Mosh pits, electric guitar riffs, and festival goers wearing costumes were abundant as the annual rock, punk and metal music festival returned for its 13th year.
Aftershock returned to Discovery Park Thursday and ran through Sunday. The festival featured over 120 artists across four stages, including headliners blink-182, Korn, Bring Me the Horizon, and Sacramento’s own Deftones.
Festival attendee crowd surfs during the Knocked Loose set on at Aftershock Friday, Oct. 6, 2025.Keyshawn Davis/CapRadio
The lineup also included All-American Rejects, Turnstile, Knocked Loose, All Time Low, Marilyn Manson and more.
One Sacramento resident, Tony Pitkin, attended Aftershock for all four days with his wife and said they met while listening to many of the music acts that played at the festival.
“It's been f—g great,” Pitkin said. “The pits have been awesome. The crowd has been awesome. It's a little muddier [Friday], but it kind of matches the grimy energy of what Aftershock sort of represents.”
Festivalgoers dressed in Spongebob, Squidward and Doodlebob at Aftershock Friday, Oct. 6, 2025.Keyshawn Davis/CapRadio
It rained on the morning of day one of the festival, leaving some parts of Discovery Park muddier than others.
This was Pitkin’s third time attending Aftershock, and his favorite performances were by Speed, blink-182, Knocked Loose, and Turnstile.
“Aftershock is a great festival,” he said. “I'm stunned, but also thankful that it exists in Sacramento. It’s cool that we get to have that in our backyard.”
Knocked Loose performance at Aftershock on Friday Oct. 6, 2025.Keyshawn Davis/CapRadioOn day two of Aftershock, Arabella Larke and Sierra Young, both dressed in matching Ronald McDonald costumes, attended the festival for only two days.
Between the two of them, Deftones was the band they were most excited to see on Friday.
“We just saw Knocked Loose, that was so f—g good,” Larke said. “We were in the pit, when everyone was crowd-surfing, we literally had to help like 15 people crowd surf.”
Young said she would recommend attending the festival to people who haven’t gone before.
“I love it,” she said. “I'm planning on coming back every single year unless they have a bad line-up, which they don't.”
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