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# Metal and Hard Rock ticket sales are exploding says Live Nation
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/metal-and-hard-rock-ticket-sales-are-exploding-says-live-nation/
- Published: 2025-08-05T16:08:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-05T16:08:09.000Z
- Description: Metal and Hard Rock ticket sales grew significantly over the last year, according to Live Nation. Hard rock concerts are up 15% in 2025.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Hard rock, Live Nation, music, Music Business, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Metal and Hard Rock ticket sales grew significantly over the last year, according to Live Nation. Hard rock concerts are up 15% in 2025.

Metal concerts now make-up 13% of all stadium shows across the U.S.

![Live Nation  hard rock ticket sales and resale](https://www.hypebot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LiveNation.png)

#### What bands and sub-genres are leading metal and hard rock ticket sales?

- Metalcore bands **Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, Falling in Reverse,** and **Sleep Token** are “blowing up” in both streams and arena ticket sales
- Hardcore punks like **Turnstile**
- Goth rock’s **Ghost**
- Legends like **Korn, Deftones, Evanescence, Limp Bizkit, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park**, and I**ron Maiden** are headlining festivals
- **System of a Down** added stadium shows to their tour after selling-out shows in Toronto, Chicago, and East Rutherford, NJ
- **Metallica had** nearly $180 million in ticket sales last year alone
- Hard rock festivals including **Welcome To Rockville, Aftershok** and **Inkcarceration** set attendance records this year  
  - 230,000 attended **Welcome to Rockville** this year

The concert giant also acknowledged Ozzy’s contribution: ”This genre wouldn’t exist without the legends,” Live Nation said. “**Ozzy Osbourne** — the Prince of Darkness — didn’t just front Black Sabbath, he changed music forever. His legacy will live on in every riff.”

### Top 2025 Metal & Hard Rock Tours

Find more info on each artist and tour on Bandsintown.

### **Iron Maiden – *Run For Your Lives World Tour***

- Kicked off on **May 27, 2025** in Budapest; continuing through 2026 across Europe, focusing on their first nine classic albums. Support includes Halestorm, The Raven Age, Avatar

### **Metallica – *M72 World Tour***

- Active throughout 2025 across North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Opening acts in the U.S. include Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies, Limp Bizkit, Ice Nine Kills; the November Oceania leg features Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M72%5FWorld%5FTour?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com).

### **Arch Enemy – *Blood Dynasty* Tour (North America)**

- Ran April 14 – May 18, 2025, with support from Fit for an Autopsy, BAEST, and Thrown into Exile. The tour included stops in major U.S. and Canadian cities and sold‑out shows including Vancouver

### **Deafheaven – North American Tour**

- Promoting *Lonely People With Power*, this leg ran mid‑April through May 2025 across U.S. and Canada with support from Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray. European festival dates in summer follow

### Coming Later in 2025

### **Arch Enemy – European *Blood Dynasty* Tour**

- Scheduled for **October–November 2025**, with support from Amorphis, Eluveitie, and Gatecreeper

### **Judas Priest – *The Shield of Pain Tour***

- Spain date confirmed: Bilbao Arena on **June 23, 2025**, celebrating 50 years of the band and 35 years of *Painkiller*. Tickets went on sale December 23, 2024

### **Metallica – *M72 World Tour* Oceania Leg**

- November 2025 stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand, including Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on **Nov 12**, with Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies supporting

***Bruce Houghton*** *is Founder & Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor and founder of Skyline Artists.*