Tengger Cavalry: "Cian Bi (Fight Your Darkness)"

Tengger Cavalry: "Cian Bi (Fight Your Darkness)"

You're probably thinking to yourself, "Self, I need to get some more nomadic folk metal into my life." Well, your search for musical inspiration is over, because Tengger Cavalry, the New York-based band of ESP-playing...
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Hail Sagan: "Doors Will Open"

Hail Sagan: "Doors Will Open"

Hail Sagan, the LA-based hard rock band featuring vocalist Sagan Amery and ESP player Nick Quijano (who you may recall as "Sci55ors" from Powerman 5000), has a new song and a new video to go with it. Enjoy "Doors Will Open",...
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Stephen Carpenter on the LTD SC-20

Stephen Carpenter on the LTD SC-20

It was 20 years ago, in 1998, that Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter got his first Signature Series guitar from us. Since then, thousands of guitarists have been influenced by Stef's texture-based sonic experiments and...
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Ken Susi plays Stephen Carpenter (Deftones)

Ken Susi plays Stephen Carpenter (Deftones)

We had a challenge for Ken Susi, guitarist and clean vocalist of Boston-based metalcore band Unearth. Bringing him into ESP headquarters, we tasked Ken with emulating the tones and playing styles of a number of other ESP...
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Dan Capeau: "Northpole Throwdown" (Cover)

Dan Capeau: "Northpole Throwdown" (Cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Guitarist Dan Capeau, who contributes to the ESP All Access community as Necrofreak13, is using his Alexi Laiho Signature Series LTD Alexi-600 Blacky appropriately to do a...
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Sydney Ellen: "Comfortably Numb" solo

Sydney Ellen: "Comfortably Numb" solo

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Community member Sydney Ellen takes on a classic solo from Pink Floyd's The Wall by the iconic David Gilmour, and does a magnificent job of it using her ESP Eclipse in Silver Sparkle...
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Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) on the SCT-607B Green Sparkle

Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) on the SCT-607B Green Sparkle

"Feeling good is an incredible thing that you should want to do if you're not doing already." Stephen Carpenter of Deftones always has many words of wisdom when he drops by ESP headquarters. On this day, he shows off the new...
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Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) on the SC-608B Red Sparkle

Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) on the SC-608B Red Sparkle

Innovative ESP player Stephen Carpenter (Deftones) tells you why you should check out his latest LTD Signature Series guitar, the SC-608B in Red Sparkle finish. It's an eight-string baritone with Fishman Fluence pickups, and...
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Eligio Tapia: "Shattered Sanctum"

Eligio Tapia: "Shattered Sanctum"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's community member Eligio Tapia, a resident of the Bay Area here in California that has been the location of many great metal bands. He's doing a playthrough of "Shattered...
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Ken Susi Plays Mille Petrozza (Kreator)

Ken Susi Plays Mille Petrozza (Kreator)

We had a challenge for Ken Susi, guitarist and clean vocalist of Boston-based metalcore band Unearth. Bringing him into ESP headquarters, we tasked Ken with emulating the tones and playing styles of a number of other ESP...
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Jason Charles Miller: "Riverbank" with the TL Series

Jason Charles Miller: "Riverbank" with the TL Series

Singer-songwriter Jason Charles Miller and his band popped by the ESP offices, and pulled out some of our LTD "Thinline" TL Series guitars and basses for this feisty live version of his song "Riverbank". The TL Series offers...
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Lucas Kocka: "The Line" (cover)

Lucas Kocka: "The Line" (cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! All Access member Lucas Kocka joined our community back in 2013, and he does a good job on this guitar playthrough of "The Line" off Foo Fighters latest album Concrete and Gold....
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Sinaro: "Break The Paradigm"

Sinaro: "Break The Paradigm"

Brazil-born, New York-based guitarist Gus Sinaro and his namesake band are ripping it up on their song "Break the Paradigm". Gus is playing his rare LTD MH-2015, a limited-edition guitar we made to celebrate ESP's 40th...
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Corrosion of Conformity: "Wolf Named Crow"

Corrosion of Conformity: "Wolf Named Crow"

Here's a welcome sound for your ears... new music from Corrosion of Conformity, with the return of Pepper Keenan on vocals! The band, which was founded in 1982 in Raleigh, NC, will be releasing their eleventh studio album No...
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Leaves' Eyes: "Sign Of The Dragonhead"

Leaves' Eyes: "Sign Of The Dragonhead"

Here's the title track from the upcoming album Sign Of The Dragonhead by German-Norwegian symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes, featuring ESP players Thorsten Bauer and Pete Streit playing their respective ESP E-II Eclipse and M...
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Doug Aldrich on his ESP Custom

Doug Aldrich on his ESP Custom

Doug Aldrich, guitarist for the Dead Daisies, sent out this video recently to show off what makes his latest guitar from the ESP Custom Shop so awesome. The ESP Custom Shop is where serious musicians turn when they need a...
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Jeff Hickey (Norma Jean): "Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda" Playthrough

Jeff Hickey (Norma Jean): "Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda" Playthrough

ESP artist Jeff Hickey of Norma Jean, the metalcore band out of Georgia, does a guitar playthrough of his band's song "Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda" off their 2016 album Polar Similar. Jeff is using his killer...
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Raff Sangiorgio: "Rebirth"

Raff Sangiorgio: "Rebirth"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Shred master Raff Sangiorgio is probably not your typical member of the ESP All Access community. He is already widely respected and well known, especially among the technical metal...
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Ken Susi plays Brian "Head" Welch (Korn)

Ken Susi plays Brian "Head" Welch (Korn)

We had a challenge for Ken Susi, guitarist and clean vocalist of Boston-based metalcore band Unearth. Bringing him into ESP headquarters, we tasked Ken with emulating the tones and playing styles of a number of other ESP...
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Poyo: "Am I Savage?" (cover)

Poyo: "Am I Savage?" (cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's community member Poyo, using his LTD James Hetfield Iron Cross to do a guitar cover of Metallica's "Am I Savage?" off their latest album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. Poyo...
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Ian Crewe: "C'est La Vie" (cover)

Ian Crewe: "C'est La Vie" (cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Ian Crewe posted this playthrough video of himself using his LTD MH-1000NT for this cover of Protest the Hero's song "C'est La Vie", the opening track off their 2011 album...
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ESP Kicks Ass at 2017 Ozzfest meets Knotfest

ESP Kicks Ass at 2017 Ozzfest meets Knotfest

No matter where you looked at Ozzfest meets Knotfest held on November 4/5 2017, ESP was in your face. From the stages, where over 28 players in more than 18 bands proudly rocked their ESPs, ESP E-IIs, and LTDs for the crowds,...
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Devangelic: "Plagued By Obscurity" (Playthrough)

Devangelic: "Plagued By Obscurity" (Playthrough)

Italian ESP endorsee Mario Di Giambattista of Devangelic just sent over this playthrough video of his band's diabolically heavy tune "Plagued By Obscurity". Mario is playing on his own ESP Custom Shop guitar, a beautifully...
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Ken Susi plays Will Adler (Lamb of God)

Ken Susi plays Will Adler (Lamb of God)

We had a challenge for Ken Susi, guitarist and clean vocalist of Boston-based metalcore band Unearth. Bringing him into ESP headquarters, we tasked Ken with emulating the tones and playing styles of a number of other ESP...
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Paul Barath: "Reckoning"

Paul Barath: "Reckoning"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Finally, we get to feature a lefty in our weekly spotlight of ESP players around the world. It's about time! Paul Barath lives in Budapest, Hungary, and per his ESP All Access member...
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Luís Kalil: "Boulevard"

Luís Kalil: "Boulevard"

Brazilian-born guitar shredder Luís Kalil was only 15 when he became one of the youngest endorsed artists in ESP history. This prodigy is getting ready to release a new EP later this month called Boulevard, and here's the...
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Metallica: "Dream No More" (Live in Antwerp)

Metallica: "Dream No More" (Live in Antwerp)

Performing live in Antwerp, Belgium on November 3, 2017, Metallica pulls out "Dream No More" one of the heavier songs among many from last year's excellent Hardwired... to Self-Destruct album. James Hetfield is using one of...
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Jbonn97: "Freya" (cover)

Jbonn97: "Freya" (cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Check out ESP All Access member Jbonn97 and his LTD EC-256 doing a guitar cover of some sweet stoner metal by The Sword. According to his member profile, Jbonn97 (aka Jake) is a...
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Reba Meyers (Code Orange): Drumception

Reba Meyers (Code Orange): Drumception

The people over at Gear Gods come up with great ideas. Working with Toontrack, the folks who make Superior Drummer 3 drum programming software, they had Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren compose an original song on drums alone,...
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$100 Rebate on Fishman Fluence Models

$100 Rebate on Fishman Fluence Models

Buy an ESP, ESP E-II, or LTD guitar equipped with Fishman Fluence pickups in November or December 2017, and get a $100 rebate straight from us. Details here....
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