Aftershock Festival is set to return to Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, from October 2-5, 2025. Organized by Danny Wimmer Presents, the four-day event will feature 115+ bands across four stages, including 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

The lineup also features Lamb of God, Motionless in White, Dream Theater, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Static-X, Machine Head, Exodus, Chevelle, and many more. Special reunions include Chiodos, Crossfade, Acid Bath, Chimaira, and Spineshank, along with rare performances from Power Trip, Cavalera (playing Chaos A.D. in full), and The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Passes are on sale at this location.

Some of the special appearances and reunions at Aftershock 2025 will include:

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)
Cavalera (Playing the brothers’ iconic Sepultura record, Chaos A.D., in full)
Chimaira (First West Coast show in 11 Years)
Chiodos (Reunion)
Crossfade (Reunion)
Demon Hunter (Rare show)
Dream Theater (40th anniversary)
Exodus (“40 Years of Blood” celebrating 40th anniversary of their BondedBy Blood album)
Fear Factory (Celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Demanufacture)
Forbidden (Reunion)
Get Scared (Reunion)
Good Charlotte (West Coast Festival Exclusive)
GWAR (40th anniversary)
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)
Spineshank (Reunion)
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)
Xibalba (Rare show)

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


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Zenae Zukowski