MESHUGGAH Storms San Diego Comic-Con With Exclusive Signing and Limited-Edition Transformers Collaboration

Metal meets Cybertron at San Diego Comic-Con, and fam, this collaboration is heavy enough to shake the convention floor.

MESHUGGAH members Tomas Haake and Mårten Hagström will appear at the Reigning Phoenix Music and Stern Pinball booth, #4029, on Friday, July 24, at 3:30 p.m. Fans will get the chance to meet the metal legends while checking out an exclusive MESHUGGAH x Hasbro’s Transformers T-shirt.

The limited-edition design celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie and 30 years of MESHUGGAH’s landmark album, Destroy Erase Improve. Its inspiration comes straight from Megatron’s brutal transformation into Galvatron after being defeated, betrayed and rebuilt by Unicron.

“Big machinery. Massive destruction. Reconfiguration. A pretty accurate analogy to our sound, is it not?” Hagström said.

Created by acclaimed Transformers and G.I. JOE artist Ken Christiansen, the artwork fuses Cybertronian destruction with MESHUGGAH’s crushing, constantly evolving sound. Reigning Phoenix Music will also offer SDCC-exclusive splatter vinyl editions of the remastered Destroy Erase Improve and Catch Thirtythree.

Translation? Exclusive merch, rare vinyl and face time with two members of one of metal’s most powerful bands. Booth #4029 is about to get loud.

Event Details:

MESHUGGAH Signing
Friday, July 24
3:30 p.m.
Reigning Phoenix Music/Stern Pinball Booth
Booth #4029
San Diego Comic-Con

Quantities of the collaborative T-shirt and exclusive vinyl variants will be limited and available while supplies last.

Fans attending the signing will have the opportunity to meet Tomas Haake and Mårten Hagström and explore the exclusive merchandise and vinyl offerings available at the booth.

Connect with MESHUGGAH:

• Website: https://www.meshuggah.net/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meshuggah
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meshuggah
• X / Twitter: https://x.com/meshuggah
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meshuggahofficial
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxLbFcGicScOE07gwngd18g
• YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/@meshuggah
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3ggwAqZD3lyT2sbovlmfQY
• Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/meshuggah/17304969
• Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B000QKH3NQ/meshuggah
• Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/2175
• TIDAL: https://tidal.com/artist/3542781
• Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/meshuggah

About MESHUGGAH:

Formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1987, MESHUGGAH have spent more than three decades redefining the outer limits of heavy music. Known for their groundbreaking use of complex polyrhythms, down-tuned guitars, dissonant atmospheres, and surgically precise execution, the band has become one of the most influential forces in extreme and progressive metal.

Across their catalog, MESHUGGAH have continually pushed their sound forward, from the technical thrash foundations of their earliest work to the genre-altering breakthroughs of Destroy Erase Improve, Chaosphere, Nothing, Catch Thirtythree, obZen, and beyond. Their music has had a profound impact on modern metal, inspiring generations of artists and helping shape the rhythmic vocabulary later associated with the djent movement, while remaining unmistakably singular in vision and execution.

Rather than following trends, MESHUGGAH have built an entire language of their own: mechanical yet human, cerebral yet crushing, and as hypnotic as it is devastating. With a reputation for uncompromising innovation and formidable live performances, MESHUGGAH continue to stand as one of the most original, challenging, and revered bands in heavy music.