Rock Fest

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Rock Fest
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal [1]
DatesJuly 13–16, 2022
Location(s) Cadott, Wisconsin
Years active1994-2019, 2021-
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.

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Rock Fest is the last independently run rock festival in the U.S. - where passion outplays corporations.

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.

2024 Lineup

Previous lineups

2023 [4]

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 [5]

Wednesday, July 13: Who's on Top: Warrant (headliner), Lita Ford, Firehouse, Paralandra
Budweiser's Boneyard Stage:, Versus Me, Otherwise, Islander, Dead Original

Thursday, July 14: Main Stage:, Disturbed (headliner), Lamb of God, Theory of a Deadman, Hatebreed, Ayron Jones, Fire from the Gods, Sweet Addiction
Who's on Top:, Unkle Daddy (after-party), Avatar (headliner, 1000th show), Spiritbox, Diamante, Ded, Wildstreet, The Midnight Devils
Jack's Tribute Stage: Peace of Mind, Rebel Queens
Loud & Local Stage: The Issue, Via
Budweiser's Boneyard Stage: NonGrata, Half Heard Voices, Seilies

Day 3, Friday July 15: Main Stage: Evanescence (headliner), Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Black Veil Brides, Butcher Babies, Volumes, Plague of Stars
Who's on Top: Fingertrick (after-party), Nothing More, Escape the Fate, John 5 (replaced Nita Strauss), Lilith Czar, Streetlight Circus, Bourbon House
Jack Daniel's Tribute Stage: Fresh Fighters, Sabbath Unleashed
Loud & Local Stage: Motherwind, Ignescent
Budweiser's Boneyeard Stage: Lydia Can't Breathe, Ratchet Dolls, Once Around, The Other LA

Day 4, Saturday July 16: Main Stage: Shinedown (headliner), Mudvayne, Jelly Roll, Starset, Shaman's Harvest, Lacey Sturm, Eaon
Who's on Top: Splitdriven (After-Party), Skillet (Headliner), Motionless in White, From Ashes to New, All Good Things, Divide the Fall, The Rumours
Jack Daniel's Tribute Stage: 10,000 days, Cowboys from Hell
Loud & Local Stage: Imperial Fall, Lake Effect
Budweiser's Boneyard Stage: Dreams Aside, Velvet Chains, Crashing Atlas

2021 [6]

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 (CMFT), 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 [7]

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 [8]

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.

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