The ESP Guitar Company

Sludgy metallers Lord Dying, featuring ESP players Erick Olsen and Joel Grind, starts their tour this Friday (August 19) in Portland, OR, and will spend the following five weeks or so rampaging across the USA. They've teamed up with MetalSucks to offer prizes that include pairs of tickets to each place they're playing, and a grand prize of an LTD V-50 guitar. Visit the MetalSucks site here to enter.  Do it right now; the contest ends today!

The V-50 is an excellent guitar for any musician who wants the aggressive look and vibe of a V Series guitar at a price that pretty much anyone can afford. It offers a comfortable basswood body, a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and 24 extra-jumbo frets, and two ESP Designed LH-150 pickups.

Lord Dying's tour dates are below; visit their web site for the latest info.

8/19 – Portland, OR @ The Panic Room
8/20 – Seattle, WA @ Highline
8/21 – Spokane, WA @ The Pin!
8/22 – Boise, ID @ The Shredder
8/23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Bar
8/24 – Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater
8/25 – Omaha, NE @ Lookout Lounge
8/26 – Full Terror Assault Open Air @ Hogrock Campgrounds
8/27 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
8/28 – Lakewood, OH @ The Foundry
8/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Smiling Moose
8/31 – Rochester, NY @ Bugjar
9/1 – Albany, NY @ Trickshots
9/2 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
9/3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar
9/4 – Washington DC @ The Pinch
9/5 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
9/6 – Chesapeake, VA @ Riffhouse Pub
9/7 – Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
9/8 – Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
9/9 – Orlando, FL @ The Haven
9/10 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
9/11 – Miami, FL @ Churchill
9/12 – Jacksonville, FL @ 1904
9/13 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
9/15 – New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
9/16 – Houston, TX @ Walters
9/17 – Austin, TX @ Dirty Dog Bar
9/18 – Fort Worth, TX @ Tomcats West
9/20 – Lubbock, TX @ Depot Obar Live
9/21 – El Paso, TX @ Mesa Music Hall
9/22 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock
9/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ White Oak Music
9/24 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Dive Bar
9/26 – Bakersfield, CA @ Jerry’s
9/27 – San Francisco, CA @ The DNA Lounge
9/28 – Bend, OR @ 3rd Street Pub
9/29 – Eugene, OR @ Old Nick’s Pub