Scion Rock Fest

Scion Rock Fest
Genre	Death Metal, Grindcore, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Sludge Metal, Hardcore Punk, Metalcore, Experimental Metal
Location(s)	Atlanta, GA, Columbus, OH, Pomona, CA, Tampa, FL, Memphis, TN, United States
Years active	2009 to present
Website
www.scionav.com/rockfest

Scion Rock Fest is an annual heavy metal music festival held in various cities throughout the United States. The festival lineups include bands from several genres of metal, such as death metal, grindcore, doom metal, metalcore, and experimental metal, and has booked headliners that include Cannibal Corpse, Mastodon, Morbid Angel, Down, and Sleep. The festival is produced by Scion's lifestyle marketing brand, Scion AV, and admission has been free each year since its founding. Live video recordings and band interviews have also been released after each fest.

History

Scion Rock Fest was established in 2009 as part of Scion AV's involvement in the metal music genre. The four festivals that have occurred since 2009 have featured performances from 110 bands from all over North America, Europe, and Asia.

Venues & Lineups

2009

The first Scion Rock Fest took place on Saturday, February 28 in Atlanta, GA at The Masquerade and an outdoor stage.

2009 Lineup
Outdoor Stage	The Masquerade "Hell"	The Masquerade "Purgatory"	The Masquerade "Heaven"
Mastodon Neurosis High on Fire Pig Destroyer Boris Baroness Torche Kylesa	1349 Nachtmystium (did not perform) Wolves in the Throne Room Krallice Withered U.S. Christmas Salome Apocalyptic Visions	Zoroaster Coalesce Týr Rwake Harvey Milk A Storm of Light Alestorm Suidakra Gaylord	Converge Cryptopsy Septic Flesh Warbringer Toxic Holocaust Skeletonwitch Trash Talk Evil Army

2010

Scion Rock Fest 2010 took place on Saturday, March 13 at four venues in Columbus, OH.

2010 Lineup
Newport Music Hall	Skully's	Bernie's Distillery	Circus
Cannibal Corpse Voivod D.R.I. 3 Inches of Blood Hate Eternal Landmine Marathon	Shrinebuilder YOB Pelican Acrassicauda Struck By Lightning Black Tusk	Absu Ludicra Black Anvil Liturgy Lightning Swords of Death Lullabye Arkestra	Brutal Truth Magrudergrind Trap Them Thou Saviours Deadsea

2011

Scion Rock Fest 2011 took place on Saturday, March 5 at two venues and two outdoor stages in Pomona, CA.

2011 Lineup
Fox Theater	The Glass House	Outdoor Tent #1	Outdoor Tent #2
Morbid Angel Obituary Agalloch Floor Kvelertak (did not perform) Crom Black Cobra (replaced Kvelertak)	Municipal Waste Death Angel Immolation Atheist Bonded by Blood Christian Mistress	Integrity Bastard Noise Black Breath Nails Primate Fuck the Facts Wormrot	Anaal Nathrakh Dispirit Necrite The Body Cough Woe Dark Castle

2012

Scion Rock Fest 2012 took place on Saturday, June 2 at four venues in Tampa, FL.

2012 Lineup
The Ritz Ybor	The Orpheum	Czar Bar	Crowbar
Down Sleep Saint Vitus Church of Misery Witch Mountain Atlas Moth	Exodus Suffocation Origin Revocation Decapitated Party Time Flyingsnakes	Merzbow + Balázs Pándi Oxbow Wold Psychic TV Vermapyre Ides of Gemini	Repulsion Sick of it All Terror Phobia Cerebral Ballzy All Pigs Must Die Cellgraft

2013

On March 6, 2013, Scion announced that the next festival would take place on June 1, 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee. The full lineup for the 2013 festival was announced on March 26, 2013. The 2013 festival took place at five venues on Beale Street in Memphis.

2013 Lineup
New Daisy	Handy Park	Club 152	Hard Rock Cafe	Coyote Ugly
Testament Melvins Municipal Waste Corrosion of Conformity Vektor A Life Once Lost	Whitechapel Six Feet Under Noisem Impaled Arsis Gigan Complete Failure	The Obsessed Pallbearer The Gates of Slumber Subrosa Ice Dragon Inter Arma	The Casualties Negative Approach Touché Amoré Vision of Disorder Code Orange Kids Rotting Out Call of the Void	Royal Thunder The Shrine Indian Handcrafts Hot Lunch Dirty Streets ASG

2014

The 2014 Scion Rock Fest was announced on March 13, 2014 to take place in Pomona, CA. The full festival lineup was announced on March 25, 2014.

2014 Lineup
Fox Theater	The Glass House	Sky Fox Lounge	Acerogami
Machine Head High on Fire Red Fang Crowbar Orchid Big Business King Buzzo	Midnight BL'AST! Exhumed Power Trip In Cold Blood Speedwolf Nekrogoblikon	Coffins Jex Thoth Windhand Lord Dying MOAB Black Sheep Wall	Aqua Nebula Oscillator All Them Witches Hot Lunch The Well Pins of Light Carousel

Controversy

In the weeks leading up to the first Scion Rock Fest in 2009, Scion removed Nachtmystium from the lineup due to alleged ties to Nazism. The band's first album, Reign of the Malicious, was distributed via the National Socialist Black Metal record label Unholy Records. The band was outspoken about the accusations and denied any true ties to the Nazi movement.

Several months before Scion Rock Fest 2012 and before the final lineup had been officially announced, American sludge metal band Eyehategod announced on their Facebook page that they had been banned by Scion from performing at Scion Rock Fest. Brian Patton, a guitarist in the band, later told The Age of Metal in a phone interview that Scion had originally approached the band to perform at the 2012 festival, but later rescinded the offer due to their lyrical content and the religious connotations in the band's name.

External links

• Official website