GUNS N' ROSES Announces 2025 Tour Of Europe And Middle East

GUNS N' ROSES announced they will return to the road on a massive 2025 European and Middle East Tour, headlining stadiums and festivals throughout the summer with special guests PUBLIC ENEMY, RIVAL SONS and SEX PISTOLS featuring Frank Carter on select dates. Kicking off on May 23, the 24-date tour will see the Los Angeles legends perform in Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Lithuania and Luxembourg for the first time. The 2025 dates also see the powerhouse rock band return to familiar stages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Hungary and Austria. For full tour schedule see below.

GUNS N' ROSES will kick off their 2025 world tour in grand style at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a highly anticipated show presented by MDLBEAST. Renowned for revolutionizing Saudi Arabia's entertainment scene, MDLBEAST brings their unmatched expertise to the band's Riyadh debut, promising a groundbreaking musical experience. With a legacy of delivering unforgettable live events, MDLBEAST is set to raise the bar for live music in the region, making this historic performance on May 23, 2025, a night to remember.

Tickets will be available starting Tuesday, December 10 at 9 a.m. local time with the band's Nightrain presale. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on sale beginning Friday, December 13 at 9 a.m. local time on gunsnroses.com.

Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets in Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden and Denmark. Mastercard presale starts Wednesday, December 11 at 9 a.m. local time. Plus, Preferred ticket access to some of the best tickets are available in the U.K. from Friday, December 13 at 9 a.m. local time. Check out priceless.com/music for details.

GUNS N' ROSES 2025 tour dates:

May 23 - Riyadh Kingdom Arena, Saudi Arabia
May 27 - Abu Dhabi Etihad Arena, UAE
May 30 - Shekvetili Parka, Georgia^
Jun. 02 - Istanbul Tüpraş Stadyumu, Turkey^
Jun. 06 - Coimbra Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, Portugal^
Jun. 09 - Barcelona Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Spain
Jun. 12 - Florence Firenze Rocks, Italy*^
Jun. 15 - Hradec Kralove Rock For People, Czech Republic*^
Jun. 18 - Dusseldorf Merkur Spiel-Arena, Germany^
Jun. 20 - Munich Allianz Arena, Germany^
Jun. 23 - Birmingham Villa Park, UK
Jun. 26 - London Wembley Stadium, UK
Jun. 29 - Aarhus Eskelunden, Denmark+
Jul. 02 - Trondheim Granåsen Ski Centre, Norway+
Jul. 04 - Stockholm Strawberry Aren, Sweden+
Jul. 07 - Tampere Ratina Stadium, Finland+
Jul. 10 - Kaunas Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Lithuania+
Jul. 12 - Warsaw PGE Nardowy, Poland+
Jul. 15 - Budapest Puskás Aréna, Hungary+
Jul. 18 - Belgrade Ušće Park, Serbia+
Jul. 21 - Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium, Bulgaria+
Jul. 24 - Vienna Ernst Happel Stadion, Austria#
Jul. 28 - Luxembourg Open Air, Luxembourg#
Jul. 31 - Wacken Festival, Germany*

* Festival appearance
+ with PUBLIC ENEMY
^ with RIVAL SONS
# with SEX PISTOLS featuring Frank Carter

GUNS N' ROSES last performed in November 2023 at the Hell & Heaven festival in Mexico.

The band kicked off the North American leg of its 2023 world tour in August 2023 with two shows in Canada. The trek included a stop at the Power Trip festival in Indio, California where the Axl Rose-fronted outfit performed alongside fellow rock icons METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, TOOL and AC/DC.

During recent appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk", GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan confirmed that he and his bandmates have been working on fresh material. "There's definitely a desire and a plan for new music," he said. "Yeah, for sure."

Addressing the fact that GUNS N' ROSES hasn't performed live since completing a North American tour in November 2023 at the Hell & Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico, Duff said: "You can go on a tour and you can have peaks and valleys on the tour. And we never do. It's always, like, every gig is super special. Even when we extended our tour — after touring for so much, extending it for another four weeks, that can destroy a band. I've seen it happen. That's too long. You went too long. And everybody's starting to snap at each other and the crew and all that stuff. But it doesn't happen with our band or our crew. So we ended on this really highlight, which was Mexico City, this huge gig we did. And we played two nights at the Hollywood Bowl right before that. It was really special. We had THE BLACK KEYS opening at the Hollywood Bowl — a really cool, different sort of show. So I think we ended and were, like, 'Oh, man. Let's not end. Let's get back to this soon.' But I think for me, I know I had to rest — I had to rest my body. A lot of hours on stage. A lot of traveling. And I've gotta listen to my body these days. I've gotta listen. So I had to rest. I think we all need to rest. [GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] Slash, he'll go out and tour, like, four weeks later [with one of his projects] and do it all over again. I'm, like, 'Okay, dude. More power to you. I'm gonna go to Hawaii. I'm going to Hawaii, man.'"

GUNS N' ROSES released a four-song EP, "Hard Skool", in February 2022. The effort, which was exclusive to the GUNS N' ROSES' official store, contained the two new songs the band released in 2021 — the title track and "Absurd" — as well as live versions of "Don't Cry" and "You're Crazy".

The legendary hard rock outfit has not released a full-length effort since 2008's "Chinese Democracy", which included only singer Axl Rose from the band's classic lineup. McKagan and guitarist Slash reunited with Axl in 2016 and have since released several standalone singles — "Absurd" (stylized as "ABSUЯD"),"Hard Skool", "Perhaps" and "The General" — but have not made any announcements about another LP.

This past June, Duff was asked during an appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" if he thinks GUNS N' ROSES will ever release more "newly written music" again as opposed to continuing to rework and put out previously composed songs. The GN'R bassist responded: "Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. There's new material. I don't know how we're gona put it out. I think that's a question too. Like, do you put out a record? Do you just keep putting out singles? I don't know what the right answer is there in this day and age."

If and when it happens, the new GUNS N' ROSES studio album will be the first under the GUNS banner since "Chinese Democracy" and the first to feature Slash, Rose and bassist Duff McKagan since 1993.

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