Darren Stroud: "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The USA is heading into a holiday weekend for Independence Day, so what better choice for our weekly All Access Spotlight than to show member Darren Stroud and his LTD Gary Holt...
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Nick Ruffilo (Bad Omens): "Never Know" Playthrough with the LTD GB-4
ESP artist Nick Ruffilo, bass player for Richmond, VA-based metalcore band Bad Omens, does a playthrough of their song "Never Know" using an LTD GB-4 bass in Vintage White finish. The GB-4 is completely unique among the LTD...
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George Lynch: "Death By a Thousand Licks"
If you haven't heard the news yet, on August 20, 2021, the legendary master of shred guitar George Lynch is going to be releasing a solo album called Seamless. "Death By a Thousand Licks" is the first track we've heard, and...
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LTD Deluxe SN-1 HT Live Performance Demo by Cameron Stucky, ft. ENGL Amps
Outstanding guitarist Cameron Stucky does a live performance demo of the LTD Deluxe SN-1 HT, part of our "New for 2021" collection. This guitar comes in a textured sandblasted finish where the wood grain is exposed, looking...
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Antoine I: "Dedicated" (playthrough)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Doing a very precise two guitar and bass playthrough cover of Parkway Drive's song "Dedicated", All Access member Antoine Ignace uses three ESP models -- an LTD MH Series, LTD H...
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Fred Leclercq (Kreator) Interview
UK-based ESP artist and brand ambassador Jamie Hunt caught up with bass player extraordinaire Frédéric Leclercq of Kreator in August for this interview at the 2021 Bloodstock Festival. Fred has been part of the ESP artist...
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Sandra Pagola: "I'm Not Right" (cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! What's the most important thing we're looking for when we choose our weekly ESP All Access spotlights? That's easy... it's the sound of the guitars we make, and as she's done many...
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E-II Eclipse-7 EverTune Live Performance Demo by Kazuki Tokaji
Virtuoso guitar player Kazuki Tokaji performs this live demo using the ESP E-II Eclipse-7 EverTune. This is a 7-string guitar that features the EverTune constant tension bridge, as well as a set of Seymour Duncan Sentient and...
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LTD Sammy Duet Signature Series SD-2 Demo by JongHa Jeong
Shred master JongHa Jeong of South Korean-based death metal band Fecundation does this live performance demo of the LTD Sammy Duet Signature Series SD-2. The SD-2 is the signature guitar of Sammy Duet, founder of legendary...
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ESP All Access Community Interview: Darren Stroud (PowerTribe)
Interviewed for our "ESP Presents 2022 - Phase 1" event in January 2022, Darren Stroud is a member of the ESP All Access community, and frequently posts videos on the ESP web site using his LTD guitars. We'll be doing more...
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Dark Funeral: "Let the Devil In"
Here's Dark Funeral, the influential black metal band founded in Sweden in 1993, with their video for "Let the Devil In", a song from their upcoming album We Are The Apocalypse which is scheduled for release on March 18,...
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Christian Czar Calunia: Rocking the E-II Eclipse BB
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This is the first time we've heard the music of All Access member Christian Czar Calunia, but hopefully it won't be the last. This guitarist from the Philippines is using his ESP...
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uNburst: "Through Struggle" (playthrough cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Today's spotlight comes from a relatively new member of our All Access community, uNburst. We don't know much about him (fill in your profiles, people!), but he's sounding good and...
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George B: "Keep Playin'"
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's community member George B and his ESP USA M-III FR doing an original jam that's a purposeful homage to the late, great Eddie Van Halen. As you can see via his guitar...
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Aeon Slate: "Danger Grounds" playthrough
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's community member Aeon Slate doing a playthrough of his band Dear Shadow's song "Danger Grounds" using his LTD Deluxe EC-1000 in See Thru Black Cherry. This guitar features a...
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Konst Fischer: Soloing on the Ben Weinman BW-1 EverTune
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Last year, community member Konst Fischer, who is both an audio mix engineer and an excellent guitarist, got asked to do a guest solo for the German thrash band Exxperior on...
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Henri Vuorenmaa & Jenni: "Waking the Demon" (cover)
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Today's All Access spotlight shines on Helsinki, Finland-based community member Henri Vuorenmaa, who teamed up with fellow guitarist Jenni on this guitar cover of "Waking the Demon"...
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LTD EX Black Metal Demo by David Sanchez (Havok)
David Sanchez, the founder and frontman of thrash metal band Havok, is here to demo the LTD EX Black Metal. This guitar features set-thru construction at 24.75" scale, 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets, a TonePros locking...
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Bleed from Within: "God Complex"
Here's Scottish metal band Bleed from Within and the music video for their song "God Complex," featuring ESP shred lord and founding member Craig "Goonzi" Gowans on lead guitar. Craig is ripping it up on his LTD Deluxe M-1001...
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LTD EC-1000/EC-1007 EverTune Demo
Cameron Stucky of Redwood City, CA-based metal band Crepuscle shreds it up, and then talks in detail about the advantages he finds in using our guitars that are equipped with the EverTune constant tension bridge system,...
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Frank Bello (Anthrax) Talks to Loudwire
Frank Bello, the bass playing madman from Anthrax, sat down with Loudwire's Squiggy to talk about his bass heroes (Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler, and Steve Harris), to play a few riffs from Rush and Maiden, and to talk about his...
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Nergal (Behemoth) Unboxes the LTD Nergal-6
Adam "Nergal" Darski, the frontman and founder of globally-acclaimed metal band Behemoth, unboxes his own most recent LTD Signature Series guitar, the Nergal-6, and talks about some of the thoughts that went into its design....
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InVase Rocks his MH-1000NT
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! As we've done a couple of times before, we're featuring a submission by All Access community member Ian Shuirr, who creates music as InVase. The reason is pretty clear from the...
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Happy Holidays from Stephanie Bradley & ESP
From the ESP family to everyone around the world, here's wishing you the happiest of holidays and an excellent new year! Shred queen Stephanie Bradley sends her holiday greetings with this heavy version of "Carol of the...
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Behind the Scenes: Jamie Hunt and Pat Heath do Demos
For the two days following the 2019 NAMM Show, two of our finest ESP players, UK-based Jamie Hunt and Pat Heath, stayed around at our North Hollywood, CA headquarters to shoot some demo videos for several of our "New for...
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Emigrate: "You Are So Beautiful"
ESP signature artist Richard Z. Kruspe -- perhaps best known as the guitarist and founding member of German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein -- takes on a softer, more writerly tone with his alternative band Emigrate. Their...
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LTD Deluxe SN-1000HT Demo by Cameron Stucky
The LTD Deluxe SN-1000HT is based on the traditional look of ESP’s Snapper guitar shape, and offers a dual-humbucker design with a high-quality Seymour Duncan Sentient/Pegasus pickups set and a Hipshot hardtail bridge with...
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Chase Fraser (Continuum) on the LTD Deluxe M-1007 Multi-Scale
Chase Fraser of California-based progressive death metal band Continuum does a playthrough of his band's song "Designed Obsolescence" using an LTD Deluxe M-1007 Multi-Scale. The song is the title track off the band's latest...
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Marcel S: Brutal Death Metal with LTD KS-7
ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Do you ever find it challenging to name a new instrumental song? We do. Obviously, songs that have things like lyrics make it much easier... you choose a chunk of the chorus, you...
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Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index) on the LTD EX-401
Mark Kloeppel of Maryland-based death metal band Misery Index talks about his reasons for choosing ESP and LTD guitars... specifically, the aggressive EX shape that looks as brutal as it sounds. You also get some details on...
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