HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Hard Rock & Metal Concerts in Manchester
Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush
The Citadel Theatre
Sat 14 Mar - Fri 10 Apr 2026
UK Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Tribute Band
The Grand
Sat 14 Nov 2026 - Sat 27 Feb 2027
Queensryche
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 22 June 2026
One of the most distinctive bands of the 80s, American progressive metal band Queensryche scored UK Top 40 hits with "Silent Lucidity", "Best I Can", "Bridge", and "I Am I" between 1990 and 1994, selling over 20 million albums worldwid...
The Black Crowes
Albert Hall, Manchester
Thursday 25 June 2026
 Although essentially a modern blues rock group, chart-topping Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, better known as The Black Crowes, cite many musical influences, such as psychedelic pop from the 1960s, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the ...Bilmuri (Attack Attack!)
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Friday 26 June 2026
Johnny Franck, also known as Bilmuri, is an American hard rock singer-songwriter best known as the former clean vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Attack Attack! ...Lone
Yes, Manchester
Friday 26 June 2026
Find tickets and full event details for Lone live in the UK, including venues, performance dates, and accessibility information. Where can I buy tickets for Lone?Tickets for Lone can be purchased safely and securely from Eventim UK. We reco...Megadeth Uk
St Mary's Chambers, Rossendale
Friday 26 June 2026
Megadeth UK was formed in December 2007 by Richie and Darryl when their previous band disbanded. Both had been watching Megadeth since 1987 and are dedicated to bringing Megadeth's music to the masses of the UK, Europe and beyond. The set l...Outbreak Fest
Bowlers Exhibition Centre, Manchester
Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 June 2026
Finding its roots in hardcore and punk, Manchester's three day Outbreak Fest has built a major platform to the UK's consistently thriving counterculture, while also providing a rite of passage for major touring acts across the world such as...Classic Albums Live - Led Zeppelin II
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 30 June 2026
Do you remember dropping the needle on the world's greatest albums? Classic Albums Live does. Since 2003, Classic Albums Live has been performing iconic albums, live on stage, using the world's best musicians. Classic Albums Live is the mod...Sammy Hagar (Van Halen)
AO Arena, Manchester
Saturday 4 July 2026
For almost forty years, Sammy Hagar has been one of rock music's most dynamic and prolific artists. From first bursting onto the scene in San Francisco as the lead singer of seminal hard rock band Montrose to his multiplatinum solo career ...Def Leppard
Co-op Live, Manchester
Monday 6 July 2026
 Blending glam metal gloss with hard rock heft and pop hooks, Sheffield titans Def Leppard have spent over five decades defining - and defying - the sound of stadium-sized rock, selling over 100 million records in the process. Tapping int...Cancer Bats performing as Bat Sabbath - Tribute to Black Sabbath
Rebellion, Manchester
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Canadian hardcore punk band Cancer Bats perform as their alter ego Bat Sabbath, a tribute to Black Sabbath. ...Breaking Benjamin
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Thursday 16 July 2026
Forming in 1998, and led by vocalist and guitarist, Benjamin Burnley, Pennsylvania hard rockers Breaking Benjamin have forged their own path through their angst-fuelled lyrics, crunching guitars and swelling choruses, that has seen them sel...Breaking Benjamin
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 16 July 2026
Forming in 1998, and led by vocalist and guitarist, Benjamin Burnley, Pennsylvania hard rockers Breaking Benjamin have forged their own path through their angst-fuelled lyrics, crunching guitars and swelling choruses, that has seen them sel...S8nt Elektric
Holy Diver, Stockport
Friday 17 July 2026
S8NT ELEKTRIC has quickly become a force in the heavy music scene for their colorful and adrenaline-fueled approach to the genre....Steel Panther
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 21 July 2026
The comedic glam metal band from Sunset Strip, Los Angeles are a living, breathing study in the art of "hair metal". With tongues firmly lodged in their cheeks, Steel Panther celebrate and ridicule all that was good and bad about the "great...
RADAR Festival
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Friday 31 July - Sunday 2 August 2026
The progressive rock and metal festival is back with a stella line-up:Â FRIDAY 31 JULY -THY ART IS MURDER +CHELSEA GRIN +SIKTH +VIANOVA + GRAPHIC NATURE +Â PINTGLASS + GHOST IRIS + HACKTIVIST +CAGE FIGHT + CLT DRP + SIXTH WONDER + ROZEMARYS...Firevolt Rock Festival
Whitebottom Farm, Stockport
Thursday 6 August 2026
 Formally FIRESTORM Festival, Manchester's Best Camping Rock Fest, bringing you the best rock bands on 2 stages over 3 days on a picturesque farm through Etherow Country Park. ...Arch Enemy
Rebellion, Manchester
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Sweden's extreme metal titans Arch Enemy return with more guttural force, powerful signature guitar riffs and clean vocal surprises. ...Primus
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 17 August 2026
Since 1984, Primus have followed in the footsteps of boundary-pushing artists like Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd to create some of the most original and inventive music in existence. The Californian rock band's incomparable sound is cerebral a...Hollywood Vampires
AO Arena, Manchester
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Hollywood Vampires is the rock supergroup which lives and breathes the spontaneous magic of three megastars - the legendary Alice Cooper, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, and Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp. With some of the purest, most una...Sabbotage - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
The Spinning Top, Stockport
Friday 21 August 2026
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...A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 22 August 2026
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 ...Rushed - A Tribute to Rush
The Spinning Top, Stockport
Saturday 22 August 2026
Rushed are a three piece authentic tribute act performing the music of Canada's finest progressive Rock trio - Rush. ...Heaven Can Wait - A Tribute to the Music of Meat Loaf
Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Friday 28 August 2026
Carlton Entertainment brings you their brand-new production featuring Meat Loaf's greatest hits. Following a Sold Out tour of Spain in 2024, This showstopping concert launches across Europe in 2025. Featuring the incredible vocals of Lee Br...The Bon Jovi Experience
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 4 September 2026
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...Women in Rock
Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Friday 4 September 2026
Dance and sing along to this spectacular show celebrating 5 decades of the world's greatest female rock legends. From Quatro to Joplin, Cher to Turner, Pink to Blondie, Heart to Benatar, the set list is endless with one classic after anothe...Martin Turner (Wishbone Ash)
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 4 September 2026
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...
Evanescence
Co-op Live, Manchester
Thursday 10 September 2026
Since bursting on to the scene in 2003 with their UK chart-topping hit "Bring Me to Life", Little Rock, Arkansas, gothic metal act Evanescence have gone on to be one of the world's selling rock acts with over 30 million sales worldwide. The...Mothership - Led Zeppelin Tribute
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Friday 11 September 2026
No Costumes, No Wigs, No Nonsense... Led Zeppelin tribute MOTHERSHIP - described in Classic Rock Magazine as "the most authentic-sounding Zep tribute in the UK" - are bringing their brand new show, celebrating the music of the greatest rock...Emofest
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 12 September 2026
Put on your eyeliner, lace up your high-tops and get ready to rock to all your favourite nostalgic emo anthems as the Emo Festival is the greatest tribute night to the music that was never just a phase...  Teenage Nostalgia featuring all ...Spiritbox
Co-op Live, Manchester
Wednesday 16 September 2026
The Canadian metal outfit fronted by vocalist Courtney LaPlante showcase the fluidity that is inherent in heavy music, ranging from atmospheric to industrial, reaching UK no.19 with their dubut album in 2021. ...VUKOVI
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 19 September 2026
 Scottish pop-rock outfit Vukovi (which means "wolves" in Serbian) demand your attention with songs taking in themes of individuality, drug abuse, depression and suicide.    ...Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show
Waterside, Manchester
Saturday 19 September 2026
Live/Wire is the AC/DC Show. The hugely successful and unique six-man tribute to rock music's greatest band, AC/DC - complete with cannons, a wall of Marshalls and over two hours of High Voltage Rock 'n' Roll, in a show critically acclaimed...Gutalax - Manchester
The Bread Shed, Manchester
Saturday 19 September 2026
Gutalax, Basement Torture Killings & Coprocephalic Mutation at The Bread Shed...I Prevail
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Tuesday 22 September 2026
I Prevail is an American metalcore band formed in New Baltimore, Michigan in 2013. They released their debut EP Heart vs. Mind (2014) and rose to popularity from releasing a metal cover of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" as a single, which eve...Jazz Sabbath
Band On The Wall, Manchester
Thursday 24 September 2026
Created by Adam Wakeman, touring keyboard and guitar player for Black Sabbath (2004-2017) and Ozzy Osbourne band member (2004-present), Jazz Sabbath is a fictional English jazz trio said to be from the late sixties. The band plays jazz rend...Laibach
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Laibach is a music and cross-media group from Slovenia established in 1980 in Trbovlje. The name of the band is the historic German version of the name Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. From the start Laibach has developed a "Gesamtkunstwerk" -...Wishbone Ash
The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Friday 2 October 2026
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...Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show
The Met, Bury
Friday 2 October 2026
Live/Wire is the AC/DC Show. The hugely successful and unique six-man tribute to rock music's greatest band, AC/DC - complete with cannons, a wall of Marshalls and over two hours of High Voltage Rock 'n' Roll, in a show critically acclaimed...The Ultimate Classic Rock Show
RNCM, Manchester
Saturday 3 October 2026
Dust off your air guitars for an evening of the very best classic rock anthems from legends past and present! Let The Ultimate Classic Rock Show take you on a roller coaster journey of classic rock nostalgia. Performing hit after hit live w...
The Big 4- Tribute to the Legends of Thrash- THE BREAD SHED
The Bread Shed, Manchester
Saturday 3 October 2026
The Big 4- Tribute to the Legends of ThrashTributes to: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth & Anthrax...Amon Amarth
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 9 October 2026
Taking their name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth are poised to return to full action with a bloody, broadsword-wielding vengeance. Still ruthl...The HU
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 10 October 2026
Receiving critical acclaim from the likes of Sir Elton John, Metallica, Papa Roach, and Halestorm, Mongolian modern rock group The HU are rooted in the tradition of their homeland. The band's name translates to the Mongolian root word for h...The Amity Affliction
