Slayer performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland on Nov. 26, 2019. The reunited band will headline Aftershock Festival this fall.  Joaquin Cabello/STAFF.

The grassy, tree-lined fields of Sacramento’s Discovery Park will again reverberate with the thunderous circle pits of the hard-rock-centric Aftershock Festival this October. This year’s edition of the West Coast’s only festival produced by Danny Wimmer Presents will feature headliners Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Mötley Crüe.

The biggest addition to the this year’s lineup is a fifth stage to its footprint, allowing for for a larger performer bill. The poster for the event is a gargantuan who’s who of rock legends to up and coming acts.

Many of this year’s acts were originally scheduled to perform in 2020 and 2021 but were postponed by COVID-19. Pantera, Judas Priest and Architects were originally to perform in 2023 but dropped out.

Iron Maiden last performed in the Bay Area in 2022. For Slayer, it’s one of three announced shows in 2024. Breaking Benjamin, Evanescence, Rise Against and Halestorm also represent return engagements for some of modern rock’s biggest go-to acts.

Other highlights include Scars on Broadway (with System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian), supergroup L.S. Dunes and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morrello and Poppy. Newer acts include the Warning, Dead Poet Society and Winona Fighter.

Last year’s Aftershock hosted about 160,000 people from every U.S. state and 40 other countries.

“We couldn’t be more excited that Sacramento has become synonymous with the largest rock festival on the West Coast,” Visit Sacramento President and CEO Mike Testa said in a news release. “The city is ready to welcome fans for four days packed with more than 130 bands and unforgettable live music experiences.”

Tickets are on sale now at the Aftershock Festival website. The festival will take place Oct. 10 to 13.

The lineup for Aftershock includes: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Disturbed, Pantera, Judas Priest, Five Finger Death Punch, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Till Lindemann, Falling in Reverse, Rise Against, Staind, Halestorm, Seether, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Anthrax, Architects, Tom Morello, Cypress Hill, Ministry, Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, Skillet,  Sevendust, Tech N9ne, Insane Clown Posse,  Static X, Clutch, Body Count, Lorna Shore, Highly Suspect, Poppy, Grandson, Nothing More, P.O.D., Filter, Eagles of Death Metal, Coal Chamber, Code Orange, Jinjer, Bad Wolves, Shadows Fall, Fear Factory, Sleeping With Sirens, Juliette Lewis and the Licks, Marky Ramone Plays The Ramones Classics, Drain, City Morgue, Saosin, L.S. Dunes, Badflower, PUP, Rival Sons, Militarie Gun, Hawthorne Heights, Bayside, Giovannie and the Hired Guns, Show Me The Body, Whitechapel, From Ashes to New, The Warning, Set it Off, Resorte, Fugitive, Better Lovers, Drug Church, Biohazard, Joey Valence & Brae, Tim Montana, Vended, The Chisel, The Armed, Soul Glo, High Vis, Narrow Head, I See Stars, Bob Vylan, GEL, Holding Absence, Touché Amoré, Citizen Soldier, New Years Day, Drowning Pool, Alien Ant Farm, Orgy, Adema, Powerman 5000, Taproot, Local H, HED PE, Moonshine Bandits, CKY, Brutus, Alien Weaponry, Oxymorrons, Veil of Maya, Lilith Czar, Holy Fawn, D.R.U.G.S., Ho99o9, Ill Niño, Winona Fighter, Slothrust, Hemorage, Nerv, Damnage, Jeris Johnson, Any Given Sin, Deadlands, Mike’s Dead, Self Deception, Lø Spirit, Jager Bonham, Dead Poet Society, Point North, Like A Storm, Teen Mortgage, Jigsaw Youth, The Funeral Portrait, Black Map, Capital Theatre, Descartes A Kant, Lowlives, StrateJacket, Blame My Youth, Caskets, Silly Goose, Reach NYC, TX2, Royale Lynn, Budderside and Gozu.