Scion Rock Fest was an annual heavy metal music festival held in various cities throughout the United States. The festival lineups included bands from several genres of metal, such as death metal, grindcore, doom metal, metalcore, and experimental metal, and booked headliners that include Cannibal Corpse, Mastodon, Morbid Angel, Down, and Sleep. The festival was produced by Scion's lifestyle marketing brand, Scion AV, and admission was free every year. Live video recordings and band interviews were also 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 five festivals that occurred since 2009 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 LineupOutdoor StageThe Masquerade "Hell"The Masquerade "Purgatory"The Masquerade "Heaven"Mastodon Neurosis High on Fire Pig Destroyer Boris Baroness Torche Kylesa1349 Nachtmystium (did not perform) Wolves in the Throne Room Krallice Withered U.S. Christmas Salome Apocalyptic VisionsZoroaster Coalesce Týr Rwake Harvey Milk A Storm of Light Alestorm Suidakra GaylordConverge 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 LineupNewport Music HallSkully'sBernie's DistilleryCircusCannibal Corpse Voivod D.R.I. 3 Inches of Blood Hate Eternal Landmine MarathonShrinebuilder YOB Pelican Acrassicauda Struck By Lightning Black TuskAbsu Ludicra Black Anvil Liturgy Lightning Swords of Death Lullabye ArkestraBrutal 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 LineupFox TheaterThe Glass HouseOutdoor Tent #1Outdoor Tent #2Morbid Angel Obituary Agalloch Floor Kvelertak (did not perform) Crom Black Cobra (replaced Kvelertak)Municipal Waste Death Angel Immolation Atheist Bonded by Blood Christian MistressIntegrity Bastard Noise Black Breath Nails Primate Fuck the Facts WormrotAnaal 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 LineupThe Ritz YborThe OrpheumCzar BarCrowbarDown Sleep Saint Vitus Church of Misery Witch Mountain Atlas MothExodus Suffocation Origin Revocation Decapitated Party Time FlyingsnakesMerzbow + Balázs Pándi Oxbow Wold Psychic TV Vermapyre Ides of GeminiRepulsion 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 LineupNew DaisyHandy ParkClub 152Hard Rock CafeCoyote UglyTestament Melvins Municipal Waste Corrosion of Conformity Vektor A Life Once LostWhitechapel Six Feet Under Noisem Impaled Arsis Gigan Complete FailureThe Obsessed Pallbearer The Gates of Slumber SubRosa Ice Dragon Inter ArmaThe Casualties Negative Approach Touché Amoré Vision of Disorder Code Orange Kids Rotting Out Call of the VoidRoyal 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 LineupFox TheaterThe Glass HouseSky Fox LoungeAcerogamiMachine Head High on Fire Red Fang Crowbar Orchid Big Business King BuzzoMidnight BL'AST! Exhumed Power Trip In Cold Blood Speedwolf NekrogoblikonCoffins Jex Thoth Windhand Lord Dying MOAB Black Sheep WallAqua 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, the American sludge metal band Eyehategod announced on their Facebook page that they had been banned by Scion Audio/Visual 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 Audio/Visual 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.
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