Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, Tool, Papa Roach and more set for Welcome To Rockville

By Scott Munro
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Organisers of 2019’s Welcome To Rockville in Jacksonville, Florida, reveal next year’s lineup - tickets on sale this week

Organisers of the Welcome To Rockville festival have revealed the names of who will be taking to the stage in 2019.

The three-day event will take place at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 3-5 next year – and it promises to be something special with a AAA lineup of artists set to take part.

Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, Tool, Papa Roach, Killswitch Engage, The Cult, Incubus, Evanescence, Tom Morello, Shinedown and Tremonti will be joined by other artists including In This Moment, Black Label Society, Zeal & Ardor, Bring Me The Horizon and Architects.

Priest frontman Rob Halford says: “Judas Priest are primed and ready to unleash new Firepower with full metal fury on the USA again as we are one of the headliners at Welcome To Rockville in Jacksonville, Florida! The Priest is back!”

Chris Kilmore of Incubus adds: “We’re excited to return to Jacksonville and play at Welcome To Rockville in 2019! There are some great bands on the bill and we can’t wait to see our friends in Tool, The Prodigy, as well as many others. See you there!”

Tickets, VIP packages and camping passes will go on sale from 12noon ET on Friday (December 7).

Find out more on the official Welcome To Rockville website (opens in new tab), while the full lineup can be seen in the poster below.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.