West Coast’s Largest Rock, Punk & Metal Festival
Sacramento, Calif.- It’s lucky year 13 for Aftershock as producer Danny Wimmer Presents announces the highly anticipated lineup for The West Coast’s Largest Rock, Punk & Metal Festival, coming back to Discovery Park in Sacramento, California October 2 – 5, 2025.
The four-day destination event will feature 115+ bands on 4 stages, with a lineup of icons and emerging stars, topped by:
Headliners
- Thursday: Blink-182, Good Charlotte, All Time Low
- Friday: Deftones, A Perfect Circle, TURNSTILE
- Saturday: Korn, Bad Omens, Gojira
- Sunday: Bring Me The Horizon, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson

West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival
“Aftershock is the biggest rock, punk, and metal festival on the West Coast, and this year, it lined up perfectly for California fans. We’ve got legendary reunions, rare performances, and more California bands on this lineup than any Aftershock before,” says Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents. “Year after year, we’ve broken attendance records, and this one is set to be the biggest yet. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it. I hope to see you there.”
“We can’t wait to welcome Aftershock back to Sacramento this fall,” said Visit Sacramento President & CEO Mike Testa. “What began as a one-day event has become a totally immersive hard rock experience for some of the best fans in the world, and we’re excited that our city can be a part of it all.”
Lineup
Blink-182 Deftones Korn Bring Me The Horizon A Perfect Circle Bad Omens Rob Zombie Good Charlotte TURNSTILE Gojira Marilyn Manson Knocked Loose Three Days Grace (with Adam Gontier) Lamb of God Mudvayne All Time Low The All-American Rejects Motionless in White Acid Bath Bruce Dickinson Chevelle Slaughter To Prevail Dream Theater The Dillinger Escape Plan Taking Back Sunday Trivium Hollywood Undead In This Moment Chiodos Black Veil Brides Kerry King Mom Jeans Powerwolf Alkaline Trio Dayseeker Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm Cavalera Machine Head Power Trip Basement Chimaira | Testament Story of the Year Sunami State Champs Bowling For Soup Hoobastank Hinder Crossfade Static-X August Burns Red Hatebreed Imminence Exodus GWAR Bilmuri Carcass Alestorm DragonForce Death Angel All Shall Perish Get Scared Kittie Pop Evil Rev Theory Of Mice & Men Failure A Tribute to S.O.D. with Scott Ian Dan Lilker Jamey Jasta and Revel Ian DevilDriver 3 Inches of Blood Yngwie Malmsteen Memphis May Fire Dying Fetus Northlane The Plot In You Glare Fear Factory Spineshank DOPE | Hot Milk High On Fire Demon Hunter Seven Hours After Violet Nails Speed Trash Talk Scowl Violent Vira Snot Cattle Decapitation Lacuna Coil Gloryhammer LANDMVRKS Saliva Sleep Theory The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Sick Puppies Winds of Plague Spite Thrown Xibalba Six Feet Under Prong 12 Stones Dying Wish Quannnic The Ataris Nonpoint Born of Osiris Scary Kids Scaring Kids Dry Kill Logic Forbidden SPY Left To Suffer Thornhill Five Headed Cobra Return To Dust Snuffed On Sight |
Special appearances and reunions @ Aftershock 2025
- 3 Inches of Blood (Rare reunion show)
- 12 Stones (Reunion)
- A Tribute to S.O.D. with Scott Ian, Dan Lilker, Jamey Jasta, and Revel Ian
- Acid Bath (Reunion)
- All Shall Perish (Rare show / home area)
- Cattle Decapitation (Home state)
- Cavalera (Playing the brothers’ iconic Sepultura record, Chaos A.D., in full in a very rare, special performance)
- Chimaira (First West Coast show in 11 Years)
- Chiodos (Reunion)
- Crossfade (Reunion)
- Death Angel (Home area)
- Deftones (Hometown show)
- Demon Hunter (Rare show)
- DevilDriver (Home state)
- Dream Theater (40th anniversary)
- Exodus (“40 Years of Blood” celebrating 40th anniversary of their Bonded By Blood album / home area)
- Fear Factory (Celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Demanufacture / home state)
- Forbidden (Reunion / hometown area)
- Get Scared (Reunion)
- Good Charlotte (West Coast Festival Exclusive)
- GWAR (40th anniversary)
- High On Fire (Home area)
- In This Moment (Home state)
- Machine Head (Home area)
- Mom Jeans (Hometown)
- Nails (Home state)
- Power Trip (First reunion show in the Bay Area)
- Rev Theory (A DWP exclusive: The original lineup reunites for one of the band’s first shows since 2014 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album Truth Is Currency)
- Snot (Reunion / home state)
- Snuffed On Sight (Home area)
- Spineshank (Reunion / home state)
- Spite (Home area)
- Spy (Home area)
- Static-X (Home state)
- Sunami (Home area)
- The Dillinger Escape Plan (West Coast Reunion Show)
- Trash Talk (20th anniversary)
- Trivium (Celebrating 20th anniversary of Ascendency with full album play)
- Winds of Plague (Reunion / home state)
- Xibalba (Rare show / home state)
4-Day and Single-Day General Admission and VIP passes, as well as the brand-new 4-Day Capital Club SVIP are on sale now at https://aftershockfestival.com/passes/ for $1 down via layaway.
DWP has partnered with GOVX to offer exclusively priced 4-Day and Single-Day GA Aftershock passes for military, nurse, firefighter, and police personnel. Visit GovX.com for eligibility details.
Service fees on all pass purchases include a charity fee for the DWP Foundation, which gives back to local and national charities throughout the year.
Danny Wimmer Presents
Aftershock is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
In 2024, Aftershock welcomed 160,000 music fans from all 50 states and 30 countries around the world, bringing an estimated $30 million economic impact to California’s capital city.
Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento.
Discovery Park is conveniently located near downtown Sacramento at 1600 Garden Highway, where the American and Sacramento Rivers meet.