PipemanRadio Interviews 3 Inches of Blood at Aftershock 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews 3 Inches of Blood 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):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's shirt.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Wow for you young. It's a pipe man here on
the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Here with campipes from three Inches of Blood.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Nice And I like your shirt, thank you. That's badass shirt.
So let me see the rest of it. He's got
an iron Man shirt on. That's one of the bad
most badass looking eddies I've ever seen. I love it.
So you're here it after shock?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, it's been a fun day so far.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right where you shocked at hat with it being the
last ATA festival early in the day and that many
people out there to see you play.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, yes and no.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I mean it's always either way, it's fucking awesome, right,
But I think when.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
You go to some of these We've just played a
bunch of vestvals.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
In Europe in the summer and we've had some early
slots on those, and it seems like the real diehards
are going to be there no matter what. So we've
had good luck with people just showing up in good
numbers regardless of how early we're playing.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
We played we were on today like two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
We've played it like just after noon on some other
festivals overseas, and yeah, a ton of people show up
as well. So I think it just shows that there's
more people than we realize that are die hard fans
or just people that are curious or like, I want
to check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
And I think they'll.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Hear you come over because that builds that curiosity. Dude,
They're like, oh, let me check this out.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, yeah, I would hope that there's a bunch of
people who, like I just don't know what's going on.
They're like, oh, okay, and they kind of wander over
and hopefully they stick around for the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, totally. And so which festivals did you do in Europe?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, we did.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
We did two separate trips. We did Into the Grave
in the Netherlands and Hellfest in June.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I was Ericto, you were That's all, that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I love it was hellish as terms of the heat,
but amazing festival, great experience for us. And then in
August we did Whacken and Brutal Assaults in the Czech Republic,
we did Alcatraz and Belgium Bloodstock I was Bloodzog.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Was a good time.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I love that festival and it was our first time
back there for since twenty thirteen. Wow, yeah, we hadn't
been a lot of these festivals. Brutal Salt we'd never
known before, Like Whacken we hadn't played in seventeen years.
Alcatraz that was our first time there, and then we
also did Summer Breeze Nice in Germany on our first

(02:51):
time there since.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh wait, it's great times.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Do you have one that stood out that was a favorite.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's really hard to pick a fit. I will say
they all. The one unifying theme is I think everyone
had a good time, both ourselves and the crowd.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Whacken was rainy, miserable.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Days listen, but I was gonna cover Valking and I
don't know how this cut feeling. I'm like, maybe I'll
pass this year. And then I saw afterwards, I'm like, okay,
good move. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Maybe if you were like a fan or whatever attending
or like any if you're not playing, then I could
see it being like a really rough time. And it
was hard enough for us, just kind of like hanging
out finding cover from the rain. And then when we played,
it was just pouring like crazy, but the people came out.
They were there, like our stage area was packed and

(03:48):
they maybe didn't mosh pitting the mud too much, but
they showed their appreciation, so that's cool.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
And the European festivals, so people that attend them, there's
such dieards like there. When I've watched these people walking
for miles with all their camping equipment, I'm like, now
that's dedication and that's love of music, because I don't
think anybody would do a camping festival like that in

(04:14):
the States. We like driving up to our camp site.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, totally. I'm the same way. I like at least
an outhouse nearby. I know, right, some kind of amenities, right,
a sink to wash my hands.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
So, speaking of Danny Wimmer festivals, how do you feel
that Danny Wimmer festivals compared to European Because used to
be the Europeans were the epitome of a great festival.
But now I think Wimmer has taken the good parts
of the European added a little better parts over here

(04:47):
and created almost a similar scenario, but maybe even better.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think there's definitely a lot of similarities to the
European festivals. I think this is our first experience at
one of these big American rock and metal festivals. I mean,
we did os Fast and Mayhem back in the day,
but those are.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Like tourings different.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, to be at a site, it's everything's going on
for three four days like they do overseas at one
site and then you're there for a day. I think
they're doing a really good job here so and definitely
we'd love to be doing more of this at some
of the other ones around the contrary for sure.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
And so from your experience today, how do you feel
Danny Wimmer treats the artists excellent.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
We've been welcomed and treated very well here see, and
we've had it. We had a great time or I
think everything went really well, all the crew, we've met,
everyone working the show. No complaints so far and we're
only like halfway through the day.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So and that's pretty hard to say because I know
that there's a lot of times that there can be
complaints by the arts only because it becomes so stressful.
If loading isn't easy, it soundcheck doesn't work out well,
if you're not getting amenities. What I've heard is like
every artist gets read it the same, whether you're the

(06:02):
first one of the day or you're the last one.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, that's what it should be. I mean, we're easy
to please. I think we don't really complain. We've been
all over the map in terms of being the first
band on to being a little higher billing at some
other places. And give us something to drink and something
to eat, and we're good and we'll put on a
good show for you.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's kind of how we operate.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
And you definitely put on a good show here it
after shock.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I think we did ball right there you go.
People seem to enjoy it, so I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's all that matters if you enjoy it too. That's
the thing that I look for. I look and see
if the band is enjoying themselves, because then we're gonna
enjoy ourselves exactly. It's just like that. So what was
it that caused you to have the music bug? What
thing in life made you think this is the life

(06:52):
I want?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, my parents actually encouraged me to or built appreciate
for music in me. They mostly listened to classical music,
which is great. I love classical music and my parents
to thank for that. But beyond that, I kind of
had to find things for myself. I had friends who
exposed me to rock and heavy metal, at an early age,

(07:16):
and I went on different paths musically, explored a lot
of stuff, had different phases in my life, but heavy
music was always there, and that's what's resonated with me
the most throughout my life.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
And what's interesting. When I was in college in a
music class, basically we were told that heavy metal is
a derivative of classical Oh. Absolutely, yeah, So you still
went in the same path, evolved it to what was
personal to you and took what your parents gave you, yeah,

(07:51):
and made it personal to you.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah. And I didn't.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I wouldn't realize how supportive they were going to be
once I became a teenage because they had me playing
piano from early age, I never really took to it.
And then I met a friend in junior high school
who could play guitar and we had a similar taste
in music and.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
We wanted to start a band together.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was like, man, I really I got to I
read a He's like, oh, I want to play guitar too,
and he's like, you should learn to play the bass
because I know a drummer, like you should learn to
play the bass, and then we could start a band.
So I went to my parents and said, hey, I
don't want to play piano anymore. I want to switch
instruments and play the bass.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
They're like okay. I was like, we're just happy you
want to keep playing music.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was like, oh wow. So it was a pleasant
surprise for me.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I thought that they were so invested in my sister
who played piano, and I thought they wanted me to
do exactly the same thing as her because she got
really good at it. But they were like no, they
if you don't like it, that's fine, Like, but if
you would still want to play music, then.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I love that they used to let us jam in
the in their basement when we were needed a place
to practice for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
That's cool.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, So they were always supportive.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
How many parents in Orgy would say that, you know, yeah,
you it would be more like get a real job exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You know, Well, there was a time when the band
was doing a little more serious stuff and we're trying
to make a go of it, and there was always like, well,
it's cool, you're having fun, but you know, that's not
a real career. Maybe you should go back to school
or like, work on getting a real job. That music

(09:27):
is a hobby, and then all of a sudden they're
reading about you in a magazine and they're like, oh, okay,
I guess this is a I guess I kind of
underestimated how far this would go. But the support for
playing music was always there. It was just it's like, well,
what are the odds you're gonna like make a living
playing musicians?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
But fair enough, like they were being practical and pragmatic,
and you take their advice and be like, Okay, maybe
you're right, but I'm gonna just see how this goes.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
There you go, I love and I love that too,
because that's what it takes. It really just takes a
lot of persistence and perseverance.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh totally.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
I always say an overnight success takes about twenty years.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
M hmm.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right, yeah, there's really no such thing as an overnight
success exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
People think there you.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Got to know the right people in a lot of cases,
but yeah, connections is key for sure.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I have a trivia question for you, Okay, a bassist
trivia question. Hmmm, alright, who is one of the most
popular bassist ever in the history of rock music that
was originally a guitarist? And because there were three guitars,
he drew the short straw of who he was gonna

(10:38):
play bass.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Oh huh, so it's from a two guitar band. Three guitars,
but they only needed too. Yep, oh man, famous rock band.
You say, yep, geez, can you give me a hint?

(11:00):
I'll give you two ends, okay.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
One of the most famous rock bands, number one, number two.
They sounded kind of funny when they.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Talked, you know, Paul McCartney.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Big nough is it it is? Now? If you go
back and listen to his music, he sounds like he's
playing the bass like a guitar. Like I never noticed
it until I heard that, and listen back, I'm like,
oh shit, he sounds like he's playing guitar on the
bass and I never even thought he stood out that much,

(11:39):
but he does, so it's wild.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
And another Beatles quote I found funny was an interview
asking them It's like, it's like, how does it feel
to have Ringo star like the best drummer in the world,
And then one of them answered, like, Ringo's not even
the best or the best drummer in the world. Ringo's
not even the best drummer. And the Beatles.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
I remember that that was funny. Now go in the
opposite direction if you watch Not to Get Back one
but the documentary with I think it was Rick Rubin,
where it was Paul McCartney, Rick Rubin listening to Beatles
things and analyze it. Yeah, I was so I thought
it was so cool Paul McCartney's listen to this one

(12:24):
song and he goes back then I was just playing
with my bloke John Yeah, and now I'm like, oh
my god, I played with John Lennon like he was
fan boying out on John Lennon. That. I just thought
that was the coolest thing. I think when you get
to that level, you become more humble than rising up

(12:44):
to that level.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah you know, well I would hope so it takes
stock of your life and be like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, totally cool. What else do you want to talk
about that the listeners need to know that you have
upcoming or this is.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Our last show for A twenty twenty five and so
far we've got playing Hell's Heroes Festival in Houston next
year next March. Nice and we'll see what else, what
else happens. In the meantime, we're we're definitely gonna just
keep busy, but we're gonna try and write some new songs.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, I am totally pumped that you ended your year
at Aftershock. Thank It's a good way to fish the
festival and I love that you were here me too.
Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.