Headbanger’s holiday Five must-mosh bands at Aftershock 2019 by Chris MaCias
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devil-horned salutes. More than 50 bands—legacy acts and up-andcomers—will perform on three stages. Here’s a guide to five of the must-mosh bands at Aftershock: Tool: A slam dunk, with Aftershock marking the first live show for Tool since its charttopping album Fear Innoculum was released in late August. Judging by its Aftershock appearance in 2016, Tool’s set is likely to be as sonically heavy and dense as it is visually stunning. slipknot headlines aftershock on Friday, on the heels of its Fishbone: While not of the sixth album, We are Not Your Kind, released in august. chunka-chunka metal variety, these ska-punk pioneers have been known to start plenty of burly mosh pits on their own. They rose in Southern California’s punk scene in the ’80s and still As the final power chords ring and the last clouds of play with a manic energy that rivals your favorite vape smoke dissipate by the banks of the Sacramento heavy metal shredders. River, Aftershock 2019 may have made local history. Slipknot: The mosh pits during their 2015 headlinThe three-day extravaganza of hard rock, ing set nearly left crop circles in the grass heavy metal and a few musical twists at Gibson Ranch, Aftershock’s home goes down at Discovery Park Friday that year. Expect more of the same through Sunday, Oct. 11-13. More with Slipknot performing on than 30,000 people are expected The mosh pits the heels of We Are Not Your per day, with a total attendance Kind, the band’s first studio during Slipknot’s 2015 of about 90,000. album in five years. headlining set nearly Those numbers could make Knocked Loose: The Aftershock 2019 the largest metalcore band Code left crop circles in the musical event in Sacramento Orange boosted its local fan grass at Gibson Ranch, history. That honor previously base after its ferocious 2017 went to the former Sacramento Aftershock’s home Aftershock set. Knocked Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, which at Loose, a band from Kentucky, that year. its peak in the 1980s drew about is next as Aftershock’s up-and85,000 over a four-day Labor Day comer to see, with a manic energy weekend. that bridges hardcore and metalcore Those days of banjos and washboards poundage. If you’ve got some issues to are long gone. Now, it’s about flying V guitars, work out, this is the band to see. mosh pits and a heavy metal nation that descends on The Crystal Method: Aftershock does well by throwSacramento. ing a left-field act into the mix of metal and rock. The Aftershock, which started as a single-day event Crystal Method’s electronic music comes primarily in 2012, makes its first run as a three-day festival this from the digital realm, but its hella big beats and bass year. It features two of the biggest names not just can still pump up any heshers who need an energy in hard rock, but contemporary music. Headliners boost. □ Slipknot and Tool each released chart-topping albums recently, bumping the likes of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. check out aftershock friday through sunday, oct. 11-13. tickets range Heavy metal and hard rock are in some of its from $120 to $350. sunday is sold out. for tickets and festival info, visit aftershockfestival.com. most robust years in recent memory, and Aftershock is ready to rally the community with a sea of 28
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