HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
HARD ROCK & METAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Hard Rock & Metal Concerts in Manchester
Fri 4 Apr - Sat 22 Nov 2025
Sat 26 Apr - Sat 6 Sep 2025
Don't Stop Believin’
Friday 30 May 2025
Jump aboard this midnight train for a crazy, crazy night as the boys and girls are back in town! So, walk this way and join us as we take you back to the edge of seventeen for the ultimate rock party show! It's the night out you have been ...
The Ultimate Classic Rock Show
Saturday 31 May 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...
Power Ballads - Anthems That Touch the Soul
Saturday 31 May 2025
From the producers of UK Pink Floyd Experience, the final countdown is on - Power Ballads brings the greatest rock anthems of all time to stages across the UK with big hair, big voices and big fun. Stadium rock lives again with state-of-the...
AC/DC UK + Dizzy Lizzy - AC/DC & Thin Lizzy Tributes
Saturday 31 May 2025
A tribute to two classic rock giants. AC/DC UK are Europe's most explosive tribute to AC/DC and have established themselves as one of the globe's forerunners in the tribute scene, not only emulating the genuine article at their most succes...
Eric Martin (Mr Big)
Sunday 1 June 2025
Now unplugged and unleashed, New York rocker Eric Martin earned his most prominent success as the frontman for the hard rock band Mr. Big, which scored a big hit in the early 1990s with "To Be with You", a song that Martin wrote during his ...
Danny Bowes (Thunder) - Maximum Chat
Thursday 5 June 2025
Thunder frontman and Planet Rock radio presenter Danny Bowes presents his highly anticipated one-man show, Maximum Chat. The tour marks a significant return to the stage for Bowes, following his recovery from a life-threatening accident in...
Sabbotage - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
Friday 6 June 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...
DEKAYTAH
Saturday 7 June 2025
Hailing from the North West of England, Manchester-based Dekaytah are a hard hitting, electrifying heavy metal band that are starting to make their mark on the UK metal scene. With their inspirations from the likes of Slipknot, Gojira, Lam...
Outbreak Fest
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 June 2025
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...
Nine Inch Nails
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Pulling the harsh sounds of industrial rock into the mainstream, Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails became the face of industrial music in the '90s with "Head Like a Hole," "Closer," and "Hurt" becoming hits worldwide and their alb...
SatchVai Band - Joe Satriani & Steve Vai
Thursday 19 June 2025
Guitar legends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai announce they are touring together for the very first time in the same band, the SatchVai Band. ...
Iron Maiden
Sunday 22 June 2025
One of the most influential and successful bands in history, with over 200 million sales, the legendary East London heavy metal heroes return. With a career spanning over four decades, Bruce Dickinson and the boys are best known for th...
Hardy
Sunday 29 June 2025
Mississippi country metal singer-songwriter Michael Hardy has made his mark as "a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive" (American Songwriter). A juggernaut artist-writer whose influence has already...
King Diamond
Monday 30 June 2025
With an incomparable stage presence and theatrical production, influential Danish heavy proto-power-metal act King Diamond returns with a blistering metal 'horror-opera" concept that draws from themes from the occult and both his personal ...
GEL
Thursday 17 July 2025
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Rock For Heroes - The Ultimate Rock Anthems
Friday 25 July 2025
Classic rock anthems, incredible musicians, sensational vocalists and a Rocktacular experience; with a lot of laughs thrown in! All the ingredients that make up the phenomenal, 'Rock for Heroes'! Performed by a superb 7-piece band, the sh...
Guns 2 Roses - Tribute to Guns n' Roses
Saturday 26 July 2025
Guns 2 Roses the UK's longest running Guns N Roses tribute have existed since late 2002 and in 11 years have become biggest GNR tribute in history. Some tributes tried but not one has and will come close to the authenticity, charisma and hu...
A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
Saturday 2 August 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 ...
Firevolt Rock Festival
Thursday 7 August 2025
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. 2024's headliners include Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons +...
Kerry King (Slayer)
Tuesday 12 August 2025
The legendary co-lead guitarist and songwriter of thrash metal band Slayer, Kerry King, embarked on a new chapter after the band's final show in 2019, with his debut solo album From Hell I Rise, released in May 2024. Featuring 13 powerful t...
PELICAN
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Pink Dot Presents?PELICANAges 18+It?s been a long journey for Pelican?from their sludgy reductionist beginnings in the DIY spaces of Chicago, through their tenure as forerunners to the burgeoning international community of artists fusing po...
Forbidden
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Tapestry Promotions are proud to present:Forbidden...
Festwich Tribute Festival
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. ...
The Bon Jovi Experience
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...
Poison The Well
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...
earthtone9
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
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...
Hits Out Of Hell - The Meat Loaf Songbook
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.
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...
The Freddie & Queen Experience - Queen & Freddie Mercury Tribute
Saturday 27 September 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...
Angels of Darkness - A Tribute to The World of Goth
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)
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
Wednesday 1 October 2025
California's own hardcore-metal outfit Atreyu return, exceeding all expectations and expanding the boundaries of metallic rock yet again. ...
Wishbone Ash
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...
Led-Into-Zeppelin - Tribute to Led Zeppelin
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...
Parkway Drive
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
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...
UK Slam Fest 2025
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
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...
Bury Tomorrow
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, ...
Battle Beast
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
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...
