Billing it as the biggest rock song pageant at the West Coast, organizers on Wednesday unveiled the whole 2024 lineup for Sacramento’s Aftershock pageant.
The party of laborious rock and heavy steel at Discovery Park will function 8 headliners, doubling up on each and every of the pageant’s 4 days. Slayer and Pantera will carry out Oct. 10; Slipknot and 5 Finger Loss of life 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 degree, organizer Danny Wimmer Gifts mentioned in a information unlock. The 2024 lineup will function greater than 130 overall bands.
Notable acts becoming a member of the octuple-headliners at the slate come with Anthrax, Breaking Benjamin, Evanescence, Mastodon, Staind and Upward thrust Towards.
“That is the largest Aftershock lineup we’ve ever curated, and the biggest rock and steel pageant ever put in combination in California,” Danny Wimmer mentioned in a commentary.
Tickets, pageant passes and resort applications are on sale at aftershockfestival.com. 4-day basic admission passes are $389.99, and single-day basic admission tickets are $129.99, in line with the web site.
The overall lineup disclose 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 can be Iron Maiden’s simplest U.S. pageant forestall this 12 months, in line 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 pageant, which began in 2012 as a one-day match. After being canceled in 2020 via the COVID-19 pandemic, Aftershock expanded from 3 days in 2019 to 4 in 2021.
Ultimate 12 months’s pageant drew 160,000 attendees, Aftershock organizers mentioned, and pulled in hundreds of thousands of greenbacks to Sacramento’s financial system. Discuss with Sacramento CEO Mike Testa mentioned just about the entire metro space’s resort rooms have been complete that weekend.