Aftershock preview: get there early!!!!

And this weekend... AFTERSHOCK!!! Back at Discovery Park, close to downtown Sacramento, the river, and the place where it all started... headliners Tool, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Primus... such a huge lineup!

But don't forget the bands who are appearing earlier in the day. The show will be huge... so much good music (and a whole lotta other stuff going on too: don't miss the Music Experience and everything else)!

Here's a preview set of YouTube videos, for some of the earlier-than-the-headliners bands, in case you don't know them (yet). There are way more than these on the lineup... I got as far as adding The Mendenhall Experiment to the playlist, started reading the guitarist' and band's story, and it was so compelling and inspirational... so don't miss any of this festival, it's going to be brilliant!

letlive, Reluctantly Dead, and probably at the calmest that you'll see them at any point in the Aftershock set. Do not, and I repeat, do not miss this band!!! On stage on Saturday at 1.25 pm.

Whitechapel, Our Endless War: on stage on Sunday at 12.50

Avatar: Bloody Angel: can't wait to see these guys for the first time: Saturday at 2 pm.

Baroness: Chlorine & Wine: Saturday at 3.10

Parkway Drive, Vice Grip: currently seeing a lot of radio airplay, Parkway Drive will be on stage on Sunday at 2.30 pm.

Silver Snakes, Glass: check these guys out at 1.20 on Sunday.

Deafheaven, Sunbather: on stage at 4.45 on Saturday.

Sacramento's own Some Fear None, Out of Our Hands... and opening the Sunday show at 11.50 a.m. See. You need to be there at the beginning of the day!

Aeges, Another Wasteland: see them at 12.20 on Saturday.

The Shrine, Coming Down Quick: Saturday at 11.15 Saturday. Again: be there when the gates open!

And last but by very means not least in this preview, The Mendenhall Experiment and Seize The Day. If you haven't heard about these guys before, check out the story... Courage, strength, faith in oneself... you can be who you are meant to be. What an inspirational story!!! Go see them, 12.20 pm on Sunday.

All times are subject to change: follow Aftershock on social media to keep up-to-date! I'll see you all there... but first I'm off to San Francisco for the opening of Marillion's North America tour, see you there too!