Details Announced For 2026 Aftershock Festival

By: Philip Sayblack

More than 140 bands will take part in this year’s Aftershock Festival.
According to a news release distributed Wednesday, the festival, now in its 14th year, will take place Oct. 1-4 at Discovery Park in Sacramento ,CA. The bands tapped to perform at this year’s event will be spread across five separate stages. Named as headliners for this year’s festival are the likes of Tool, The Offspring, Pierce The Veil, and Wu-Tang Clan.
The festival’s full headliner schedule is noted below:
Thursday, October 1: My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Sublime
Friday, October 2: Limp Bizkit, $UICIDEBOY$, Wu-Tang Clan
Saturday, October 3: Pierce The Veil, A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL
Sunday, October 4: TOOL, Queens of the Stone Age, Danny Elfman
Among the expansive list of bands set to perform at the 2026 Aftershock Festival are: Coal Chamber, Theory of a Deadman, Set It Off, Nothing More, Wage War, Black Label Society, and Sevendust. The full list of performers for the festival is noted below:
My Chemical Romance, TOOL, Limp Bizkit, Pierce The Veil, $UICIDEBOY$, Queens of the Stone Age, The Offspring, A Day To Remember, Wu-Tang Clan, Sublime, Danny Elfman, BABYMETAL, Circa Survive, Public Enemy, AFI, The Used, Stone Temple Pilots, Cypress Hill, Slaughter To Prevail, The Pretty Reckless, The Story So Far, Dance Gavin Dance, Coheed and Cambria, Hot Mulligan, Sleeping With Sirens, DOWN, Dethklok, Three 6 Mafia, Black Label Society, Chiodos, Highly Suspect, Nothing More, Body Count feat. Ice-T, Cavalera, Killswitch Engage, Zakk Sabbath, Insane Clown Posse, Kublai Khan TX, New Found Glory, Wolfmother, Wage War, Underoath, Theory of a Deadman, Mayday Parade, Alexisonfire, Chad Gray: Voice of Mudvayne & HELLYEAH – 30 Years of Madness, Coal Chamber, Suicidal Tendencies, Starset, Sevendust, La Dispute, The Starting Line, DRAIN, The Wonder Years, The Ghost Inside, Paleface Swiss, The Home Team, We The Kings, P.O.D., Thursday, From Ashes To New, Sleep Theory, L.S. Dunes, Lit, Cradle of Filth, From First To Last, President, Apocalyptica, Atreyu, Finch, Hawthorne Heights, Set It Off, Corrosion of Conformity, Kylesa, Saosin, Buckethead, Helmet, Filter, Soulfly, Blessthefall, The Devil Wears Prada, Senses Fail, Melvins, Municipal Waste, Alissa White-Gluz, Counterparts, Oleander, Spite, After The Burial, Toadies, Finger Eleven, Drowning Pool, The Black Dahlia Murder, Armor For Sleep, Horse The Band, Holding Absence, HAYWIRE, Bodysnatcher, Escape The Fate, The Acacia Strain, Jutes, ivri, Free Throw, Caskets, Haarper, PeelingFlesh, Pentagram, Cro-Mags, Holywatr, Alesana, Stick To Your Guns, Hail The Sun, I See Stars, The Union Underground, The Word Alive, Wind Walkers, Nekrogoblikon, Emery, The Fall of Troy, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Gideon, Red, Ill Niño, Ünloco, Fear, And Loathing in Las Vegas, CKY, Psychostick, Austin Carlile: The Original Voice of Of Mice & Men, Codefendants, The Pretty Wild, Rivers of Nihil, Brujeria, Emarosa, I Set My Friends On Fire, Silly Goose, LEAP, The Violent Hour, Ladrones, Eyes Set To Kill, vianova, Doobie, and a mystery guest to be announced.
All passes for the festival are on sale here. More information on the 2026 Aftershock Festival is available along with all of the festival’s news at:
Website: https://aftershockfestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aftershockfestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aftershocksac

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