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Aftershock 2025: Our favorite moments from metal festival's closing day

Jim Harrington, The Mercury News on

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The 2025 Aftershock Festival closed up shop on Sunday by delivering another full day’s worth of heavy sounds and cool performances.

Rob Zombie, Marilyn Mason, Bring Me the Horizon, Mudvayne and In This Moment were among the big-name acts to perform on the fourth and final day of this year’s Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento.

Here’s a look at some of our favorite moments, accompanied with stunning photos from ace rock photographer Chris Riley:

Rob Zombie lived up his mighty legend, rocking through an hourlong set that included 12 hard-hitting songs. The presentation was first-tier shock rock, but the music itself was more of a groove/industrial metal hybrid. He wowed fans with such favorites as “More Human Than Human” and “Dragula,” and announced that he plans to release new music very soon.

 

In This Moment delivered an absolutely spellbinding mix of gothic and industrial metal sounds, but one rooted in an early 2000s alt-rock. Maria Brink was a dynamic frontwoman, in total control as she transported Aftershock fans through an equally intriguing and bizarre horror/fantasy concept performance that felt almost cinematic in scope.

There are not many actual details from the Gwar set that I can relay in print and still keep my job. Let’s just say that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would not have appreciated one of the extremely tasteless and outrageous bits during the set. But tasteless and outrageous in what Gwar does — and nobody has ever done it bigger or bolder.


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