Metallica and MADSAKI Put Hand-Drawn Logos on Jackets and Tees, Out November 14 in Tokyo

By J. Fresh·Nov 10, 2026, 7:05 AM ET·WACKO MARIA

Key details

Collection: METALLICA x MADSAKI, the second release
Pieces: Nine tees, two sweatshirts, a coach jacket, a varsity jacket, caps, totes, a pouch, badges and stickers
Prices: ¥1,980 to ¥30,800
Release: Saturday, November 14, 2026; WACKO MARIA online from 12pm JST
Pop-up: PARADISE TOKYO, Meguro, November 14 to 29, 12pm to 8pm

The Japanese artist MADSAKI has made a second collection of Metallica clothing, and this one goes well past T-shirts. WACKO MARIA announced it on Monday, November 9: a pop-up at PARADISE TOKYO, WACKO MARIA's flagship in Higashiyama, Meguro, from Saturday, November 14 to Sunday, November 29, open 12pm to 8pm. The collection goes on sale the same Saturday in limited numbers at the pop-up, on MADSAKI's own site and on WACKO MARIA's online store, which opens at 12pm Japan time (10pm ET on Friday) and ships worldwide.

MADSAKI's own post sets out the history. The first round, in summer 2025, was four T-shirts. This one adds jackets, sweatshirts, caps, bags, a pouch, badges and stickers. WACKO MARIA's list runs to 20 items. Nine tees at ¥8,580 each, two crewneck sweatshirts at ¥18,700, a nylon coach jacket at ¥25,300 and a nylon varsity jacket at ¥30,800. Then the small things: two caps at ¥3,300, two totes at ¥7,150, a cassette pouch at ¥5,500, a badge set at ¥2,200 and a sticker pack at ¥1,980.

The graphics are the point. Mastered reports that MADSAKI, who calls himself a Metallica obsessive, drew everything new, based on the band's classic logo and long-loved graphics, rather than reusing motifs from its art books. You can see it on the varsity jacket and the grey Logo Em All sweatshirt: fourteen versions of the Metallica logo, each redrawn by hand and dated, from 1983 to 2023. The Snake coach jacket and sweatshirt put a wobbly coiled snake under the logo, and the white Met and Justice tee redraws the rope-bound statue of justice and its scales, dated 1988, the year of ...And Justice for All. The Members Today tee, in white or green, writes out James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo in looping script. Each product photo carries a line saying Metallica is used under license to Probity Europe Ltd.

The back of a white T-shirt printed with a black ink drawing of a rope-bound statue holding scales spilling banknotes, with "1988" and the words "Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone" in green, and "METALLICA" in green brush lettering below

The pop-up opens with a release party at PARADISE TOKYO on Friday, November 13, from 7pm to 9pm, with Kunichi Nomura on the decks and free entry. WACKO MARIA says it plans live drawing and a display of four guitars MADSAKI made himself. Mastered adds that more new pieces are due on MADSAKI's site in early December.

The back of a dark green T-shirt with "Metallica" in bright green looping script above the names James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo in beige handwriting

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Band merch is usually the logo, the album cover and the tour dates, licensed out and printed on whatever blank is cheapest. This goes the other way: a painter whose style is a loose, scrawled line takes the most rigid logo in metal, all those sharp lightning-bolt letters, and redraws it until it looks like a fan's notebook. That's why it works, and why it sits at WACKO MARIA, the Tokyo label that has built a business on that kind of crossover, rather than at a merch stand. MADSAKI also made pieces with SAINT Mxxxxxx in October. Metallica's Instagram hadn't posted the collection as of Tuesday. The band has just closed its 2026 run at Sphere in Las Vegas and says it's back there at the end of January. Prices are WACKO MARIA's, in yen. Nobody has said how many of each piece there are.