PipemanRadio Interviews Dry Kill Logic at Aftershock 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Dry Kill Logic at Aftershock 2025

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Aftershock 2025 Draws Record-Breaking Crowd Of Over 164,000 Fans, The Largest In The Festival’s History  

The West Coast’s Ultimate Rock, Punk & Metal Destination 115+ Bands • 4 Unforgettable Days • Fans From Every Corner of the Globe

Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park, generating an estimated $35 million in local economic impact.  

The West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival reached new heights in 2025.

Debuting in 2025, Aftershock introduced several new fan-favorite experiences that elevated the  festival weekend to new heights. The Capitol Club offered an all-inclusive oasis with premium amenities and elevated views of the main stage, while Tremors Dive Bar kept the energy high with a pop-up set by  DJ Rock Feed with surprise guests My Darkest Days, and a special Sunday takeover by Sacramento’s own The Jungle Bird. Fans also discovered spontaneous performances at Beatbox and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speakeasy hidden beneath the underpass — each adding to the sense of discovery and excitement that defined this year’s festival.  

To celebrate DWP’s cultural and economic impact to the region, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, Senator Angelique Ashby, and Assemblymember Maggy Krell honored Danny Wimmer Presents with official recognitions from the City of Sacramento, the California State Senate, and the California State Assembly. The proclamation and resolutions celebrate Aftershock’s decade-long legacy, recognizing its profound cultural, economic, and charitable contributions to the Sacramento community and beyond, and highlighting how the festival has firmly established the city as a premier destination for live music in California.  

The 2026 dates for Aftershock will be announced in the coming months along with early bird tickets, allowing fans to lock-in lower level pricing and maximum payment plan options. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to the festival’s official social media channels and AftershockFestival.com.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Aftershock featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Animal Place, Astral Tequila, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft, Body Art Express, California Army National Guard, Coors Light, Don Julio, Eargasm, Freak On a Leash, Fxck Cancer, Golden State Cider, Hyatt Vacation Club, Jack Daniel's, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Little Rocker Clothing, Mortus Viventi, Nowhere Fast, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Pretty Cult, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, and Waterloo Sparkling Water.  

Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento and is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.  

For more information on Aftershock please visit:
Website: www.aftershockfestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aftershockfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aftershockfestival
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true, way crazy young.
It's a pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man
W four c Y Radio, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Here with Clifforgano dry Kill Logic.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Nice here at Aftershock. Guess sir, oh man, you're making
the rounds and the Danny Wimmer festivals. Man, that's so cool.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're just so grateful to be a part of all this.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
We've been a we played this one, played Rockville, we
played Incarceration, and each one is just a masterclass in
live events.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So we're just stoked.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
And they're all so different too, like the vibe, it's different.
I love Ink because it's at Shawshank Prison. That's like
kind of insane.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
One year I was there. I was taking pictures. Exeth
the artis was taking pictures and he's like, hey, can
you take my picture? I'll take yours. Look at us.
We're fanboying out on Shawshank Prison.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
And seriously, and and to put it at incits in
a prison at rock Villa, it's in the infield of
racist It's like like that's real experience for folks, and
they've just got it so well mapped out that it's
like it's just wild to be a part of.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well. I love hearing after Shock. It has all the trees,
the vibe like I've watched in previous years where people
are like sitting in the trees watching it.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
No shit, really, that's pretty awesome, right, Yeah, that's super cool.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So it's been like twenty years since you played Cali.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, wild right, twenty years man, since two since two
thousand and six. We were touring on the second record
and we came off the road actually two thousand and five,
as a matter of fact, in two thousand and six,
we came off the road in the US wrote a
Vengeance and Violence, and then we toured twice in Europe
and once in Australia. We never toured again in the
US after we came off the road for the Dead
and Dreaming. By two thousand and seven, we were kind

(01:59):
of on high. So it's like we've only been here
on the second album for the first two So, like
it's crazy now twenty years later to come back and everybody's.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Much more familiar with the music than they were the
first time.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was kind of weird too, right, Like I see
a trend to that happening, like acid Bath, first time
in twenty eight years, and like most of the people
that are into them aren't even from twenty eight years.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Again, well that's the other part too, it's not necessarily
people just coming back after twenty years.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
There's the audience is so varied. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's just a wild witness because you definitely see folks
who were there in the beginning, and then you see
folks who clearly of the age where they couldn't have been,
and it's just.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
So cool to see them all in the same crowd.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So yeah, and you know what I think's cool is
you go back to like the eighties. I would have
never as a teenager gone to see people my age
and the band right, and certainly my dad was never
going to take me to a metal show or any
kind of rock shroo. But yet today you see parents, grandparents, kids,

(03:07):
like every generation showing up at festivals like this. I
think it's fucking cool.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's really cool. And I noticed this. We're back.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
We start playing again and now we rehearse, so we're
in reversal studios and we go to local bars to
watch other bands, like and it's really interesting because like
you come here and you see the bands perform and
you look in the audience and you see an audience
it's like totally resonating with the band of all ages.
But then like now for us, we're in the studios
and the bars, and we see the audience in their

(03:39):
own bands playing and kind of emulating what they see,
and like you see, you're like, oh you love metal,
and like you go to the shows and you're in
your own band and you write your own songs and
you stand on that stage and you fucking live it
the same way you take from the bands that are
on there. But the part that's most exciting is that
in those small bars and in those studios, the audience
for those local bands are they're little brothers and little sisters,

(04:02):
and they look up to them the same way that
man looks up to the part.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And if you'd see it, you can see.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
This generational connection to your point where when a show
comes to town, dad and your uncles and your kids
all want to go because you all have this communal
appreciation of it. I don't see that very often in
many other genres of music, with like singular artists that way.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, you can be an argument it happens, but it
doesn't seem as prevalent as it does. That's in metal.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's why I have this idea, if we want to
solve all the world's problems, we need to have one
music festival for the whole world's required to attend. Because
we're all insiders here and we're all united here. We're
one big family, and we have no problems here. And
I think we could work it all out that.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
All your problems could be solved in the pit.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
There.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
It is. That's you an't gonna come out of here
lined exactly one way or the other, are coming out
of here.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Aline, And I think people don't understand that's what the
pit's all about. It's not about being violent. It's about
not about hurting maymon people. It's actually about so you're
not violent, hurt and maymen people on the outside. Yeah,
when I have shit going on in my life, I
go leave it all in the pit and then I'm
not kicking the shit out of somebody in real life.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, it's true. I mean, listen, you produce energy throughout
a day. You gotta let it out somehow otherwise it
just becomes unproductive. And that's where the power of heavy
music really starts to transcend just a genre, or it
starts to change how you think about things. That has
the power to do that. And that's the wild, wildest
part of it all.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I think it's amazing. And you guys also have new music, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
We put out a song in May and now you
Belong with the Dad. It's our first single in five
or six years. It was really well received. I think
now the time has come for us to write a record.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, so we're gonna this is our last show and
then we commence writing the next albums.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
How do you feel the writing process is for you
now compared to twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
You know, it's a great question. I think now we
have the benefit of time, Yes, so we can be
thoughtful about do we like this, do we not like this?
If yes, why, if know why, and we can spend
time focusing on the songs and standing in service to
the songs. Where previously it's like you got four months, right,
crack out a record. You know, So you'll go in

(06:19):
and write a bunch of guitar riffs, You'll go in
and write a bunch of drums to them. I'll come
back with some lyrics and some patterns and let's just
go to the studio and you never really do the.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Diligence to be like, have we landed it? Could it
be better?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
And I always feel like at least I can always
be for me. But like when I'll go back over
time and I'll listen to lyrics, I'll be like, Dad,
I could have been better. Ah, I could have nailed
that one.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
So but again now, I think having the time and
being able to put in the rigor to that part
is probably the biggest difference between now and then.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But we're all older now too, that right plays and
part well.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
And I also think COVID played a part. I've said
for a while that what COVID did for artists has
allowed them to jump off the hamster wheel that you're
talking about. It's like co tour, write songs on the bus,
you have to submit it by a certain time. It's
not really finished, but it has to be. Whereas COVID
allowed ours to stop and think of how they really

(07:11):
wanted their music to sound right truth, And that's what
you're game to do now. And I think and it
is part of being older that is to benefit because
you think a little differently and you take a little
more control of your art.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's truth. Yeah, you're absolutely right. You said it quite well.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
At the end of the day, I think now we're
not necessarily going to out energy our younger selves, right,
And I think that's probably impossible, but I probably we
can spend a little bit more time out thinking our
younger selves and putting that into the rigor of songwriting
and performance.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
And that's been exciting. When we think about live shows.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Where we think about new music, we never really thought
about it as well, how can we be like the
best performers, right, we just thought about it, get on
the stage and smash. And now it's just a different approach.
I largely because we're so goddamn old. Everything hurts soon.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
And maybe that is why kids today are appreciating the
older bands, because like when we were younger, most of
the bands kind of sucked, like especially in like the
punk arena because and bands I love, but it's like,
why do you become a punk musician because you didn't
know how to play an instrument?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah right, right, right? You know, yeah, well listen to
that point.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Like we used to laugh because our bible was getting
the van from Henry Rollins and we.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Used to laugh all the time.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
We'd just be like fucking Rollins would Rollins would play
the show, Ronins would get in the van, You get
in the van.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
It's funny because that ethos, to your point, was like
the driving factor. It was the spirit of the thing
that kept you moving. And maybe that's yeah, to your point,
maybe that's part of the appeal of living in a
time when that could be the sole driver of your destiny,
was just getting the fucking.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Van right, right. And then now that you're older, it's
like I've learned how to actually do this.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, seriously, right, right, right, No, it's true.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
You're right, it is anything else you want to let
the listeners know that we haven't covered already.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
You know, we're gonna start writing this record. I'll tell
you the title, drum roll. Your sins will find you.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
They find me all the exactly, man.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, you can't run from them. We don't have a
release date or anything like that yet. And then we're
gonna be releasing some new tour dates pretty soon. For
twenty twenty six, we're gonna be doing more headline shows.
So we've got some stuff coming up. It's called the
decades of distance tour, and it's gonna be like dates
spread out through the US.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Play just again, places we haven't been in twenty years.
Just come back. Play some awesome shows, play some songs
folks haven't seen. Just have a good time.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Time so well.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I love that you're here at Aftershock. And thanks for
being on the adventure.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Thank you for having me Fell, I appreciate you man.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio.