
"Gojira is the No. 1 reason to attend the 2025 Aftershock Festival this weekend at Discovery Park in Sacramento. The French quartet, which ranks on the short list of the greatest metal acts of all time, is absolutely sensational in concert and should pretty easily top Korn, Blink-182 and other big-name acts on the Aftershock bill. Yet, Gojira is only one of the many reasons to attend what is most certainly the best metal/hard-rock festival on the West Coast."
"We also are looking forward to catching Demon Hunter, a fantastic Seattle five-piece touring in support of the recently released There Was a Light Here, and Flyleaf, a Texas outfit led by powerhouse vocalist Lacey Sturm. We are also interested in Rob Zombie, who's nearly as good at playing shock rock as he is at directing horror films, and the Grammy-nominated metalcore outfit August Burns Red."
"Oakland has many sister cities: Livorno, Italy; Ocho Rios, Jamaica; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. But none of the sisterhoods is as old as Fukuoka, Japan, which became Oakland's BFF in 1962 and celebrates the bond to this day. On Oct. 5, the cities will fete their very special relationship in a very special way wistfully gazing at the same moon. It's a Supermoon, to be precise, or a full moon that appears swollen due to its seasonal closeness to earth."
Aftershock Festival runs Oct. 2-5 at Discovery Park in Sacramento with roughly 115 bands across four stages and daily hours about 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Gojira headlines and is expected to outshine other big-name acts such as Korn and Blink-182. Additional performers include Demon Hunter, Flyleaf, Rob Zombie, August Burns Red, Turnstile and 12 Stones. Ticketing and event information are available at aftershockfestival.com. Oakland and Fukuoka, sister cities since 1962, will mark their relationship on Oct. 5 by jointly gazing at a Supermoon. The Supermoon is a full moon that appears larger when the moon is seasonally closer to Earth.
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