HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Hard Rock & Metal Concerts in Manchester
Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show
Manchester Academy
Fri 19 Dec 2025 - Sat 28 Mar 2026
Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush
Manchester Academy
Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Fri 10 Apr 2026
Sanctum Sanctorium - The Dark Side Of The 80s
Manchester Academy
Sat 25 Oct 2025 - Fri 27 Feb 2026
A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
The Citadel Theatre
Sat 21 Feb - Sat 22 Aug 2026
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, ...Teen Spirit - 90s Rock Night
The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Friday 17 October 2025
A 90s Rock night with DJs playing: Nirvana + Pearl Jam + Red Hot Chili Peppers + Rage Against The Machine + Guns N' Roses + Foo Fighters + Green Day + Blink 182 + Pixies + Weezer + Oasis + Blur + Faith No More + Radiohead + Offspring + Sub...Sonata Arctica
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 19 October 2025
Heavily influenced by Queen, Finnish power metal band messiahs Sonata Arctica have been many things in their storied career. Relentlessly touring powerhouses, champions of sublime melody, but first and foremost, however, they have been sta...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...The Obsessed
Star and Garter, Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Tapestry Promotions are proud to present:The ObsessedTHE OBSESSED comes roaring back with their most rocking album of all time "Gilded Sorrow", to be released on February 16th, 2024 through independent Californian label Ripple Music. Expand...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...Mother's Cake
Star and Garter, Manchester
Thursday 23 October 2025
Disorder makes Austria's Mother's Cake feel comfortable. Lunacy is their fuel. Psychedelia is their ecstasy. Join them on an edgy journey off the beaten tracks. Six years of constant touring, writing, using - and abusing, made them who t...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...Ultimate Power
Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Why go anywhere else when you can go to a place where everyone has a sole aim: to embrace the greatest power ballads ever written, all night long. The Ultimate Power DJs will take you on a ride through the very best of the genre: from forgo...The Freddie & Queen Experience - Queen & Freddie Mercury Tribute
The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
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...Wailing Banshee w/ support from Neon Oracle
Rebellion, Manchester
Friday 24 October 2025
Wailing Banshee move up a level. Headline show at Rebellion Manchester. Support from Neon Oracle...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
Barbarian Hermit: Exit The Hermitage
The Bread Shed, Manchester
Saturday 25 October 2025
Exit The Hermitage : The Farewell ShowBarbarian Hermit are going on indefinite hiatus, but they're saying goodbye with one hell of a night...DAMMIT 2.0 : A (daytime) Elder Emo event
Postern Gate, Warrington
Saturday 25 October 2025
Warrington We're back And you thought it was just a phase......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
From hard-hitting metal to reggae, rock to pop, dub to electro, nothing's off limits for Welsh ragga rock pioneers Skindred as their heavy, distortion-laden riff punches melt into vocalist Benji Webbe's frenzied rapping. Explosive metal an...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...Asylum's Halloween Special
Postern Gate, Warrington
Friday 31 October 2025
Our biggest & Scariest night of the year in 2025, Asylum invites you to join us in the Upside Down.. finally ON Halloween...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...TURNSTILE
Depot Mayfield, Manchester
Monday 3 November 2025
Proper 90s hardcore mixed with today's melodic hardcore sounds, the Baltimore punk band are charting new ground for hardcore, expanding stylistic boundaries and celebrating new possibilities. With an utopic vision that is fully realised;...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...GAG + Ingrown
Star and Garter, Manchester
Tuesday 4 November 2025
Tapestry Promotions are proud to present:GAG + Ingrownplus support:Plastics...Wednesday 13 (Murderdolls)
