Aftershock reveals 2024 lineup. Sacramento’s rock music festival will feature 8 headlining acts
Billing it as the largest rock music festival on the West Coast, organizers on Wednesday unveiled the full 2024 lineup for Sacramento’s Aftershock festival.
The celebration of hard rock and heavy metal at Discovery Park will feature eight headliners, doubling up on each of the festival’s four days. Slayer and Pantera will perform Oct. 10; Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch on Oct. 11; Iron Maiden and Judas Priest on Oct. 12; and Mötley Crüe and Disturbed on Oct. 13.
Aftershock is expanding this year to a fifth stage, organizer Danny Wimmer Presents said in a news release. The 2024 lineup will feature more than 130 total bands.
Notable acts joining the octuple-headliners on the slate include Anthrax, Breaking Benjamin, Evanescence, Mastodon, Staind and Rise Against.
“This is the biggest Aftershock lineup we’ve ever curated, and the largest rock and metal festival ever put together in California,” Danny Wimmer said in a statement.
Tickets, festival passes and hotel packages are on sale at aftershockfestival.com. Four-day general admission passes are $389.99, and single-day general admission tickets are $129.99, according to the website.
Aftershock, it’s happening! Our 2024 lineup is here and holy sh*t, this one will go down in the history books. Not only do we have @IronMaiden’s only U.S. festival play and the exclusive West Coast performance of @Slayer, but also @slipknot, the first @MotleyCrue appearance at… pic.twitter.com/kT7Ima9aM6
— AFTERSHOCK FESTIVAL (@AFTERSHOCKSAC) February 28, 2024
The full lineup reveal comes after Aftershock last October announced Iron Maiden as the first confirmed headliner for 2024. The legendary British heavy metal band last played the Sacramento region in 2019, at Golden 1 Center.
Aftershock will be Iron Maiden’s only U.S. festival stop this year, according to Danny Wimmer Presents. It’s also the only West Coast performance for Slayer and the Aftershock debut for Mötley Crüe, organizers said.
The 2024 edition will mark the 12th Aftershock festival, which started in 2012 as a one-day event. After being canceled in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, Aftershock expanded from three days in 2019 to four in 2021.
Last year’s festival drew 160,000 attendees, Aftershock organizers said, and pulled in millions of dollars to Sacramento’s economy. Visit Sacramento CEO Mike Testa said nearly all of the metro area’s hotel rooms were full that weekend.
