Aftershock, the Sacramento edition of the many Danny Wimmer-presented hard rock/heavy metal festivals that happen in the US each year, has announced its 2026 lineup with headliners My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit, and Pierce the Veil. Like other Danny Wimmer fests, the lineups are broken down into one-stage lineups that usually stick to a particular theme, and Limp Bizkit are headlining a stage with the rap/rock crossover lineup of Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Insane Clown Posse, P.O.D., and Drowning Pool. And that’s not the only hip hop on Aftershock this year: $uicideboy$ headline a stage with Memphis rap legends Three 6 Mafia, and hardcore-bands-of-the-moment Drain and Haywire are both on that one as well. Plus, Ice-T‘s rap-metal band Body Count will make an appearance.
Aftershock 2026 also has the first-announced West Coast reunion show for Circa Survive (who revealed their reunion when the lineup for Wimmer’s Louisville festival Louder Than Life was announced), and just like LTL, Aftershock includes L.S. Dunes with every member of that post-hardcore supergroup pulling double duty thanks to sets from Thursday, Coheed & Cambria, and the aforementioned Circa Survive and My Chemical Romance. More post-hardcore/emo representation comes from AFI, The Used, New Found Glory, The Starting Line, Alexisonfire, Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, Hot Mulligan, The Wonder Years, The Story So Far, Finch, Senses Fail, La Dispute, Saosin, Armor For Sleep, HORSE the Band, The Fall of Troy, From First To Last, I Set My Friends On Fire, and more.
There are also rare metal sets from Down and Kylesa, and lots of other heavy stuff like Suicidal Tendencies, Helmet, Municipal Waste, Cro-Mags, Corrosion of Conformity, Melvins, Killswitch Engage, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Acacia Strain, PeelingFlesh, Rivers of Nihil, Max Cavalera doing Cavalera (performing Sepultura’s Roots) and Soulfly sets, Zakk Wylde doing Zakk Sabbath and Black Label Society sets, and more. Punk veterans The Offspring are playing (headlining the stage with The Used, New Found Glory, The Starting Line, Hawthorne Heights, and L.S. Dunes), and the QOTSA-headlined stage has other alt-rock vets like Stone Temple Pilots, Wolfmother, Filter, Oleander (a hometown reunion show), and Toadies.
Tickets are on sale now, and you can see the full 140+ band lineup below.
AFTERSHOCK 2026 LINEUP
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