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
UK Slam Fest 2025
The Bread Shed, Manchester
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 October 2025
The Most Extreme Fest In The Northwest returns in 2025 to celebrate 10 years of brutality...
Bleed From Within
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 11 October 2025
Glaswegian heavy metal band Bleed From Within "have breathed life into a kind of metal that has long become stagnant and they have done this on their own terms. No backing down and no comprising can be found." - Ghost Cult Magazine. "If you...Nova Twins
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 15 October 2025
The London heavy rap rock renegades are the zeitgeist-capturing polymath pioneers that our times have been waiting for. Playing with genre and rich in different moods, textures, and layers, all the while retaining that purity and simplic...Bury Tomorrow
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
Forming in Hampshire in 2006, metalcore outfit Bury Tomorrow rapidly propelled the genre into the British mainstream. Now comprising co-vocalists Daniel Winter-Bates and Jason Cameron, bassist Davyd Winter-Bates, drummer Adam Jackson, ...Steve 'n' Seagulls
The Met, Bury
Sunday 19 October 2025
It could've been a cold winter day or warm summer night in Finland - but it was around the year 2010. Someone came up with an idea to combine bluegrass, Finnish folk and rock/metal music. The outcome was and has since been Steve'n'Seagulls....Coheed and Cambria
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 20 October 2025
Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band formed in 1995. The group's critically acclaimed music incorporates aspects of progressive rock, pop, heavy metal, and post-hardcore. The southern California band Thrice merges hardco...Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple / Trapeze / Black Sabbath)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
The former bassist and singer of Deep Purple, known to millions as the 'Voice of Rock', Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and the current front man for rock super group Black Country Communion, is pleased to announce that he will be per...Those Damn Crows
Albert Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Modern Rock's unstoppable force, Welsh powerhouse Those Damn Crows have gone from strength to strength since achieving an official UK Top 15 with their sophomore album 'Point Of No Return' in 2020 and reaching no.3 with their 2023 follo...Battle Beast
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Famous for their energetic shows, incredibly catchy choruses and odd sense of humour, Finland's Battle Beast are destined for glory after topping the charts in their homeland and hitting #11 in Germany. Having toured tirelessly since they w...Igorrr
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Boasting an idiosyncratic experimental style, combining black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip hop into a singular sound, Igorrr is the pseudonym of French multi-instrumentalist and electronic producer Gautier Serre of electroni...Disturbed
AO Arena, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Emerging out of Chicago in 1994 with an insidious, infectious, and inimitable vision without comparison, Disturbed have quietly dominated hard rock on their own terms. They make the kind of heavy metal music that pushes you to hold on tight...
Sanctum Sanctorium - The Dark Side Of The 80s
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Formed through a mutual love of 80's goth and alternative rock music. Sanctum Santorium are a live 5-piece tribute band that faithfully recreate classic hits by artists such as The Cult, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Billy Idol, Bauhaus a...The Bohemians - A Night of Queen
The Met, Bury
Saturday 25 October 2025
The Show Must Go On' - and there's certainly no stopping this comprehensive re-enactment of Queens greatest hits! Internationally renowned Queen tribute band The Bohemians take you on a high energy roller coaster ride of a concert, featurin...Ten
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Mancunian melodic hard rock band Ten were formed in 1994 by frontman Gary Hughes following a prolific solo career. ...Purple - Deep Purple Tribute Show
Fields of the Nephilim
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 26 October 2025
Formed in Stevenage, 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. ...From Fall to Spring
Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Nu-metal fans can no longer ignore From Fall to Spring! Only narrowly eliminated in the ESC preliminary round, the combo from Germany has played their way straight into the hearts of fans. The sold-out headline shows on their tours speak fo...Graham Bonnet Band (Rainbow / Michael Schenker Group / Alcatrazz)
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 29 October 2025
After initially finding mainstream success with pop duo The Marbles - who reached no.5 in the UK with the single "Only One Woman", Graham Bonnet enjoyed a solo career throughout the 1970s, until truly making his mark with Ritchie Blackmore'...Skindred
Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Thursday 30 October 2025
In 2023, Skindred - one of the UK's most exciting live acts - celebrate their 25th anniversary. From hard-hitting metal to reggae, rock to pop, dub to electro, nothing's off limits for these Welsh ragga rock pioneers as their heavy, distor...Reef
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 30 October 2025
UK Album Chart-topping Glastonbury hard blues rockers REEF return with their thrilling blast of unadulterated funky rock'n'roll joy. Their energetic shows serve up nineties Top 10 classics such as "Place Your Hands", and "Come Back Brigh...King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Friday 31 October 2025
From lo-fi garage/surf-rock to thrash metal, Stu Mackenzie's Australian psychedelic rock band have morphed into a prolific, constantly-evolving group, releasing over 48 albums between September 2012 and June 2023, seventeen of which entered...Arch Enemy
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 31 October 2025
Sweden's extreme metal titans Arch Enemy return with more guttural force, powerful signature guitar riffs and clean vocal surprises. ...Lord Of The Lost
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 31 October 2025
Not only the sound is massive, but the German Eurovision genrefluid visionaries deliver a sophisticated offering, with the Hamburg gothic metal five-piece cementing their position as exceptional artists that can't be pigeonholed and have...Emofest
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
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 ...A Tribute to Jilly's Rockworld
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
A celebration of a Manchester institution, the legendary Oxford Road rock club opened in the 1970s - originally known as Fagan's before being renamed Jilly's in 1983 - attracting punks, rockers, goths, metalheads, skaters, moshers and ind...Heaven Can Wait - A Tribute to the Music of Meat Loaf
Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Saturday 1 November 2025
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...
Hanabie
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 1 November 2025
Hanabie. (花冷え。) is a Japanese metalcore band from Tokyo known for combining loud and heavy music with contrasting Harajuku aesthetics in a style self-described as "Harajuku-core". Their songs incorporate elements of metalcore, hardc...Band of Gypsies St.Helens Rock Music Club
The Brickhouse, St Helens
Saturday 1 November 2025
Band of Gypsies make their debut for a full on Rock Fest...Marilyn Manson
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Combining the name of sex symbol Marilyn Monroe with serial killer Charles Manson, Marilyn Manson (aka Brian Hugh Warner) is the lead singer and only constant member of the industrial metal band he formed in 1989. They have scored UK Top 20...Wednesday 13 (Murderdolls)
O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 5 November 2025
Theatrical horror punk alter-ego of Murderdolls frontman Joseph Poole. Wednesday 13 is the stage name of Joseph Poole, frontman of Murderdolls, the theatrical metal outfit that also includes members of Static-X and Slipknot. Starting off...Saxon
O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 7 November 2025
1979 was a momentous year for British Hard Rock, with the birth of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and the subsequent rise of future giants of the genre. After 40 years and 22 studio album releases, Saxon remain as one of those giants o...Rushed - A Tribute to Rush
Warrington Irish Club, Warrington
Friday 7 November 2025
Rushed are a three piece authentic tribute act performing the music of Canada's finest progressive Rock trio - Rush. ...Volbeat
AO Arena, Manchester
Saturday 8 November 2025
Danish rock trio VOLBEAT has topped the album charts all across Europe, graced the UK Top 10 and scored no less than ten #1 songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock airplay chart in the USA, the most ever for a band based outside North Ameri...The Plot in You
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 8 November 2025
With an eclectic style and creative flair Ohio rock band The Plot in You have spent years crafting their unique take on modern rock, transcending genres from metalcore to alternative. ...Malevolence
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Saturday 8 November 2025
Emerging onto the scene in 2013, the Sheffield rockers have proven themselves worthy as the UK's undisputed Kings of Heavy Metal with a depth and diversity that is uncommon in modern metal. Described by Rock Sound as ""the perfect crossover...Focus
The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 11 November 2025
With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus manifested themselves at the start of the '70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. Fronted by founding member Thijs Van Leer, and best known for their ...The Ultimate Classic Rock Show
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Friday 14 November 2025
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...
UK Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Tribute Band
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 15 November 2025
This world-famous tribute band takes you on a journey spanning 25 years of music from the now legendary rockers Foo Fighters and their charismatic leader, Dave Grohl. They absolutely nail the true vibe of a Foos live experience, all perfor...Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 22 November 2025
Scottish power trio Moving Pictures play for over two hours covering all the Rush classics such as Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio and Xanadu (with doubleneck guitars) plus some deeper cuts such as By Tor and later belters such as Far Cry a...Halestorm
