HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Hard Rock & Metal Concerts in Manchester
Limehouse Lizzy - The Greatest Hits of Thin Lizzy
Manchester Academy
Sat 27 Sep - Sat 29 Nov 2025
Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show
Manchester Academy
Fri 19 Dec 2025 - Sat 28 Mar 2026
Festwich Tribute Festival
Heaton Park, Manchester
Saturday 30 August 2025
The tribute act festival that brings you blistering sets from the best rock and indie bands in the universe. Now with 3 stages over 2 days. ...C2 Presents Pit-Nic at The Alma
The Alma Inn, Bolton
Saturday 30 August 2025
An all-day event consisting of 13 bands - Hardcore- Thrash...Scene Queen
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 5 September 2025
Hannah Collins, formerly ROSE, is the "Pretty in Pink" blonde New York singer known for coining the style "bimbocore", a "hyperfeminine offshoot of metalcore" that "blends the reclaimed hyperfeminine aesthetics and vocal distortions of genr...The Bon Jovi Experience
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Saturday 6 September 2025
The Bon Jovi Experience are the world's first and unquestionably finest tribute to the great Bon Jovi. They are the only tribute to have been featured on the band's official website, not to mention being the only tribute to have been reques...Deathwish Rock & Metal Night
The Brickhouse, St Helens
Saturday 6 September 2025
Local legends & firm favourites Deathwish return to the Brickhouse Rock Night...Cave In
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 12 September 2025
The legendary long established Massachusetts metalcore band have remained one of the best contemporary rock, hardcore, and metal bands since making their monumental debut in 1998. Since bassist Caleb Scofield died in 2018, the band have con...Poison The Well
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 13 September 2025
The current hardcore scene wouldn't be what it is today without Miami metalcore act Poison The Well. They pretty much invented the "screamo /metalcore" genre. Their first two full lengths "The Opposite of December" and "Tear From The Red...Blackgold
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 13 September 2025
Masked British alternative rockers Blackgold fuse nu-metal, industrial rock, and hip-hop influences. Reminiscent of bands like Slipknot, their politically charged sound draws comparisons to Rage Against the Machine and Fever 333, with a ra...False Heads
Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Saturday 13 September 2025
Think QOTSA and The Pixies with a bit of The Ramones thrown in. With over 1 million streams on Spotify and over 500K on Apple Music and plaudits a plenty right in the middle of a global pandemic London's False Heads are a post-punk trio, wh...
Sleep Broken - A Tribute to Sleep Token
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 19 September 2025
UK Tribute to album chart topping London rockers Sleep Token, best known for their UK Top 10 hit "Caramel" ...earthtone9
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 20 September 2025
Nottingham cult metal band earthtone9 combine a wide variety of influences from rock, metal, noise and hardcore. Characteristic are the constant mood changes within individual songs and albums. Often, heaviness and oppressive moments are ...
Pierce the Veil
Co-op Live, Manchester
Thursday 25 September 2025
Platinum-selling San Diego powerhouse rockers are iconic in their genre, and rightfully so, after topping Billboard's rock and alternative album charts numerous times. They're back with more fuzzy guitars, massive melodic hooks, and distin...Nekrogoblikon
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 25 September 2025
Los Angeles melodic death metal band Nekrogoblikon produce music centred around goblins. Nekrogoblikon burst onto the metal scene with their breakout video for "No One Survives," which introduced the world to John Goblikon, the band's unfor...Hits Out Of Hell - The Meat Loaf Songbook
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 26 September 2025
The World's premier show in tribute to Meatloaf, featuring the Ultimate 'Dead Ringer' to Meatloaf Craig Halford as seen on ITV's 'Stars in their eyes' and Channel 4's 'The Last Leg'. Experience all the hits from what is one of the best-sell...W.A.S.P.
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Saturday 27 September 2025
American West Coast heavy metal band W.A.S.P. emerged in 1982 from the same Los Angeles scene that spawned Motley Crue, Ratt, Quiet Riot and others. The band was a prominent target in the mid-1980s of the Parents Music Resource Center (P...Limehouse Lizzy - The Greatest Hits of Thin Lizzy
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 27 September 2025
Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive, well and dominating stages worldwide. The band have also added a tribute into their show to ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist (and world reno...The Freddie & Queen Experience - Queen & Freddie Mercury Tribute
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 27 September - Friday 24 October 2025
One of the UK's premier, internationally and critically acclaimed Queen & Freddie Mercury tribute bands, delivering a passionate and energy packed show chock full of Queen's greatest hits! Ian Adams as Freddie Mercury replicates Freddie M...A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
The Met, Bury
Saturday 27 September 2025
Legendary bands Foreigner and Journey are giants of the AOR (Adult Orientated Rock) and Classic Rock genres, attracting huge audiences as live acts since forming in the 1970's. Sadly for those in the UK, their shows over here have been few ...Angels of Darkness - A Tribute to The World of Goth
The Spinning Top, Stockport
Saturday 27 September 2025
Birmingham's premier gothic rock tribute band deliver an almost encyclopaedic collection of music from the World of Goth: from A to Dead! Expect a "Weird beautiful mixture of exquisite excellence" paying tribute to not only 80s greats such ...Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash)
Warrington Irish Club, Warrington
Sunday 28 September 2025
Martin Turner is a founding original member of Wishbone Ash and lead vocalist, bassist and key creative force on iconic albums such as the original version of Argus along with Pilgrimage, There's the Rub and New England. Wishbone Ash was fo...
Atreyu
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 1 October 2025
California's own hardcore-metal outfit Atreyu return, exceeding all expectations and expanding the boundaries of metallic rock yet again. ...Refused
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Thursday 2 October 2025
The farewell tour from the Swedish Hardcore-punk legends. Refused pull no punches with their signature riffs and melodic blend of punk and hardcore. Cited as an influence by many including Linkin Park, Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Velv...Man With a Mission
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 3 October 2025
Japan's greatest rock sensation flawlessly execute straight-up indie rock metal like the one and only pack of Wolves they are! Their distinguishing feature is that all of the members wear differently designed wolf masks during both their co...Sabbotage - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
The Spinning Top, Stockport
Friday 3 October 2025
Formed from the ashes of the already established Sabbath Tribute Snowblind in 2014, immediately it was obvious that this band would become the most authentic and by far the best Black Sabbath tribute in the UK. All of the band are highl...Wishbone Ash
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 4 October 2025
The 1970's Torquay Prog-rock legends are noted for their extensive use of harmony twin lead guitars which helped Andy Powell and Ted Turner to be voted "Two of the Ten Most Important Guitarists in Rock History" and to appear in Rolling Sto...Bon Giovi - Tribute to Bon Jovi
St Mary's Chambers, Rossendale
Saturday 4 October 2025
Fronted by the UK's leading Bon Jovi impersonator Lee Tomkins, who himself has supported Bon Jovi at Dublin stadium in 2008, the World's premier look-a-like and sound-a-like band cover every aspect of Bon Jovi's extensive career, performing...Led-Into-Zeppelin - Tribute to Led Zeppelin
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 4 October 2025
With a reputation as one of the UK's premier tributes to the mighty Zeppelin, Led-Into-Zeppelin are made up of musicians who previously played with Slack Alice, and a late 80s musical venture called The Spurs together with well known Manc...The Swillers St.Helens Rock Music Club
The Brickhouse, St Helens
Saturday 4 October 2025
One of the best Northwest Circuit Rock & Metal Bands Return to Te Mighty Brickhouse What a Show...Parkway Drive
AO Arena, Manchester
Monday 6 October 2025
Parkway Drive has spent the past decade at the forefront of heavy music worldwide. The five-piece metal band from Byron Bay, Australia formed in 2002. Parkway Drive has released five studio albums including Killing with a Smile (2005), Hori...Birmingham Royal Ballet - Black Sabbath
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Carlos Acosta turns up the volume on Birmingham's musical legacy as he brings Black Sabbath - The Ballet to Lowry for the first time. Black Sabbath - The Ballet delivers a spectacular theatrical experience featuring thrilling dance alongsid...Blood Incantation
Albert Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Prepare to plunge into the abyss and stare down infinity with Denver interstellar progressive death metal band Blood Incanation bring their mind-bending cosmic brutality and voidward death metal to Europe. With songs about space and scienc...Killswitch Engage
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 9 October 2025
Having sold over four million records in the U.S., Massachusetts heavy metal heroes Killswitch Engage are considered one of the earliest leading forces of the metalcore genre. They have scored five Top 40 albums in the UK, with 2006's As D...
Paradise Lost
New Century Hall, Manchester
Thursday 9 October 2025
Obsidian... dark, reflective and black: it's a pretty decent description of the music that the Halifax death-doom pioneers have been making over the last 37 years, even though this most resilient of British metal bands have stoically ref...Architects
Co-op Live, Manchester
Friday 10 October 2025
Known for the explosive energy of their live performances and signature melodic edge, Brighton metalcore act Architects are back and charging forward in the heavy rock world. Having topped the UK album charts, their "anthem powerhouse" s...Testament & Obituary
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 10 October 2025
A co-headline gig from the thrash metal titans. California's Testament is often credited as one of the most popular and influential bands of the thrash metal scene, as well as one of the leaders of the second wave of the genre of the late 1...The Freddie & Queen Experience - Queen & Freddie Mercury Tribute
