Scott Rockenfield

Scott Rockenfield (born June 15, 1963), also known as SRock, is an American drummer and composer. He is best known as the drummer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, which he co-founded in 1982, and the hard rock band Slave to the System.

Biography Early years Rockenfield was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. That Christmas, his parents got him a cheap drum kit. he took special interest in music and film. Guitarist Kelly Gray, who would be a guitarist in Queensrÿche between 1998 and 2002 and with whom Rockenfield played in Slave to the System, went to the same high school and graduated in the same year as Rockenfield. They covered songs from popular heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

Rockenfield and Paul Speer wrote and recorded an instrumental progressive rock album in 2000 entitled Hells Canyon, which is inspired by places and events in the Idaho region of Hells Canyon. The album received good reviews. In 2001, Rockenfield collaborated with former Queensrÿche guitarist Kelly Gray and the Brother Cane members Damon Johnson and Roman Glick in a hard rock project named Slave to the System, releasing one eponymous album. Their album was re-released in 2006 on Spitfire Records.

In 2017, Rockenfield took a hiatus from Queensrÿche which was originally supposed to last for a few months but then prolonged indefinitely. Former singer Geoff Tate later expressed concern for Rockenfield, suggesting that he was in a difficult life situation. Current singer Todd La Torre suggested it was unlikely Rockenfield would ever return to the band. On November 1, 2023, lawyers for Rockenfield, as plaintiff, and Jackson as Wilton, as defendants, filed notice with Snohomish County Superior Court that they had reached a settlement and requested that "all claims, counterclaims, and crossclaims" be dismissed with prejudice and all parties be responsible for bearing their own costs.

Composer and entrepreneur Out of all the members of Queensrÿche, Rockenfield is the most active musically outside of the band Queensrÿche.

In 1997, Rockenfield and Speer created a music and video work named "TeleVoid", for which they received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Longform Video" category. In 2013 he scored the trailer to the films After Earth and he will be scoring the trailer for the 2014 remake of RoboCop. They have three children. His hobbies include photography.

Discography

Queensrÿche

With Paul Speer TeleVoid (1997) Hells Canyon (2000)

Slave to the System Slave to the System (2002/2006)

Solo The X Chapters (2008) Unchained (2025)

Headless Growing Apart (2013)

Soundtrack appearances Title Release With Soundtrack "Prophecy" 1988Queensrÿche The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years "Last Time in Paris" 1990 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane "Real World" 1993 Last Action Hero