Adrenalin Festival 2016

**Adrenalin Festival 2016** was a rock/metal festival held at the Porterfield Country Music Festival grounds on August 20, 2016. The festival was infamous for being a trainwreck in the making, with many acts dropping out, several riots and arrests and a bunch of controversy that was given two nicknames of "Woodstock 1999 2.0" and "Jamfest 1999 2.0".

## Backstory

Adrenalin Festival was announced on July 31st 2016, notable headliners included the likes of Korn, Gorillaz, Steel Panther, Xanadu, Crossfire and King Kat. A lot of smaller bands played at the festival, including a then-still new to the deathcore scene Necronation. Things started to go downhill when the first three headliners cancelled their planned gigs, a fact that was not known to fans. Then came the day of the festival, over 100,000 people showed up to the site. The festival grounds were not capable of that kind of capacity, Adrenalin Festival's Facebook page said that upwards to 200 vendors were planned to be at the festival providing food and drink for all. However, only one food truck showed up which was crowded with hungry fans, some of them began dealing LSD, meth and weed to people.

One person said that they waited 3 hours in line just to get a soda, however there were reported masturbating from people at the porta potties, which the semen was poured out to become this white blob. When the festival started, the fans were in positive mood when the opening bands performed, but after I Prevail's performance, their moods were soured when they found out that Korn, Gorillaz and Steel Panther were not to be performing, so the fans took their anger out on the four acts still remaining,

Necronation vocalist Chris Ryker threatened to cancel their set early if the crowd were to keep it up. There were a bunch of semen bits thrown at the bandmates, not long until Chris told the crowd to go rape a Lalaloopsy character, which was not the best saying as a bunch of rape cases started happening in the crowd, Crossfire experienced similar beratement from the crowd, it wasn't long until the band stopped after playing 4 songs. The next band to perform was Xanadu, who thought performing covers of the cancelled first three headliners would help ease the crowd. This first started with them attempting to cover Freak on a Leash by Korn, which was negatively received by the crowd. The band then tried to play It Ain't Going to Suck Itself by Steel Panther, which, again, was negatively received, this later went on to Kayla Dillon intentionally butchering the solo to the song. They later tried to play Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz, which, once again, was negatively received to which Jarad Mezzo intentionally screamed Del's first verse. The band then began playing their own songs, which agitated the crowd a lot more, they began to chant "We want Korn!", "We want Steel Panther!" and "We want Gorillaz!" in protest. Norman Reginald death threated the crowd to stop. But 1 minute into their seventh song on their set. The band left the stage in retaliation which the crowd cheered, with some crowd members laughing at them and very few crowd members masturbating to refill the semen blob.

The most controversial performance of all is King Kat, who was unaware of the whole situation played their riot inducing cover of Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit, which the crowd began to chop down trees, break parts of the set and attempt to go after the band. By the end of the festival, a fire was set by the sign where the wood remained. Once it was clear the festival was done and over with, the riots continued with multiple arrests being set.

## Aftermath

The festival holder was arrested for not handling the crowd properly and fraud behavior and was sentenced to life in prison by 2019. The festival's failure is remembered not only by fans, but by the performing bands as well. King Kat broke up to isolate themselves from the problem, Xanadu vowed never to perform a date in the Marinette-Porterfield area of Wisconsin ever again while Crossfire was pulled from future festival dates until 2021. Chris Ryker apologized for what he said after Necronation's early evening set in a YouNow livestream saying "I'm really sorry that I said that shit, I was unaware of what had occurred". In 2019, a documentary was released on Netflix called "No Adrenalin Here: the story of Adrenalin Festival", in 2023 a biopic called "Another Jamfest?" was released with very positive reviews.