Aftershock festival
2024 Aftershock Festival Rocked by Iron Maiden, Slayer, and Slipknot: Recap + Photos
The four-day Sacramento fest also featured Pantera, Mötley Crüe, Till Lindemann, Body Count, Halestorm, and more. 2024 Aftershock Festival Rocked by Iron Maiden, Slayer, and Slipknot: Recap + Photos Raymond Ahner
Aftershock Festival 2022 Lineup: Foo Fighters, Slipknot, KISS, My Chemical Romance, and More
The lineup for Aftershock Festival 2022 has been revealed, with Foo Fighters, Slipknot, KISS, and My Chemical Romance set to headline. The annual festival runs from October 6th through the 9th at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California. Other notable acts on the bill include Judas Priest, Rob Zombie, Evanescence, Lamb of God, GWAR, Meshuggah, Stone Temple Pilots, Bring Me the Horizon, Bad Religion, Papa Roach, The Distillers, Action Bronson, Killswitch Engage, Clutch, Code Orange, The Pretty Reckless, The Interrupters, Thrice, Underoath, Zeal & Ardor, Spiritbox, Helmet, Amigo the Devil Three-day GA ($359.99), single-day GA ($119.99), and weekend VIP ($699.99) festival passes are available to purchase via Aftershock’s website. Advertisement You can view the day-by-day lineup in th...
Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance and Slipknot Headline Aftershock Festival
Aftershock, the West Coast’s biggest rock festival, will return on October 6-9, 2022 at Discovery Park in Sacramento. The festival will be its biggest to date, spanning four entire days, with four stages, and over 90 bands. Tickets are now on sale on the Aftershock website here. [embedded content][embedded content] In 2021, the festival set records with its sold-out attendance of 145,000, the fifth consecutive sold-out Aftershock festival. Considering the festival is bigger than ever this year, another sold-out festival seems to be in the cards. Headliners include Slipknot and Rob Zombie (Thursday), KISS and Judas Priest (Friday), My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach (Saturday), and Foo Fighters and Shinedown (Sunday). Additional notable artists include Bring Me The Horizon, Evanescenc...
Aftershock Festival 2021 Rocked by Metallica, Misfits, Machine Gun Kelly, Mudvayne, Rancid, and More: Photos + Video
After being forced to pull the plug on last year’s event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Aftershock festival returned to Discovery Park in Sacramento over the weekend, and put on an even bigger (and louder) event than in years past. With a newly expanded four-day lineup and two nights of Metallica, the California rock extravaganza was nothing short of yet another success for Danny Wimmer Presents. The newly added Thursday bill featured Bay Area thrash legends Death Angel, Exodus (with drummer Tom Hunting playing his first show back after recently undergoing successful cancer surgery) and Testament. Also on the opening-day lineup were Anthrax, hardcore upstarts Knocked Loose, and headliners Cypress Hill (who replaced Faith No More, who themselves had replaced Limp Bizkit). Day 2 (Friday) ...
Aftershock Festival 2021 Rocked by Metallica, Misfits, Machine Gun Kelly, Mudvayne, Rancid, and More: Photos + Video
After being forced to pull the plug on last year’s event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Aftershock festival returned to Discovery Park in Sacramento over the weekend, and put on an even bigger (and louder) event than in years past. With a newly expanded four-day lineup and two nights of Metallica, the California rock extravaganza was nothing short of yet another success for Danny Wimmer Presents. The newly added Thursday bill featured Bay Area thrash legends Death Angel, Exodus (with drummer Tom Hunting playing his first show back after recently undergoing successful cancer surgery) and Testament. Also on the opening-day lineup were Anthrax, hardcore upstarts Knocked Loose, and headliners Cypress Hill (who replaced Faith No More, who themselves had replaced Limp Bizkit). Day 2 (Friday) ...
The Original Misfits Replace My Chemical Romance at the 2021 Aftershock Festival
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-07T21:20:11+00:00“>May 7, 2021 | 5:20pm ET The 2021 Aftershock Festival lost one of its big headliners when My Chemical Romance decided to put off any touring until 2022, but the Sacramento, California, event has rebounded with a killer replacement: the Original Misfits. That’s right, Glenn Danzig and company will top the Saturday (October 9th) lineup, with Metallica headlining the Friday (October 8th) and Sunday (October 10th) bills. After last year’s edition of Aftershock was postponed due to the pandemic, promoter Danny Wimmer Presents announced that scheduled 2020 headliners Metallica and My Chemical Romance had committed to the 2021 event. The festival also added a fourth ni...
Metallica, My Chemical Romance to Headline Expanded 2021 Aftershock Festival
Aftershock 2021 will be headlined by Metallica (performing two different sets, one on Friday and one on Sunday) and My Chemical Romance (Saturday), who were both confirmed for the sold-out 2020 event. The 2021 lineup will also include Limp Bizkit, Rancid, The Offspring, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Volbeat, Machine Gun Kelly, Mastodon, Gojira, SEETHER, Parkway Drive and many more. “We can’t wait to play at Aftershock 2021 with our Bay Area brothers Metallica,” Rancid said in a statement. “We first played with them on the Lollapalooza tour in 1996 along with the Ramones and later down the road we toured across South America together. It’s gonna be wild, see ya in the pit!” In 2019, Aftershock celebrated its biggest-ever year with 97,500 in attendance during the sold-out...
