# Scion Rock Fest

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 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, 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.