Foo Fighters, Tool, Korn Announced For NC’s Epicenter Festival

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Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs at Cal Jam 2017 on October 7, 2017 at Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino.

Danny Wimmer Presents’ newly announced Epicenter Festival in Rockingham, N.C., will feature a broad array of rock acts including Foo Fighters, Tool, Korn, Rob Zombie, Judas Priest, Bring Me The Horizon, The Cult, 311, Evanescence, Bush, Live and many more. The daily lineups have also been unveiled.

The festival will be held at the newly created Rockingham Festival Grounds May 10-12. Tickets to the event go on sale Dec. 14 at noon EST.

The daily lineup will see Korn, Rob Zombie, The Prodigy, Evanescence, Machine Gun Kelly, Meshuggah, Skillet, Beartooth, Dorthy and many more on May 10.

Tool, Judas Priest, The Cult, Bush, Black Label Society, Circa Survive, Yelawolf, Motionless In White, The Damned Things, Starset and others will take the stage May 11.

The final day will have Foo Fighters, Bring Me The Horizon, 311, Live, Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Architects, Tom Morello, Fever 333, Reignwolf, Yungblud and many more.

Initial ticket prices start at $149.50 plus fees for weekend general admission passes and $79.50 plus fees for single-day GA tickets. VIP packages are also available. DWP affiliate concessionaire Southern Hospitality Concessions LLC is handling the food and beverage options.

Epicenter was announced after DWP’s split with AEG, effectively ending the World’s Loudest Month festivals and several other collaborations. AEG filed suit against DWP over the situation, claiming the latter walked away from previous agreements without compensations and then announced competing events.

Epicenter is replacing the collaborative DWP-AEG event Carolina Rebellion, which was held in Concord, N.C., since 2013, but staged in Rockingham in 2012.

“We were trying to make 2019 happen with them,” DWP CEO Danny Hayes told Pollstar in response to the announcement of the lawsuit. “We hit that point of no return where you have to lock in venues and make offers to bands or there’s going to be no festival. The bands were saying, ‘Guys, if you don’t make offers soon, we’re going to have to go somewhere else.’ So we went to AEG and said, ‘What do you want to do?’ … Are we making offers on behalf of DWP or are we making them on behalf of DWP and AEG?’ At that moment we couldn’t make a deal, so I said ‘that’s too bad.’”

Sonic Temple was also announced for Columbus, Ohio, in 2019 on the same weekend and at the same location Rock On The Range was held in 2018.

“We believe the festival arms race has intensified. It’s either compete or die today, and if we’re gonna play in a league like Coachella, Outside Lands, and Lollapalooza, our festivals have to continue to grow,” Hayes told Pollstar at the time Sonic Temple was announced. “We at DWP really believe in making significant investments in each year’s installation of a festival. That the fans want to see dramatic and exciting growth year over year. Our partners just didn’t share that vision. They had more of a ‘Let’s keep a good thing going’ mentality.”

The full daily lineup for Epicenter (subject to change) is pasted below:

Friday, May 10: Korn, Rob Zombie, The Prodigy, Evanescence, Machine Gun Kelly, Meshuggah, Skillet, Beartooth, Mark Lanegan Band, Dorothy, Black Pistol Fire, Zeal & Ardor, Knocked Loose, Slothrust, Wilson, Hands Like Houses, Hyro The Hero, Amigo The Devil, Arrested Youth, Vein, Black Coffee and more TBD

Saturday, May 11: Tool, Judas Priest, The Cult, Bush, Black Label Society, Circa Survive, Yelawolf, Motionless In White, The Damned Things, Starset, Grandson, Badflower, Memphis May Fire, Issues, High On Fire, Wage War, Crobot, Sylar, Counterfeit., Pretty Vicious, Shvpes, Dirty Honey, Alien Weaponry, Hyde

Sunday, May 12: Foo Fighters, Bring Me The Horizon, 311, +Live+, Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Architects, Tom Morello, Fever 333, Reignwolf, Yungblud, The Glorious Sons, Ho99o9, While She Sleeps, Basement, Scarlxrd, Movements, Teenage Wrist, Demob Happy, Boston Manor, Cleopatrick, The Dirty Nil