Guns N’ Roses are hitting the road in 2025

Guns N’ Roses are hitting the road in 2025 – and they’re bringing punk and hip-hop legends with them

Having last played live in 2023, Guns N’ Roses have announced a massive world tour, which will take them through Europe and the Middle East, including a number of countries the band have never played in before.

Accompanying them will be a fascinating array of big names from the worlds of punk, hip-hop, and rock.

The tour's first leg – during which the band will go through Eastern and Central Europe, including Georgia for the first time – will see them accompanied by rockers Rival Sons, while the second European leg will feature Public Enemy and the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter.

Prior to that, the band will perform two shows in the Middle East, including one in Saudi Arabia.

Though the band didn't perform live in 2024, Guns N' Roses' members, Slash in particular, have kept plenty busy.

Slash ventured into new waters with Orgy of the Damned, a blues album that found the top-hatted Les Paul slinger saluting some of his earliest influences with the assistance of his Rolodex (AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, Gary Clark Jr., ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, to name but a few guests).

After the album, though, the guitarist unveiled something even more spectacular.

“After I finished up the [Orgy of the Damned] record, the next thing is always figuring out a tour,” Slash told Guitar World earlier this year.

“My manager told me that a promoter that he was talking to was interested in doing a blues festival and putting something together like that with me. And I just thought it was a great idea. So I jumped at it and started putting together some suggestions for blues artists I thought would be great to have on the bill.”

And so the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. traveling festival, a modern-day Lollapalooza of the blues featuring, at various times, Warren Haynes, Keb’ Mo’, Larkin Poe, Eric Gales, Samantha Fish, and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, was born.

Despite his Guns N' Roses touring commitments, not to mention those he also has with Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, Slash told Guitar World that he wants to hold the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour “annually, or semi-annually.”

For tickets and more info on Guns N' Roses' 2025 tour, visit the band's website.