The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders.

The festival is, nowadays, considered as the largest rock festival in Austria with bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine, Sex Pistols, Stone Temple Pilots, Rammstein, Linkin Park, Slipknot and more performing at it.

Muse headlined the 2022 Nova Rock Festival, together with Placebo, Kraftklub, Volbeat and Five Finger Death Punch. The show was planned to take place in 2020, but had to be cancelled twice, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, both in 2020 and 2021. This left Muse to be the only headliner to stay as announced originally. This also marked the first time Muse performed at the Nova Rock Festival.