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The Cybertronic Spree is an independent cover band, which primarily covers songs from the Transformers franchise. Self-described as "Rockstars in disguise", they are known for their covers of the soundtrack to the 1986 film in particular, as well as other covers of 1980s metal, and their elaborate costuming.

History
In a 2015 interview with the Toronto Star, the band narrated a fictional history which holds that the 1986 film was a documentary, and that the Transformers fell on hard times after the original TV series concluded in 1987. After some years working in other jobs such as construction, the Transformers reunited.

The band was initially formed to perform live at Nerd Noise Night in 2013.

In 2019, Cybertronic Spree launched a Kickstarter to fund an album which covered the 1986 soundtrack. Against a goal of CA$15,000, the band raised CA$139,000. The group was featured on a variant cover for issue six of the IDW Transformers comic series as a homage.

The group planned a US tour in 2020, but this was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead the group recorded a number of videos together remotely, including a cover of Jump by Van Halen in collaboration with Chris Hornbrook (Poison the Well), Courtney Cox (The Iron Maidens), Stephen Brodsky (Cave In/Mutoid Man) and Gwarsenio Hall.

The group headlined MAGfest 2023.

Studio albums

 * Transformers 1986 (2019)

EPs

 * Darkest Hour (2020)

Singles

 * Deceptifunk (2015)
 * Cybertronic Warrior (2017)
 * Trasformatrici (Piú di Quanto Sembri) (2023)