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Starting on Thursday October 10 and remaining at full volume through Sunday October 10, the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA was everything people were hoping for with the return of rock and metal to the live stage. ESP...

What are your plans for Halloween? If you're not already committed to dressing up like a ghoul and trying to scam free candy from your neighbors, here's something else you might considering doing. Behemoth, the iconic...

Due to be released on November 19 via Nuclear Blast Records, Persona Non Grata, the new album by Bay Area thrash metal legends Exodus, is one of the most highly-anticipated heavy music albums still to come in 2021. To help...

Our friends at Premier Guitar magazine always do a thorough job with their product reviews. When we heard from them a number of months ago about an upcoming review on the LTD AP-204 bass, we were very happy about the...

ESP extends our congratulations to Brian Lopez, who is the Fall 2021 recipient of the ESP Rock Guitar Scholarship at Musicians Institute. Brian seems like the ideal person to get this scholarship, which includes both tuition...

Do you like metal? No? Okay, go read something else. Oh, you're still here? Then that must mean you're someone who needs to learn more about the ENGL Powerball II, because this is a pure, uncompromising, all-tube amp made...

From September 23-27, ESP was at the Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, KY, and visitors got a face full of ESP at every turn! From the ESP All Access Zone, where people checked out special and rare guitar models, to...

The famed Berklee College of Music has set up a crowdfunding page for a bass scholarship that commemorates a musician near and dear to us at ESP: Francis Rocco Prestia, the legendary bass player from Tower of Power. Rocco was...

If you're heading to one of the big upcoming rock/metal music festivals -- Louder Than Life (September 23-26, Louisville, KY), Aftershock (October 7-10, Sacramento, CA), or Welcome to Rockville (November 11-14, Daytona Beach,...

Who wouldn't want Ritchie Blackmore's tone?

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You might be the winner!

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There are so many reasons why combo amps are a great choice for many musicians that we couldn't list them all here if we tried. What it boils down to is convenience. Your amp rig can be carried out to your car and into the...

You may not know that ESP already offers more variety in guitar models available for left-handed players than most other manufacturers. You can see all of our currently-available left-handed models using our Guitar and Bass...

ESP players come from all over the world in all shapes and sizes, and all age ranges as well. We are very happy for David Ormsby of Salisbury, UK, who, out of tens of thousands of entrants, was randomly chosen as the winner...

This is an amp that proves that sometimes more is more.

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This coming Friday January 2, you'll get a preview of over 100 guitars and basses that we'll be debuting in 2015. What can you expect? Read more to get some clues!

UPDATE 01/02/15: PREVIEW IS LIVE!

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Rest in peace, our wonderful friend.

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Being unveiled at Summer NAMM, only 300 of the limited-edition LTD "Ride the Lightning" guitars are being made for the world to commemorate Metallica's iconic second album.

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Three days of ESP intensity to kick off the new year. Here we come!

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