![]() ![]() ![]() The crowd for day two of the festival was even bigger than the first day. Reznor tore through some of his most significant hit songs and new material including Wish, March of the Pigs, and Something I Can Never Have. The massive show at Aftershock featured blinding lights, immense fog machines, and an enormous sound system, blaring the extreme noise across the park. Reznor has drawn on many talents to produce the sounds of NIN. The current incarnation of the group is one of the most intense and melodic at the same time, from the many lineups that Reznor has organized over the years. Since 1988 Trent Reznor has brought his dark vision of hardcore industrial metal music to life. The first day ended with a dramatic evening set by one of the most intense hardcore bands in music Nine Inch Nails. Guitarist James Iha and drummer Jeff Friedl round out the alternative metal powerhouse. As usual, the enigmatic lead singer Maynard Keenan, lingered mostly in the shadows in the back of the stage, while guitarist Billy Howerdel and bassist Matt McJunkins maniacally raced about the front of the stage. The band played the hit songs that have made them so famous like Stay Gold and Legend Has It.Īs evening fell and temperatures cooled to jacket weather, A Perfect Circle exploded to life in a cacophony of moody metal sound and stroking backlight. The fiesta rappers, Killer Mike and El-P, drew a huge crowd. The band have become music festival veterans and always deliver a robust set.Īs the sun dipped below the horizon and the park was painted in a beautiful orange afterglow, the music switched to Hip Hop as Run The Jewels took the stage. ![]() Georgia based heavy metal rockers Mastodon also played a blistering mid-afternoon set. Drummer Mario Duplantier showed the audience why he deserved the Loudwire award as the best Heavy metal drummer of the year. The sweaty crowd screamed their approval as the band played some of their most intense songs including, Flying Whales and Only Pain. ![]() Gojira brought their French version of hardcore heavy metal to the stage next in a blaring afternoon sun. The desert rockers opened their set with a blistering version of Magic with a guest appearance by Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds. Lead singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes rode onstage on a tiny bicycle to kick things off. “The Eagles of Death Metal” played an emotionally inspiring show, endearing themselves to the crowd early on. The crowd on the first day was most older adult music fans, probably due to a line up with veteran alternative metal bands like “Nine Inch Nails” and “A Perfect Circle.” The crowd loved the performance surging towards the stage. Hawkins had a giant hydraulic drum kit that he would ride, like a contraption from a mad max movie. “Nothing More” brought their high energy show to an already burgeoning crowd, fronted by Jonny Hawkins on lead vocals and additional percussions. By early afternoon on the first day, Heavy metal hitmakers were already performing on the main stages. The festival grounds also featured dozens of food and beverage stands, gourmet food trucks, and artisan stalls. This year’s festival featured a massive two-day lineup, headlined by Nine Inch Nails and Ozzy Osbourne, on two massive main stages and one smaller one. The event takes place in the beautiful tree lines Discovery Park on the edge of the Sacramento River.Īftershock began as a single day festival, with a modest main stage headlined by the Stone Temple Pilots with Scott Weiland and a tiny second platform, with relatively unknown bands at the time like the Hollywood Undead. The cold front gave way to nearly perfect weather for the two-day festival, with warm sunny days and cool nights prevailing. A cold front moved through the region days before the event began, blowing away the smokey skies that had engulfed Sacramento from the devastating fires in the nearby wine country. Some of the biggest names in Heavy Metal music brought 50,000 people to the sixth annual Aftershock Music Festival in Sacramento. ![]()
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