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HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER

Quinta Jazz

Spring Bank Arts Centre, New Mills
Friday 21 February 2025
With a wide repertoire, ranging from Clifford Brown to the contemporary sounds of Kenny Wheeler and the early 60s funk of Wes Montgomery, incorporating music from South Africa and original compositions. Quinta have been regulars at the Crea...

You Me At Six

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 29 March 2025
Rising out of the British alternative underground, Surrey rockers You Me At Six released their debut full-length album Take Off Your Colours in 2008 through Slam Dunk Records and Epitaph Records. Celebrating early chart success, it was 2010...

Kvelertak

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 23 February 2025
The Norwegian rock and metal band Kvelertak (translates to 'stranglehold' and is pronounced «Kuh-vell-er-taaaak») entered 2019 with bigger riffs and an even heavier sound. With Ivar Nikolaisen fronting the rejuvenated Kvelertak, the band ...

Uriah Heep

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 25 February 2025
  British rock icons, Uriah Heep, bid farewell after 55 years. Uriah Heep's longevity is a testament to the band's excellent music, prolific song-writing and tireless efforts. The mighty Heep are cut from the same cloth of legends; their c...

Paleface Swiss

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 28 February 2025
Switzerland's finest metal band. The guys from Zurich have destroyed everything that wasn't nailed down. Whether it was their last US tour as direct support for The Ghost Inside or the nearly sold-out tour with West Coast outfit Lionheart...

Paleface Swiss

New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 28 February 2025
Switzerland's finest metal band. The guys from Zurich have destroyed everything that wasn't nailed down. Whether it was their last US tour as direct support for The Ghost Inside or the nearly sold-out tour with West Coast outfit Lionheart...

Burn - A Tribute to Deep Purple

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 28 February 2025
BURN - Deep Purple Tribute present over 2 hours of searing rock and roll from one of the greatest rock bands of the seventies. You can expect all the classics - Highway Star, Fireball, Space Truckin', Woman from Tokyo - but also MkIII class...

Street Soldier

Rebellion, Manchester
Friday 28 February 2025
Tapestry Promotions are proud to present:Street Soldier...

UKSF Presents: Crepitation - Farewell Thee Butters

Aatma, Manchester
Friday 28 February 2025
Butters is leaving Crepitation and this will be his final northern show with the band...

Opeth

Albert Hall, Manchester
Saturday 1 March 2025
Sweden's visionaries of Opeth have come a long way within the past 3 decades and evolved from raw death metal to virtuousic progressive vintage rock. Always following their own path, the band forged 13 albums, each being a new milestone wit...

Suffocation

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 2 March 2025
From the bleeding speed guitars, the intense waves of sound and spine curdling vocals, the pioneering New York gods of death metal set the standard for those who prefer their rock n roll on the dark side.  ...

Zakk Sabbath - Zakk Wylde's All-Star Black Sabbath Cover Band

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 4 March 2025
The all-star Black Sabbath cover band from Zakk Wylde, best known as the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and as the founder, lead guitarist, lead singer, and songwriter of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. The current Zakk Sabbath ...

Biohazard + Life of Agony

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Celebrating their 35th anniversary as a band, Brooklyn based hardcore metal legends Biohazard have returned, reuniting their original lineup of Billy Graziadel, Bobby Hambel, Danny Schuler and Evan Seinfeld. Biohazard pioneered a genre, wi...

Self Deception

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Stockholm rockers Self Deception are known for their dynamic sound that combines classic rock elements with a fresh, anthemic modern metal flair. The band has released two studio albums, with chart hits such as "Fight Fire With Gasoline" an...

Heaven Can Wait - A Tribute to the Music of Meat Loaf

Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Thursday 6 March 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...

Vukovi

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 8 March 2025
Scottish rock outfit Vukovi demand your attention with songs taking in themes of individuality, drug abuse, depression and suicide.  ...

The Wildhearts

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Sunday 9 March 2025
For 3 decades The Wildhearts have remained at the forefront of the British rock scene. From their classic debut album 'Earth Vs' (voted number one album of the year in Kerrang! back in 1993, and number 20 in the best rock albums of all time...

Animals As Leaders

Albert Hall, Manchester
Friday 14 March 2025
When unknown virtuoso guitarist Tosin Abasi released his debut solo album under the moniker ANIMALS AS LEADERS in 2009, few would have predicted the now ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed, genre defying instrumental Washington D.C. trio'...

Descendents + Circle Jerks

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 14 March 2025
A co-headline gig from Californian surf-punk rockers Descendents and Circle Jerks, who have been cited as an influence to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, the Offspring, NOFX, and Pennywise. ...

Flash - A tribute to Queen

The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Friday 14 March 2025
Celebrate the musical legacy of Freddie Mercury and Queen with hit after hit, anthem after anthem performed live with identical instruments and in authentic costumes on a huge stage set with visuals and effects to bring back that grandeur a...

Limp Bizkit

AO Arena, Manchester
Saturday 15 March 2025
Led by inimitable musician, actor and filmmaker Fred Durst, the multi platinum-selling band Limp Bizkit are widely credited with giving birth to nu metal by merging rap and hardcore rock. Formed in 1994 and hailing from Jacksonville, Florid...

AC/DC UK - AC/DC Tribute

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 15 March 2025
AC/DC, one of the world's leading tributes AC/DC found their first incarnation well over a decade ago. Since then, the band have established themselves as one of the globe's forerunners in the tribute scene, being invited to play many inter...

Knocked Loose

O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Kentucky metalcore band Knocked Loose open up the pit with a brutal sound that falls between hardcore, punk, and metal, even incorporating elements of death metal, going from strength to strength with fans among their peers.  ...

The Temperance Movement

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Thursday 20 March 2025
The Temperance Movement are one of Britain's finest blues rock bands, bearing echoes of the great rock 'n' roll icons of the '60s and '70s like The Faces and Led Zeppelin, Free and The Rolling Stones. Formed in London but with a Glaswegian...

Miracle of Sound

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Friday 21 March 2025
Cork indie musician Gavin Dunne, better known by the name of his music project "Miracle of Sound", performs music inspired by video games, films, and TV shows. While not widely known in his home country of Ireland, his music is very popular...

Limehouse Lizzy - The Greatest Hits of Thin Lizzy

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Friday 21 March 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 Darkness

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Saturday 22 March 2025
Delivering immeasurable rock and roll extravagance, Lowestoft's favourite rock icons (consisting of brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins, and Queen legend Roger Taylor's equally brilliant drumming son Rufus Tiger Taylor) first shot to fame in 20...

cleopatrick

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 22 March 2025
Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, po...

Esprit D'Air

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 23 March 2025
The London-based Japanese electronicore, gothic metal, power metal, and industrial metal rock band became a solo project for guitarist Kai in 2016 and have since enjoyed chart success in the UK and scooped the Independent Music Award's 'Be...

Mother's Cake

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 24 March 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...

Bloodywood

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Bloodywood is a metal band from New Delhi, India. ...

Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show

The Met, Bury
Friday 28 March 2025
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...

Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons

Rebellion, Manchester
Friday 28 March 2025
A hard-hitting, old-school rock outfit led by Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell, Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons were formed after the death of Motorhead frontman Lemmy in 2015. Following the inevitable disbandment of Motorhead, Cam...

Bilmuri (Attack Attack!)

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Saturday 29 March 2025
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! ...

South of Salem

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Wednesday 2 April 2025
South Of Salem is a hard rock/metal band from Bournemouth. ...

Skunk Anansie

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 4 April 2025
With an unparalleled influence, the iconic multi-racial Platinum-selling British Hard Rock band Skunk Anansie, fronted by female vocalist Skin, are famed for their incendiary live sets over the years, during a career that was kickstarted w...

Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush

The Met, Bury
Friday 4 April 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...

Lordi

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 5 April 2025
Although Rock/Heavy Metal monsters LORDI were founded in 1992 by lead singer, songwriter, and designer Mr. Lordi, it wasn't until 2006 that they celebrated their international breakthrough by winning the Eurovision Song Contest ("Hard Rock ...

Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 5 April 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...

BRIDEAR

The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Sunday 6 April 2025
Formed in Fukuoka, Japan, every member of BRIDEAR contribute as songwriters to their meticulously arranged hard rock as well as catchy and glamorously melodic speed metal. ...
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