Aftershock is celebrating its 13th edition in 2025, and you can tell The West Coast’s Largest Rock, Punk & Metal Festival wants to celebrate in style by the look of this year’s lineup.
The four-day fest will return to Discovery Park in Sacramento, California October 2 – 5, 2025. The biggest names on this year’s roster include blink-182, Good Charlotte, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, TURNSTILE, Korn, Gojira, Bring Me the Horizon, Rob Zombie, and Marilyn Manson.
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.
Aftershock 2025 special appearances and reunions 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 / 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)
