Until I Wake, Full of Hell, Harm’s Way, Of Virtue, The Pretty Wild, CANDY, Gates to Hell, and Big Ass Truck

Friday, May 16:

• Green Day, Alice in Chains, Good Charlotte, Sublime, Knocked Loose, Jimmy Eat World, BUSH, Killswitch Engage, New Found Glory, Underoath, Jinjer, Candlebox, Everclear, Kublai Khan TX, Bowling for Soup, August Burns Red, Miss May I, Lit, Dorothy, Saosin, Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, All That Remains, ERRA, Invent Animate, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Dexter & the Moonrocks, Incendiary, Alesana, Boundaries, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Silent Planet, It Dies Today, One Step Closer, Butcher Babies, Left to Suffer, I Set My Friends on Fire, Bleed from Within, and As You Were

Saturday, May 17:

• Linkin Park, Incubus, Pierce the Veil, I Prevail, Beartooth, Mastodon, Taking Back Sunday, Acid Bath, Hollywood Undead, Sleeping with Sirens, Dayseeker, P.O.D., Hoobastank, Bilmuri, Of Mice & Men, Obituary, All Shall Perish, Whitechapel, Set it Off, Municipal Waste, Attila, After the Burial, The Plot in You, Nails, Emmure, Escape the Fate, Sleep Theory, Brand of Sacrifice, Havok, Real Friends, The Funeral Portrait, Upon a Burning Body, Angelmaker, NERV, Nevertel, Liliac, Chained Saint, and Dead Heat

Sunday, May 18:

• Korn, Bad Omens, Marilyn Manson, Mudvayne, Motionless in White, Chevelle, Chiodos, Power Trip, Daughtry, Insane Clown Posse, Chimaira, Sevendust, Testament, Deafheaven, Filter, Blessthefall, Memphis May Fire, Sunami, The Black Dahlia Murder, Hawthorne Heights, Seven Hours After Violet, Fit for an Autopsy, Gatecreeper, Snot, Pain of Truth, Sanguisugabogg, The Union Underground, Dry Kill Logic, Attack Attack!, Caskets, A Skylit Drive, Wind Walkers, Allt, 200 Stab Wounds, PeelingFresh, Return to Dust, Mugshot, and Bodybox