Billing it as the biggest rock song competition at the West Coast, organizers on Wednesday unveiled the total 2024 lineup for Sacramento’s Aftershock competition.
The birthday celebration of arduous rock and heavy steel at Discovery Park will function 8 headliners, doubling up on each and every of the competition’s 4 days. Slayer and Pantera will carry out Oct. 10; Slipknot and 5 Finger Demise Punch on Oct. 11; Iron Maiden and Judas Priest on Oct. 12; and Mötley Crüe and Disturbed on Oct. 13.
Aftershock is increasing this 12 months to a 5th level, organizer Danny Wimmer Gifts mentioned in a information free up. The 2024 lineup will function greater than 130 general bands.
Notable acts becoming a member of the octuple-headliners at the slate come with Anthrax, Breaking Benjamin, Evanescence, Mastodon, Staind and Upward push In opposition to.
“That is the most important Aftershock lineup we’ve ever curated, and the biggest rock and steel competition ever put in combination in California,” Danny Wimmer mentioned in a commentary.
Tickets, competition passes and lodge programs are on sale at aftershockfestival.com. 4-day common admission passes are $389.99, and single-day common admission tickets are $129.99, in step with the web site.
The overall lineup divulge comes after Aftershock closing October introduced Iron Maiden as the primary showed headliner for 2024. The mythical British heavy steel band closing performed the Sacramento area in 2019, at Golden 1 Middle.
Aftershock will probably be Iron Maiden’s most effective U.S. competition prevent this 12 months, in step with Danny Wimmer Gifts. It’s additionally the one West Coast efficiency for Slayer and the Aftershock debut for Mötley Crüe, organizers mentioned.
The 2024 version will mark the twelfth Aftershock competition, which began in 2012 as a one-day tournament. After being canceled in 2020 via the COVID-19 pandemic, Aftershock expanded from 3 days in 2019 to 4 in 2021.
Final 12 months’s competition drew 160,000 attendees, Aftershock organizers mentioned, and pulled in tens of millions of greenbacks to Sacramento’s economic system. Talk over with Sacramento CEO Mike Testa mentioned just about the entire metro space’s lodge rooms had been complete that weekend.
