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Metallica, My Chemical Romance Headlining 2021 Aftershock Festival

Metallica and My Chemical Romance will be headlining the 2021 Aftershock Festival. Taking place October 7-10 at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif., the festival will see Metallica headlining the festival…

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Metallica and My Chemical Romance will be headlining the 2021 Aftershock Festival.

Taking place October 7-10 at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif., the festival will see Metallica headlining the festival on October 8 and 10 and delivering two different sets, while My Chemical Romance will headline on October 9. Both bands were scheduled to headline the festival's 2020 installment, but it was postponed for...well, you know why.

Also booked for the Aftershock bill are Limp Bizkit, Rancid, The Offspring, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Volbeat, Machine Gun Kelly, Mastodon, Gojira, SEETHER, Parkway Drive, and many more. The daily lineup (sans set times) is as follows:

Thursday, October 7: Limp Bizkit, Parkway Drive, Testament, Hatebreed, Exodus, Knocked Loose, Fit For A King

Friday, October 8: Metallica, Rancid, Volbeat, SEETHER, +LIVE+, Skillet, Suicidal Tendencies, Avatar, Pop Evil, Butcher Babies, Des Rocs, Ayron Jones, Crobot, Cleopatrick, Ego Kill Talent, Crown Lands, UnityTX, Contracult Collective

Saturday, October 9: My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Machine Gun Kelly, Gojira, ?? ??? (TBA reunion), Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, Asking Alexandria, Body Count, Badflower, Thursday, L7, Atreyu, Bones UK, South of Eden, The Black Moods, Another Day Dawns, American Teeth

Sunday, October 10Metallica, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Mastodon, Pennywise, The Pretty Reckless, Black Veil Brides, Steel Panther, Yelawolf, Grandson, From Ashes To New, Alien Weaponry, LAW, The Blue Stones, The Contortionist, Higher Power, Creeper, The Cold Stares

Passes for Aftershock are on sale now at AftershockFestival.com where you can find complete details on the event.

Erica Banas is a news blogger who's been covering the rock/classic rock world since 2014. The coolest event she's ever covered in person was the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Sir Paul McCartney inducting Foo Fighters? C'mon now!) She's also well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights