Rock Fest

Rock Fest
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal [1]
Dates	Mid-July
Location	Cadott, Wisconsin
Years active	1994–2019, 2021–Present
Website	rock-fest.com

Rock Fest is a permanent music festival held annually in July on the Chippewa Valley Music Festival grounds in Cadott, WI.

Rock Fest is the last independently run rock festival in the U.S.

The venue includes more than 7,500 campsites for campers. The amphitheater concert grounds host four days of rock concerts by national music acts each year. On site there are convenience stores, merch stores, concessions, and side stages that feature regional acts between main stage performances.

Attendance

The annual attendance of Rock Fest is between 28,000 and 40,000 people daily, ^[2] although crowds can reach numbers as high as 80,000 people.

Lineups

2025

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Wednesday, July 16 Eve 6 Drowning Pool Born of Osiris A Killer's Confession Convictions Left On Red The Convalescence Hearts and Hand Grenades

Thursday, July 17 Rob Zombie Knocked Loose Slaughter to Prevail Architects Crossfade Kublai Khan TX The Plot in You Taproot Attila Dry Kill Logic Elijah Nuisance Fortunate Losers Lydia Can't Breathe Divide the Fall Gravel Crashing Wayward Crossbreed Dreams Aside Ignescent Dreamstereo Make Me Sick Valleykil Austin Marie

Friday, July 18 Five Finger Death Punch Marilyn Manson In This Moment Nothing More Yelawolf August Burns Red Dead Poet Society Vended Mushroomhead Royale Lynn Cane Hill Nevertel Dead Superstar Clozure Emperors and Angels White Crosses 21 to Burn Harsh Reality Entundra Soulcage The Failsafe Anfang Morningstar Ember

Saturday, July 19 Bad Omens Three Days Grace Ja Rule Poppy We Came as Romans Escape the Fate Scene Queen The Funeral Portrait Tim Montana Archers Return to Dust Throw the Fight Kings County Sinshrift Rebels Opera Dead Things Dellacoma 32 Headshots Normundy Shores of Acheron Small Town Sindrome Strange Days Un-Broken Seilies

2024

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Wednesday, July 17 Vince Neil (headliner) Quiet Riot Burning Witches Psychostick Shallow Side Feel Killakoi Evernoir

Thursday, July 18 Thirty Seconds to Mars (headliner) 311 Killswitch Engage Sevendust Dirty Honey Ayron Jones Upon a Burning Body Sleep Theory Citizen Soldier True Villains Crossbreed Until I Wake Cultus Black Softspoken

Friday, July 19 Shinedown (headliner) Parkway Drive Beartooth Atreyu From Ashes to New Stabbing Westward Cold I See Stars Saul Silent Theory Uncured City of the Weak Living Dead Girl Kazha

Saturday, July 20 Jelly Roll (headliner) Chevelle Of Mice & Men Fever 333 The 2 Live Crew Struggle Jennings Austin Meade Liliac Holy Wars Another Day Dawns Blue Felix Kingdom Collapse Ignescent Sepsiss

2023

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Wednesday, July 12 Soul Asylum Alien Ant Farm Gemini Syndrome Tallah The Lonely Ones No Resolve Moon Fever Widow7

Thursday, July 13 Pantera (headliner) Ice Cube In This Moment The Ghost Inside Jinjer Orianthi Suicide Silence Vended Fame on Fire Eva Under Fire Ghosts of the Mississippi Sin7 Scattered Hamlet Rebel Queens Weekend Picnic Mvrrow Magg Dylan Dark Heavens Giznad Thrash of the Titans Carbellion Saint Tragedy

Friday, July 14 Slipknot (headliner) Falling in Reverse Ice Nine Kills Asking Alexandria Wage War Mushroomhead Cherry Bombs Crobot Gideon Saul Emperors & Angels Nuisance Artifas 9th Planet Kingdom Collapse Versus Me Normundy The Almas Kings County Sons of Guns Shotgun Superstars Contingency FM Down

Saturday, July 15 Godsmack (headliner) Papa Roach Highly Suspect Everclear Gwar Dorothy 10 Years New Years Day Plush Dayseeker Silvertung Bourbon House The SoapGirls Ratchet Dolls Relent Citizen Kane Lovely World Drift Old Voltage The Hybrid Theory Scarlet The Over Unders

2022

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Wednesday, July 13 Warrant (headliner) Lita Ford Firehouse Otherwise Islander Versus Me Paralandra Dead Original

Thursday, July 14 Disturbed (headliner) Lamb of God Theory of a Deadman Avatar Hatebreed Ayron Jones Spiritbox Diamante Fire from the Gods Ded Wildstreet Sweet Addiction NonGrata Half Heard Voices Seilies Unkle Daddy The Midnight Devils Peace of Mind Rebel Queens The Issue Via

Friday, July 15 Evanescence (headliner) Halestorm The Pretty Reckless Nothing More Black Veil Brides Escape the Fate Butcher Babies John 5 (replaced Nita Strauss) Volumes Lilith Czar Streetlight Circus Plague of Stars Lydia Can't Breathe Ratchet Dolls Once Around The Other LA Ignescent Fingertrick Bourbon House Fresh Fighters Sabbath Unleashed Motherwind

Saturday, July 16 Shinedown (headliner) Mudvayne Jelly Roll Skillet Motionless in White Starset Shaman's Harvest From Ashes to New All Good Things Lacey Sturm Divide the Fall Eaon Dreams Aside Velvet Chains Crashing Atlas Splitdriven The Rumours Imperial Fall 10,000 Days Cowboys from Hell Lake Effect

2021

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Wednesday, July 14 Queensrÿche Slaughter Joyous Wolf Royal Bliss The Black Moods Stitched Up Heart Modern Mimes Unkle Daddy

Thursday, July 15 Rob Zombie (headliner) Staind Anthrax Steel Panther Saint Asonia Memphis May Fire Fozzy Nonpoint Fire from the Gods Carnifex Any Given Sin GFM Falling Through April Scattered Hamlet Jett Threatt NIVRANA Digital Homicide Anything But Human Drama Queen Contingency Ignescent

Friday, July 16 Limp Bizkit (headliner) Corey Taylor Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals Badflower Of Mice & Men Tommy Vext All That Remains Bones UK Blacktop Mojo Crobot City of the Weak Throw the Fight Siin Silvertung Wildstreet Fool Fighters Dressed to Kill Hammer Down Hard Distal Descent Strange Daze Caster Volor

Saturday, July 17 Korn (headliner) Danzig Chevelle Body Count Pop Evil We Came as Romans Gemini Syndrome Bad Omens Hyro the Hero Rachel Lorin Your Screaming Silence Evandale Stormbreaker Nuisance Gypsy Road Cowboys from Hell Strate Jak It Stellar Circuits Probable Cause FM Down

2020

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2020 Rock Fest organizers postponed due to COVID-19. Scheduled for July 16-18.

Rock Fest Organizers said in a statement "In working with local health officials, we were told that having a festival of our size in July is at too high of a risk due to COVID-19. This is an unprecedented situation that we have to take seriously. The health and safety of our fans and rock music community is and always will be our #1 concern!"

Fans were offered refunds or the opportunity to roll their tickets over to the following year.

2019

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Wednesday, July 17 Jackyl Stryper Kix BobaFlex Rachel Lorin He-Nis-Ra Silvertung Streetlight Circus

Thursday, July 18 Evanescence (headliner) Mastodon Skillet Starset Static-X Nonpoint DevilDriver Sylar Dope Rachel Lorin Revenant Soul Gabriel and the Apocalypse Sweet Addiction The 9th Planet Out Madman's Diary Bleak Sabbath The Zealots Cold Kingdom Krashkarma Stare Across Un-Broken

Friday, July 19 Five Finger Death Punch (headliner) Breaking Benjamin Three Days Grace Killswitch Engage Asking Alexandria Bad Wolves Ice Nine Kills From Ashes to New I See Stars Shallow Side Rachel Lorin Helivs Stormbreaker Days to Come Sin7 Who's Who Stone Type Pilots Ignescent Kore Rozzik Reason Define Catechize

Saturday, July 20 Rob Zombie (headliner) Marilyn Manson In This Moment I Prevail P.O.D. Lacuna Coil Red Sun Rising Ded Diamante Eve to Adam Jacob Cade The Rumours Lydia Can't Breathe A Light Divided Piranha TNT Roxz Neverwake Standing Alliance Electric Revolution

2018

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Wednesday, July 11 Ace Frehley Skid Row Autograph SOiL Beyond Threshold Blacklite District Hammer Down Hard Filthy Sweet

Thursday, July 12 Incubus (headliner) Rise Against Seether Nothing More Gwar Beartooth Red Through Fire Blacktop Mojo Dead Girls Academy The Missing Letters Old Voltage NIVRANA Nuisance Scattered Hamlet Brokenrail Everyday Losers Lydia Can't Breather GT3 Lady Luck

Friday, July 13 Godsmack (headliner} Halestorm Bush Dee Snider Pop Evil Trivium Fozzy Otep Ded Shallow Side Amerikan Overdose Cowboys From Hell Black Rainbow Arena Crashing Atlas Maryann Cotton Aedus Standing Alliance Picard Benjamin Raye Band

Saturday, July 14 Disturbed (headliner) A Day to Remember Black Label Society Underoath Sevendust Adelitas Way Powerman 5000 Attila Deadset Society Wayland GFM Ozzbournes Maiden Minneapolis The Goodbars Emissary Echo Screaming for Silence Hellbelly Strate Jak It Smiling Politely The Chagars

References

1. "Rock Fest 2022 Lineup". consequence.net. 27 January 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
2. "Rock Fest attendance strong". leadertelegram.com. 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
3. "History | Rock Fest-Music Festival In Wisconsin" . Retrieved 2026-01-23.
4. "JELLY ROLL, SHINEDOWN And THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS To Headline 2024 ROCK FEST". Blabbermouth.net . January 26, 2024. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
5. Erickson, Anne (January 20, 2023). "Rock Fest 2023 Lineup: Slipknot, Pantera, Godsmack, Ice Cube, GWAR, and More". Consequence. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
6. "History | Rock Fest-Music Festival In Wisconsin" . Retrieved 2022-10-16.
7. "Rock Fest". JamBase. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
8. Millard, Kevin. "Rockfest off for 2020". WXOW. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
9. "History | Rock Fest-Music Festival In Wisconsin" . Retrieved 2022-10-16.
10. "History | Rock Fest-Music Festival In Wisconsin" . Retrieved 2026-01-22.

External links

• Official Rock Fest website

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