{"id":406376,"date":"2026-07-21T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:18:53","slug":"meshuggah-team-with-transformers-for-new-san-diego-comic-con-shirt-announce-exclusive-sdcc-vinyl-pressings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406376\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshuggah Team With Transformers For New San Diego Comic-Con Shirt, Announce Exclusive SDCC Vinyl Pressings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Influential Swedish metal extremists Meshuggah have announced a new collaboration with the Transformers property. That unlikely union between the band and the long-running toy, cartoon, film, etc. franchise has been announced as part of the ongoing 40th anniversary festivities centered around the animated 1986 feature film, \u2018The Transformers: The Movie\u2018. That milestone has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2026\/05\/19\/news\/sebastian-bach-death-angel-exhumed-gruesome-etc-members-involved-in-new-version-of-the-transformers-the-movie-soundtrack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a metal\/hard rock version of the film\u2019s soundtrack<\/a> being lined up for a release this Friday, July 24th.<\/p>\n<p>This new shirt, which riffs nf Meshuggah\u2018s 1995 sophomore album \u201cDestroy Erase Improve\u201c, will be available at the Reigning Phoenix Music\/Stern Pinball booth, #4029 at this week\u2019s \u2018San Diego Comic-Con\u2018. Meshuggah\u2018s drummer Tomas Haake and guitarist M\u00e5rten Hagstr\u00f6m will both be on hand at the booth this Friday, July 24th, at 03:30pm, to partake in a signing event for fans.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Christiansen, an artist noted for his work with \u2018Transformers\u2018 and \u2018G.I. Joe\u2018, oversaw this crossover, commenting: \u201cTwo of my favorite things are \u2018Transformers\u2018 and metal music, when the chance came up to combine the two, how could I pass that up? And to do it for a killer band like Meshuggah, can\u2019t get much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagstr\u00f6m added, \u201cBig machinery. Massive destruction. Reconfiguration. A pretty accurate analogy to our sound, is it not?\u201d This past April saw a newly remastered 30th pressing of \u201cDestroy Erase Improve\u201d and a newly remastered 20th anniversary pressing of Meshuggah\u2018s fifth album \u201cCatch Thirtythree\u201d issued in conjunction with Record Store Day. Both of those sonically overhauled records will now be arriving digitally this Friday, July 24th, alongside CD and additional vinyl pressings.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, a new splatter vinyl pressing of each of those records will be available exclusively at the aforementioned booth this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influential Swedish metal extremists Meshuggah have announced a new collaboration with the Transformers property. That unlikely union between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[162908,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-406376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-meshuggah","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}