Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Aftershock 2026 Lineup
Four days and 140-plus bands of rock, metal and hardcore on the Sacramento riverfront.
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About Aftershock 2026
Aftershock is the West Coast's biggest rock festival: four October days at Discovery Park on the Sacramento riverfront, 142 bands, and a definition of "heavy" wide enough to be almost meaningless. Each night has its own personality in 2026. My Chemical Romance's theatrics on Thursday, a Friday that hands the main stage to Limp Bizkit, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill, Pierce The Veil over a deep post-hardcore reunion slate on Saturday, and Tool closing Sunday with Queens of the Stone Age, AFI, and Danny Elfman beneath them. Somewhere in the middle sit Dethklok, Buckethead, Insane Clown Posse, and a quartet of headbanging cellists, which is the whole thesis of this festival in one sentence.
Expect post-hardcore, metal, rock and emo across 142 acts.
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Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act — the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
Prog-metal's cathedral builders — polyrhythms, lasers, and total audience surrender, Danny Carey's drumming alone worth the pilgrimage.
Grimy, Memphis-indebted rap about self-destruction, built into one of the largest underground followings in music — G59 loyalty runs religious.
The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
Hardcore kids who became goths and then a genuinely huge rock band — Davey Havok's full-commitment melodrama riding a catalog that runs from East Bay punk to 'Miss Murder'-era anthems.
Canada's post-hardcore heart — three voices trading scream, croon, and rasp across one beloved catalog, with reunion sets that feel like national holidays back home.
Classically trained Finnish cellists who started by covering Metallica and never stopped headbanging — symphonic metal where the strings genuinely shred.
OC metalcore originators — 'Lip Gloss and Black' nostalgia with new-era polish, from a band that helped write the genre's melodic playbook in the first place.
J-pop choreography welded to genuine power-metal chops — a premise that should not work and completely does, now with arena-scale production and a decade of converted skeptics.
Zakk Wylde's biker-metal brotherhood — pinch harmonics for days, Sabbath-weight riffs, and guitar solos treated as main events.
Ice-T fronting a thrash band with the same bluntness he brought to rap — the point has never been subtle.
Max and Iggor performing Sepultura's 'Roots' in full — Brazilian metal history live, from the brothers who wrote it.
A solo billing built entirely around two decades of nu-metal and groove-metal frontman work — Mudvayne intensity and HELLYEAH swagger in one set.
Craig Owens's theatrical post-hardcore, reunited — MySpace-era drama with real stakes, piano flourishes and that unmistakable swooping vocal intact.
Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited — soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
Spooky-kid nu-metal with detuned bounce and a goth streak the genre mostly abandoned — 'Loco'-era heaviness back from the grave.
Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks — 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.
North Carolina crossover veterans who moved from hardcore into thick Southern sludge and stayed there — Sabbath swing filtered through a punk's impatience.
Gothic-horror black metal with orchestration, shrieks, and a theatrical streak a mile wide — extreme metal's most committed haunted-house act.
B-Real's nasal snarl over DJ Muggs's murk — the group that made stoner rap a genre with a flag, 'Insane in the Brain' still a jump-along ritual.
Swancore's funk-flecked flagship — technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash, a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.
Oingo Boingo's madman turned Tim Burton's composer — a berserk orchestral-rock spectacle that mashes film scores into art-punk chaos.
Metalocalypse's cartoon death-metal band, real and devastating live — Brendon Small's shred played against the animation at brutal volume.
NOLA sludge supergroup — Phil Anselmo fronting molasses-slow riffs built for a room with no air conditioning, swamp-heavy doom from scene royalty.
Sunny California hardcore that treats a circle pit as a party rather than a fight — the scene's most reliably grinning live band.
'What It Is to Burn'-era post-hardcore, still one of the era's most-loved single records — a title track that remains a scene-wide scream-along.
Rap-rock revivalists trading verses between a singer and an MC, straight out of the 2000s playbook — updated production, same adrenaline.
Mid-2000s screamo whose most famous alumnus left to become a dubstep producer — 'Dear Diary' drama that still hits the scene's pleasure centers.
Ohio emo survivors whose mid-2000s records are still the reference point for the whole scream-over-the-chorus template — played now with veterans' gratitude.
Bluesy, scuffed-up rock delivered with a chip on the shoulder and a genuine gift for a chorus — grit and hooks at festival scale.
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
The Faygo flies at sundown — whoop whoop, and genuinely one of music's strangest, most loyal communities gathered in one place.
Metalcore's standard-bearers — 'The End of Heartache' still detonates, two decades of the genre's template played by its authors.
Texas hardcore at its most punishing — mosh calls with a message, and a low end that treats subtlety as a character flaw.
Savannah sludge-psych institution — dual drummers, buzzsaw riffs, and swirling psychedelia, returned from a long hiatus with the heaviness intact.
MCR, Thursday, and Circa Survive members' supergroup — urgent, veteran post-hardcore played like a first band, not a side project.
Narrative post-hardcore delivered closer to recitation than singing, and devastating for it — short stories screamed at full band volume.
'My Own Worst Enemy' — one perfect song and a very good time, delivered by SoCal pros who know exactly why you came.
Warped Tour survivors trading in the specific ache of a song you loved at sixteen — 'Miserable at Best' still empties the tear ducts.
The pop-punk band other pop-punk bands cite — three decades of unreasonably durable hooks and a work ethic to match.
San Antonio alt-metal showmen — bass-throwing spectacle, Grammy-nominated hooks, and a stage rig built like a science experiment.
'Alive' and 'Youth of the Nation' — San Diego's nu-metal survivors, positivity intact through every scene cycle.
Swiss beatdown with a genuinely unsettling vocal performance sitting on top of the chug — Europe's heaviest recent export.
President
Chuck D's baritone over air-raid production — protest music that has never needed updating, with Flavor Flav as eternal hype engine.
Josh Homme's robot-boogie riffs — heavy music with a lounge singer's sense of swing and menace, desert-rock royalty at full strut.
Theatrical pop-rock with orchestral flourishes and a frontman who can genuinely belt — Broadway instincts at Warped velocity.
Lajon Witherspoon's soul-trained voice over grinding alt-metal — the reason they outlasted the scene, and the warmest crowd in heavy music.
Alex Terrible's subterranean roar over deathcore built like siege machinery — as much spectacle as band, and heavier than both.
New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end — the format's next arena act in waiting.
Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore — Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.
Space-suit cinematic rock — sci-fi lore with radio-metal hooks, a full 'demonstration' rather than a mere concert.
Grunge-era hitmakers with a glam streak their peers were too earnest to attempt — 'Plush' through 'Interstate Love Song', hooks for days.
Sun-bleached ska-punk-dub hybrid, now carried by Bradley Nowell's son with the songs left intact — '40oz. to Freedom' forever.
Venice crossover legends — 'Institutionalized' and a pit that never ages, Cyco Mike still leading the charge.
A band whose survival story is inseparable from the music's insistence on pushing forward — melodic hardcore as literal testament.
Seattle's funk-flecked pop-metalcore — groove first, breakdowns second, and falsetto hooks the scene didn't see coming.
Thirty years of hooks that snuck genuine punk speed onto daytime radio without anyone noticing — the catalog is basically all singles.
Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock — smoky, heavy, chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
Early-2000s pop-punk with more craft than the era gave it credit for — 'The Best of Me' aging like a yearbook photo you actually like.
Modern pop-punk standard-bearers — gruff, fast, and beloved, Walnut Creek's chip-on-shoulder anthems in full stride, pits and singalongs in equal measure.
Bert McCracken's scream-to-croon whiplash defined a corner of early-2000s post-hardcore and still detonates live — the chaos aged into craft.
Pop-punk that grew up in public — suburban specifics rendered with novelistic detail, Dan Campbell narrating adulthood in real time.
Radio rock that pivoted from swagger to piano ballads and kept the audience either way — Vancouver pragmatists with hooks to spare.
Memphis's murk-and-menace originators, whose tape-hiss production is now the foundation of half of underground rap — Oscar winners, improbably.
'Full Collapse' pioneers — the bridge between hardcore and emo, still vital, with Geoff Rickly's yelp intact.
'They're Only Chasing Safety' to now — metalcore's restless innovators, reinventing loudly in every era, and the reinventions keep landing.
Clean-chorus metalcore engineered for the big room, with breakdowns placed exactly where you want them — Ocala precision, radio ambition.
'Check Yes Juliet' — MySpace-era pop-punk sunshine, Florida warmth that never curdled, and the chorus still checks yes.
Unapologetic '70s riff worship played with enough conviction to make the pastiche irrelevant — 'Woman' still a lightning strike.
Nine MCs over dusty kung-fu-flick soul loops — still the most-imitated blueprint in rap, '36 Chambers' eternal.
Zakk Wylde playing Sabbath songs with reverence and absurd volume — a tribute act with a guitar hero attached, pinch harmonics included.
Early djent architects out of Minneapolis — eight-string polyrhythms and huge grooves whose low end still lands harder live than any recording has managed to capture.
Literary-concept screamo out of Raleigh — dual vocals, Poe-inspired storylines, and no interest whatsoever in restraint, beloved by everyone who owned a studded belt in 2008.
A concept record about being dead, delivered with more atmosphere than its scene usually allowed — 'What to Do When You Are Dead' remains a mid-2000s emo cult document.
The original Of Mice & Men vocalist returning to the material after years away from touring — a scene-history moment for everyone who wore out those first records.
Clean-and-scream metalcore from the Rise Records boom, played with more muscle than nostalgia — Phoenix scene veterans who kept the choruses enormous.
Blue Medusa
Florida beatdown with no interest in subtlety — grief and rage compressed into two-minute assaults, as heavy emotionally as it is sonically.
Masked, Spanish-language deathgrind long assembled from members of other well-known metal bands — cartel imagery and blunt political satire at grindcore speed.
A KFC bucket, a white mask, and some of the fastest and strangest guitar playing anyone has committed to tape.
Leeds band working the melodic end of metalcore, big clean choruses set against screamed verses — polished, radio-sized heaviness with a post-hardcore heart.
Cenobia
Pennsylvania hard rock band bound up with the skate-video world that broke them — sludgy riffs, deadpan menace and '96 Quite Bitter Beings' still doing the heavy lifting.
Fat Mike's genre-agnostic side project — punk, rap, and folk stitched into something genuinely odd, with Ceschi's rapid-fire verses at the center.
Melodic hardcore at its most emotionally scoured — Brendan Murphy's voice permanently at the edge, and a Canadian scene institution because of it.
NYHC founders whose 'Age of Quarrel' remains the crossover blueprint — hardcore fury and metal precision fused before the terms had settled.
Nashville rapper with a rock streak and a fiercely independent release history — melodic grit built entirely outside the label system.
Mid-2000s Colorado post-hardcore band who ran synths and electronics through screamo at the peak of that scene — back on stages after years of silence.
Forever attached to one enormous song, and entirely comfortable with that — 'Bodies' still detonates, and the rest of the set hits harder than expected.
Post-hardcore turned silk-smooth pop-rock, with one of the scene's most distinctive clean vocals — a reinvention so complete the back catalog sounds like another band.
'The Question'-era screamo-pop veterans, still swinging — dueling vocals and dynamic whiplash from one of the scene's smartest bands.
Vegas post-hardcore that survived a frontman swap and a decade of scene churn intact — arena-scene hooks with a survivor's stubbornness.
Long-running Arizona outfit led by the Nicoli sisters, pairing clean melodic vocals against screamed counterpoint — mid-2000s post-hardcore still in motion.
Fear, And Loathing in Las Vegas
'Hey Man Nice Shot' — Richard Patrick's industrial-rock sneer intact, machine-tooled riffs from NIN's family tree.
Canadian alt-rock with a knack for a slinky, unexpected groove under the radio singles — 'Paralyzer' the funkiest thing rock radio played that decade.
Twinkly, self-lacerating emo about mental health, sung like it's being confessed rather than performed — catharsis with a Nashville accent.
Alabama metalcore turned mean — melodic roots swapped for something nu-metal-adjacent, and the heaviness pays for the trade.
Haarper
A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars — Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
Newer West Coast hardcore working the same fast, mean seam as its Bay Area peers — no-frills aggression built for short, violent sets.
Page Hamilton's precision-machined downstrokes — the band a generation of nu-metal quietly ripped off, still tighter than all of them.
Welsh post-hardcore romantics — soaring, heart-first heaviness, every chorus written to be wept through, Cardiff sincerity at full wingspan.
Holywatr
Metalcore with 8-bit keyboard leads — the band that made 'Nintendocore' an actual thing people argue about, chaotic and funnier live than seems possible.
One of the bands that defined electronicore, welding trance synths and dance drops to post-hardcore — maximalist and unapologetically melodic.
Crunk-screamo maximalism — the most 2008 band that has ever existed, affectionately, MySpace chaos preserved in amber and played loud.
New Jersey nu-metal survivors who built their sound on Latin percussion and layered rhythm — groove-first, and heavier than the era's radio fare.
ivri
Toronto artist who moved from rap features into full pop-punk, and sounds more at home there — emo-rap roots showing through the power chords.
LEAP
Forty years of deliberately difficult, punishingly slow riffs — and the band Nirvana learned from, still outweirding everyone downstream.
Party thrash played at a ludicrous clip — beer, gore, and songs that rarely reach two minutes, with crowd-surfing quotas to meet.
Melodic death metal about goblins, performed with a technical seriousness that makes the joke land harder — dancing goblin mascot included.
Sacramento's own late-'90s radio rock, playing a hometown crowd that remembers every word — 'Why I'm Here' loudest of all.
Slam played with a hip-hop swagger — gurgles, gore, and breakdowns tuned to the floor, the internet's favorite new heaviness.
Proto-doom lifers whose long-delayed recognition arrived decades after the riffs did — still summoning the '70s dark.
Downtuned riffs and half-rapped menace from nu-metal's major-label boom years, running in fits and starts until the band finally called it quits in 2015.
Self-described humorcore: deadpan songs about beer, food and workplace misery, played with enough genuine heaviness that the joke never undercuts the riffs.
'End of Silence' anniversary — orchestral Christian metal's biggest debut, replayed in full with the strings intact.
Pennsylvania technical death metal band who folded saxophone into the blast beats and made it feel inevitable rather than gimmicky — heavy music with a jazz lung.
The Anthony Green-fronted EP is the stuff of scene legend; the live show still leans on it — 'Seven Years' guaranteed to level the tent.
New Jersey post-hardcore that got angrier and more political as it aged, not softer — Buddy Nielsen leading with total candor.
Silly Goose
Max Cavalera's post-Sepultura vehicle, still fusing tribal percussion with pure groove-metal weight — three decades of roar undiminished.
Bay Area deathcore with a bottomless low end and breakdowns that arrive like a door being kicked in — no melody, no mercy.
Melodic hardcore with a conscience — sermons about solidarity delivered at full sprint, Orange County conviction two decades deep.
Punishingly slow, tuned-into-the-floor heaviness with Vincent Bennett's misanthropy on top — doom tempos, hardcore intent, heaviness as a moral position.
Melodic death metal played with a fan's enthusiasm — carrying on after the loss of their frontman, with the songbook honored nightly.
Metalcore that kept getting darker and more atmospheric long after their scene peers stopped trying — the rare legacy act still improving.
Washington trio who made finger-tapped chaos and lurching time signatures into something catchy — Thomas Erak's guitar as lead instrument and wrecking ball.
The Pretty Wild
San Antonio nu-metal outfit whose brief early-2000s run produced 'Turn Me On "Mr. Deadman"' — industrial-tinted riffs and radio menace.
The Violent Hour
Phoenix metalcore fronted by Telle Smith, alternating clean choruses with breakdowns and drifting toward electronics as the years pass.
'Possum Kingdom' — Texas alt-rock's eternal dark ride, still promising to be your angel nightly, Texas gothic in radio form.
Texas alt-metal band out of the turn-of-the-millennium nu-metal boom, done by 2003 — a short, loud run of heavy riffs and shouted-to-sung dynamics.
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Wind Walkers
The headliners
My Chemical Romance — Concept-album maximalists who treated emo as opera — marching-band drums, guitar harmonies, and a costume for every era, theatrical to the last note.
Tool — Prog-metal's cathedral builders — polyrhythms, lasers, and total audience surrender, Danny Carey's drumming alone worth the pilgrimage.
Limp Bizkit — Nu-metal's chaos agents in their beloved victory-lap era — Fred Durst does it all for the nookie, still, and the field does it with him.
Pierce The Veil — San Diego post-hardcore romantics enjoying a massive TikTok-era second act — the scene's most swooned-over comeback.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Sleep Theory — Memphis's fastest-rising alt-metal band: soul in the clean vocal, weight everywhere else.
The Home Team — Groove-first pop-metalcore from Seattle; the rare heavy band you can actually dance to.
DRAIN — Santa Cruz hardcore run like a pool party, the friendliest pit of the weekend.
Paleface Swiss — Swiss beatdown that went from clubs to festival stages in about three years flat.
Spite — Bay Area deathcore on close-to-home turf, and getting bigger with every tour.
Bodysnatcher — Two minutes at a time and no wasted motion: Florida beatdown at its most direct.
Other acts worth planning around
Wu-Tang Clan — Nine MCs on a rock festival's main stage, and still the loudest crowd of Friday.
Public Enemy — Chuck D on a Sacramento riverbank; the catalog has never needed a rewrite.
Danny Elfman — Boingo songs and film scores in one set: the strangest booking on the poster, and probably the best.
Dethklok — A cartoon band with a very real, very good death-metal lineup standing behind it.
- Body Count feat. Ice-T — Thirty-five years of saying it plainly, at thrash tempo.
Buckethead — No banter, no let-up: an hour of the fastest and weirdest guitar playing anyone will do all weekend.
Circa Survive — Reunited and playing festivals again after years away; the Saturday set worth arriving early for.
Oleander — A hometown booking with actual history: late-'90s Sacramento radio rock, back on its own riverfront.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (October 1)
My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Sublime, The Used, The Pretty Reckless, Hot Mulligan + 29 more
Thursday set times (35 sets)
- LEAP · Shockwave Stage
- Primer 55 · Faultline Stage
- Free Throw · Aftershock Stage
- The Violent Hour · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- L.S. Dunes · Shockwave Stage
- Brujeria · Faultline Stage
- Lit · Aftershock Stage
- Wind Walkers · Epicenter
- Red · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Hawthorne Heights · Shockwave Stage
- ünloco · Faultline Stage
- We The Kings · Aftershock Stage
- The Word Alive · Epicenter
- Finger Eleven · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- The Starting Line · Shockwave Stage
- Ill Niño · Faultline Stage
- Mayday Parade · Aftershock Stage
- Apocalyptica · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Caskets · Epicenter
- New Found Glory · Shockwave Stage
- The Union Underground · Faultline Stage
- Theory of a Deadman · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Hot Mulligan · Aftershock Stage
- Holding Absence · Epicenter
- Coal Chamber · Faultline Stage
- The Used · Shockwave Stage
- Nothing More · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Sublime · Aftershock Stage
- From Ashes To New · Epicenter
- Sevendust · Faultline Stage
- The Offspring · Shockwave Stage
- The Pretty Reckless · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Killswitch Engage · Faultline Stage
- My Chemical Romance · Aftershock Stage
- Starset · Epicenter
Friday lineup (October 2)
Limp Bizkit, $UICIDEBOY$, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Slaughter To Prevail + 30 more
Friday set times (36 sets)
- Silly Goose · Aftershock Stage
- Haarper · Shockwave Stage
- Drowning Pool · Aftershock Stage
- Rivers of Nihil · Epicenter
- Eyes Set To Kill · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Haywire · Shockwave Stage
- vianova · Faultline Stage
- P.O.D. · Aftershock Stage
- PeelingFlesh · Epicenter
- Alesana · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- DRAIN · Shockwave Stage
- Psychostick · Faultline Stage
- Insane Clown Posse · Aftershock Stage
- Finch · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Bodysnatcher · Epicenter
- Nekrogoblikon · Faultline Stage
- Kublai Khan TX · Shockwave Stage
- Atreyu · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Cypress Hill · Aftershock Stage
- Spite · Epicenter
- Blue Medusa · Faultline Stage
- Senses Fail · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Three 6 Mafia · Shockwave Stage
- Cradle of Filth · Faultline Stage
- Public Enemy · Aftershock Stage
- The Black Dahlia Murder · Epicenter
- Alexisonfire · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Slaughter To Prevail · Shockwave Stage
- Underoath · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Wu-Tang Clan · Aftershock Stage
- Paleface Swiss · Epicenter
- Chad Gray: Voice of Mudvayne & HELLYEAH · Faultline Stage
- $UICIDEBOY$ · Shockwave Stage
- Coheed and Cambria · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Limp Bizkit · Aftershock Stage
- Dethklok · Faultline Stage
Saturday lineup (October 3)
Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL, Circa Survive, The Story So Far, Sleeping with Sirens + 30 more
Saturday set times (36 sets)
- The Fall of Troy · Faultline Stage
- Fear, And Loathing in Las Vegas · Aftershock Stage
- Austin Carlile: The Original Voice of Of Mice & Men · Shockwave Stage
- Gideon · Epicenter
- Emery · Faultline Stage
- ivri · Aftershock Stage
- Escape the Fate · Shockwave Stage
- Horse The Band · Faultline Stage
- Stick To Your Guns · Epicenter
- Blessthefall · Aftershock Stage
- Doobie · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- The Devil Wears Prada · Shockwave Stage
- Armor For Sleep · Faultline Stage
- Pentagram · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- The Acacia Strain · Epicenter
- Set It Off · Aftershock Stage
- Saosin · Faultline Stage
- The Wonder Years · Shockwave Stage
- Melvins · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- After The Burial · Epicenter
- Chiodos · Aftershock Stage
- Thursday · Faultline Stage
- Wage War · Shockwave Stage
- Kylesa · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Counterparts · Epicenter
- Sleeping with Sirens · Aftershock Stage
- La Dispute · Faultline Stage
- Corrosion of Conformity · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- The Story So Far · Shockwave Stage
- Circa Survive · Faultline Stage
- The Ghost Inside · Epicenter
- BABYMETAL · Aftershock Stage
- DOWN · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- A Day To Remember · Shockwave Stage
- Pierce The Veil · Aftershock Stage
- Black Label Society · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
Sunday lineup (October 4)
Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Danny Elfman, AFI, Stone Temple Pilots, Dance Gavin Dance + 29 more
Sunday set times (35 sets)
- Toadies · Shockwave Stage
- CKY · Aftershock Stage
- I Set My Friends On Fire · Faultline Stage
- Oleander · Shockwave Stage
- Codefendants · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Helmet · Aftershock Stage
- Emarosa · Faultline Stage
- Cenobia · Epicenter
- Filter · Shockwave Stage
- Cro-Mags · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- I See Stars · Faultline Stage
- Drop Dead, Gorgeous · Faultline Stage
- Buckethead · Aftershock Stage
- The Pretty Wild · Epicenter
- Wolfmother · Shockwave Stage
- Soulfly · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Zakk Sabbath · Aftershock Stage
- Holywatr · Epicenter
- Hail The Sun · Faultline Stage
- Municipal Waste · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Highly Suspect · Shockwave Stage
- AFI · Aftershock Stage
- Jutes · Epicenter
- Cavalera · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Stone Temple Pilots · Shockwave Stage
- From First To Last · Faultline Stage
- Suicidal Tendencies · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- President · Epicenter
- Danny Elfman · Aftershock Stage
- The Home Team · Faultline Stage
- Queens of the Stone Age · Shockwave Stage
- Body Count feat. Ice-T · The Point Stage pres. by Coors Light
- Dance Gavin Dance · Faultline Stage
- Tool · Aftershock Stage
- Sleep Theory · Epicenter
Aftershock 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Aftershock 2026?
October 1–4, 2026 (Thursday through Sunday).
Where does Aftershock take place?
Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, where the American and Sacramento rivers meet.
Who is headlining Aftershock 2026?
My Chemical Romance (Thursday), Limp Bizkit (Friday), Pierce The Veil (Saturday), and Tool (Sunday).
How many bands are playing Aftershock 2026?
142 announced acts across four days.
What days do specific bands play?
Every act's day is already on this page: expand the full lineup below or check the day-by-day breakdown. Stage times usually land closer to the festival.
How do I figure out which of the 142 bands I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love, and it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
Who plays Thursday at Aftershock 2026?
Thursday, October 1: My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Sublime, The Used, The Pretty Reckless, Hot Mulligan, plus 29 more acts.
Who plays Friday at Aftershock 2026?
Friday, October 2: Limp Bizkit, $UICIDEBOY$, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Slaughter To Prevail, plus 30 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Aftershock 2026?
Saturday, October 3: Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL, Circa Survive, The Story So Far, Sleeping with Sirens, plus 30 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Aftershock 2026?
Sunday, October 4: Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Danny Elfman, AFI, Stone Temple Pilots, Dance Gavin Dance, plus 29 more acts.
Are set times out for Aftershock 2026?
Yes. The full schedule is live: the day-by-day section on this page lists every act with its set time.
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