Metallica and MADSAKI Launch Second Collection November 14

Metallica's artwork has a new hand on it, and it's a fan's. The band's second collaboration collection with the artist MADSAKI launched on Saturday, November 14, 2026, in limited quantities at the PARADISE store in Tokyo, through the WACKO MARIA online store and on MADSAKI's official website. It's the follow-up to the pair's first run together, four T-shirt designs released in the summer of 2025.

The second collection is wider than the first. T-shirts are back, but the lineup now runs to jackets, sweatshirts, caps, bags, pouches, badges and stickers. That's a full merchandise table rather than a single garment, and it changes what the collaboration is: not a tour shirt with an artist's name attached, but a small clothing line built on the band's imagery.

The artwork method is the point of the exercise. Instead of lifting motifs from existing Metallica art books, the collection uses the band's classic logo and its long-running graphics as a base, with new Metallica artwork drawn by MADSAKI worked into them. The artist's credential for the job is fandom, stated plainly in the announcement: he was captivated by Metallica in real time in 1980s New York and still listens to the band today.

That framing matters because band merchandise usually runs the other way. A famous name licenses its marks, an outside designer applies a treatment, and the result sells on the strength of the logo alone. Here the selling point is the opposite direction of travel — the artist came to the band first, as a listener, and the drawings carry that history. Whether a shopper can see the difference on a sweatshirt is a fair question, but it's the difference the collection is priced on, even though the announcement coverage doesn't publish a price list.

The rollout has a second act. In early December, additional items — long-sleeved T-shirts, sweatshirts and sweatpants — go on sale exclusively through MADSAKI's official website. The split is deliberate: the Tokyo store and WACKO MARIA carry the launch, the artist's own channel carries the follow-up, and each wave is limited in quantity.

The shape of the two collaborations tells its own story. The first, in the summer of 2025, was four T-shirt designs — a test, sized like one. The second is a nine-category lineup with a follow-up wave already scheduled. A partnership that didn't work doesn't expand from four shirts to jackets, bags and a December second drop in sixteen months. Neither side has published sales figures for the first collection, and none are claimed here; the expansion itself is the evidence the first run did what it was supposed to do.

The collection is on sale now, and the December pieces are the last announced part of it. Metallica's imagery has been merchandised for four decades, in every format a band can sell. This version's claim is narrower and more personal than most: the pictures were drawn by someone who never stopped being a fan.