Epicenter (music festival)

{{Short description|Annual music festival}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox music festival

| name = Epicenter

| image = 220px

| caption = KISS Performing at Epicenter 2010

| location = Southern California, Rockingham Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway

| years_active = 2009–2013, 2015, 2019, 2020

| dates = Multiple

| genre = Hard rock, heavy metal, post-hardcore, progressive metal

| website = {{URL|epicenterfestival.com/}}

}}

Epicenter was a rock festival featuring acts on multiple stages started by Danny Wimmer Presents in Southern California where it was sponsored by KROQ.{{Cite web |last=Nguyen |first=Carlin |date=September 26, 2010 |title=KROQ Epicenter |url=http://www.losangelesdigest.com/2010/09/26/kroq-epicenter |website=Los Angeles Digest}}

Continuing in North Carolina, in 2019 Epicenter took the place of the Carolina Rebellion.{{Cite web |date=November 30, 2018 |title=New festival Epicenter replaces Carolina Rebellion in North Carolina |url=https://consequence.net/2018/11/epicenter-festival-replaces-carolina-rebellion-north-carolina/ |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Consequence of Sound}}

The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web |date=March 23, 2020 |title=Epicenter 2020 Music Festival Cancelled Due To Coronavirus |url=https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2020/03/23/epicenter-2020-announces-lineup-metallica-disturbed-lynyrd-skynyrd-and-more/ |access-date=March 2, 2025 |website=wccbcharlotte}}

Event

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Date

! Location

! colspan="4" | Lineup

August 22, 2009

|Fairplex – Pomona, California{{Cite web |date=August 22, 2009 |title=Epicenter Festival 2009 |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/epicenter-festival-2009 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Concert Archives}}

| colspan="4" | Main stage: Tool, Linkin Park with Dead by Sunrise, Alice in Chains, Wolfmother, Atreyu, Hollywood Undead, Street Sweeper Social Club, DJ "Scratch N Sniff"

Monster Energy stage: Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Paper Tongues, Sonny, After Midnight Project

September 25–26, 2010

|Auto Club Speedway – Fontana, California{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2010 |title=Epicenter Festival 2010 @ Auto Club Speedway |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/epicenter-festival-2010 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Concert Archives}}

| colspan="2" | Day 1

Main stage: Kiss, Eminem, Bush, Papa Roach, Big Boi, Crash Kings, Deuce (formerly of Hollywood Undead)

Monster Energy stage: House of Pain, Big B with Scott Russo (from Unwritten Law), The Knux, Smile Empty Soul, Kinda Major, The Envy

VIP stage: DMX

| colspan="2" |Day 2

Main stage: Blink-182, Rise Against, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bad Religion, Against Me!, A Day to Remember, The Academy Is...

Monster Energy stage: Suicidal Tendencies, The Black Pacific, New Politics, Black Veil Brides, Biffy Clyro

September 24, 2011

|Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Irvine, California{{Cite press release |title=Epicenter 2011 Press Release |date=June 21, 2011 |url=http://rockontherange.com/epicenter/docs/Epicenter_PressRelease_6.21.pdf |access-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311062007/http://rockontherange.com/epicenter/docs/Epicenter_PressRelease_6.21.pdf |archive-date=March 11, 2012 |url-status=dead}}

| colspan="4" |Limp Bizkit, Staind, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, Everlast, Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, P.O.D., Skillet, Crossfade, Red, Asking Alexandria, Redlight King, Middle Class Rut, Drive A

September 22, 2012

|Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Irvine, California{{Cite web |date=September 22, 2012 |title=Epicenter Festival 2012 @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/epicenter-festival-2012 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Concert Archives}}

| colspan="4" |Stone Temple Pilots, Deftones, Bush, Scars on Broadway, Chevelle, Hollywood Undead, Escape the Fate, Dead Sara, Crash Kings, Hyro Da Hero, Beware of Darkness

September 21, 2013

|Verizon Wireless Amphitheater – Irvine, California{{Cite web |title=Epicenter 2013 - Festival Outlook |url=https://consequence.net/festival/epicenter-2013/ |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Consequence of Sound}}

| colspan="4" |The Offspring, A Day to Remember, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Pierce the Veil, All Time Low, Falling in Reverse, The Wonder Years, Fidlar, New Beat Fund, Plague Vendor

March 14, 2015

|The Forum, – Inglewood, California{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2015 |title=Epicenter Festival 2015 |url=https://en.concerts-metal.com/concert_-_Epicenter_Festival_2015-16898.html |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=Agenda Concerts-Metal |location=Inglewood, California, United States}}

| colspan="4" |Korn, Limp Bizkit, House of Pain, P.O.D., Suicidal Tendencies, Hopsin

May 10–12, 2019

|Rockingham Speedway - Rockingham, North Carolina{{Cite web |date=November 30, 2018 |title=Epicenter Festival 2019 Lineup - May 10 - 12, 2019 |url=https://www.jambase.com/festival/epicenter-festival-2019 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |website=JamBase}}

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Day 1

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, Ded, Arrested Youth, Vein, Black Coffee

| colspan="2" |

Day 2

Tool, Judas Priest, The Cult, Bush, Black Label Society, Circa Survive, Yelawolf, Motionless in White, The Damned Things, Grandson, Badflower, Memphis May Fire, Light the Torch, Wage War, Crobot, Dead Girls Academy, Sylar, Counterfeit, Pretty Vicious, Shvpes, Dirty Honey, Alien Weaponry, Hyde, Tetrarch

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Day 3

Foo Fighters, Bring Me the Horizon, 311, Live, Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Architects, The Interrupters, 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

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