The ESP Guitar Company

October 26, 2017 22:25

Lars Frederiksen, the punk rock icon who is a member of Rancid as well as The Old Firm Casuals and Oxley's Midnight Runners, takes you through the details of his LTD Signature Series guitar, the Volsung. It features a...

Jose Laney: "The Day That Never Comes" Cover

October 26, 2017 16:41

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! ESP All Access member Jose Laney is apparently a fan of both our guitars and of Metallica, which is a pretty good combination. In this video, Jose plays through multiple parts of...

Anwar T: "Vivaldi's Summer Suite"

October 20, 2017 16:07

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Going back to the glory days of guitar gods like Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhoads, and Yngwie Malmsteen, the fusion of classical music and metal has presented a challenge that many...

Mastodon: "Toe to Toes"

October 12, 2017 20:06

Mastodon had a pretty amazing year in 2017. Not only did they release one of their best-selling and most acclaimed albums of their career with Emperor of Sand in March, but they followed it up in September with the EP Cold...

InVase: "ConTaminant"

October 12, 2017 18:59

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We often get very pleasantly surprised when looking through the huge collection of videos that members of the ESP Community have contributed over the years. This is one of those times. InVase...

In Hearts Wake: "Overthrow"

October 11, 2017 18:20

In Hearts Wake is an Australian metalcore band out of Byron Bay. The band features three ESP players: guitarists Ben Nairne and Eaven Dall, and bass player Kyle Erich. You'll see Ben using his ESP E-II Eclipse, while Eaven...

Tomasz Andrzejewski on the LTD TL-6

October 10, 2017 15:48

Tomasz Andrzejewski is an outstanding ESP player from Poland who plays tasty riffs and fast, fluid solos on just about any kind of music he takes on. In this clip, Tomasz uses an LTD "Thinline" TL-6, a guitar that provides...

The Royal: "Thunder" (Playthrough)

October 06, 2017 21:20

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Hailing from the Netherlands, The Royal is a melodic metalcore band featuring ESP players JD Liefting and Pim Wesselink. In this playthrough video for their song "Thunder", you'll see the dual guitar team using their...

Rhodieftw: "Petrucci Style" (Andy James cover)

October 05, 2017 21:14

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ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We like the fact that in this week's ESP Community Spotlight, member Rhodieftw is doing a cover of another ESP artist (Andy James) who is playing in the style of yet another guitarist... Dream...

Andrew W.K.'s ESP Custom Taco Guitar

October 04, 2017 14:05

Andrew W.K. knows how to party hard, but he's pretty serious about high-quality instruments, which is why he turned to the ESP Custom Shop to create his own Taco Guitar, which is being appropriately unveiled on October 4,...

Limited-Edition ESP & LTD Kirk Hammett KH Ouija Natural

October 01, 2017 12:57

Introducing the KH Ouija Natural, a new limited-edition guitar in the Kirk Hammett Signature Series. Only 25 of the ESP version and 666 of the LTD version are being made available worldwide. Quilted maple top, Ouija graphics,...

Carlos Arzola: "Glasgow Kiss" (cover)

September 29, 2017 16:10

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! According to his member profile, Carlos M. Arzola owns an LTD H-1007 FR, but in this well-performed cover of John Petrucci's "Glasgow Kiss", Carlos turns to an older model of ours: one of our...

Riffi Raffi (Hevisaurus) Rocks ESP

September 25, 2017 16:33

If you're a kid in Finland, you already know about Hevisaurus. Considering they've sold over 200,000 records, perhaps some more of us should consider getting into dinosaur costumes to bring our music to the masses! The origin...

Amon Amarth: "Guardians of Asgaard"

September 22, 2017 16:18

Amon Amarth, the Swedish melodic death metal band featuring ESP player Johan Söderberg, performs their song "Guardians of Asgaard" at the 2017 Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival. The studio version of the song was released on...

Dan Logoluso: "Erotomania" (cover)

September 22, 2017 01:36

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This is our second spotlight on ESP community member Dan Logoluso, who a respected player in his native Milan, Italy and a member of Italian prog-metal band Timesword. We just like what he does...

Alberto Rigoni Grooves on an LTD B-208

September 15, 2017 18:46

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! A new member of the ESP Community, Alberto reached out to us a short while ago on Facebook to see if we could share his video of a groove he was laying down on his 8-string LTD B-208 bass. We...

The Black Dahlia Murder: "Nightbringers"

September 08, 2017 22:06

Featuring ESP artist Brian Eschbach (along with a blistering solo by ESP player Brandon Ellis), The Black Dahlia Murder has debuted the video for the title track off their upcoming album Nightbringers, which you can pre-order...

ESP E-II HRF NT-8B Demo by ISAO

September 06, 2017 17:07

In this video from our friends at ESP Japan, internationally respected guitarist ISAO (Spark7, Trimurti, Cube-Ray) performs the Trimurti song "Hell" on the ESP E-II HRF NT-8B. If you're looking for extremes, few other guitars...

Septicflesh: "Portrait of a Headless Man"

September 06, 2017 00:17

Septicflesh, the influential Greek extreme metal band that's been pushing the boundaries of music since 1990, have just released their new album Codex Omega, featuring the song "Portrait of a Headless Man" shown here....

Yul Moreau: Metallica '80s Tone

September 01, 2017 16:43

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! As guitar players, all of us are in search of the right tone, whatever that means to each of us. Tone is one of the most subjective things in life, which is exactly why ESP offers a wide...

Rancid: "Ghost of a Chance" (Live on Conan)

August 31, 2017 22:43

How long does a song need to be? If you're as tight-as-hell band like Rancid, you can say everything you need to say -- and include a Lars Frederiksen guitar solo -- in under a minute and a half. Here's the legendary punk...

Lynch Mob: "Mr. Jekyll and Hyde"

August 31, 2017 01:31

The mighty guru of guitar, George Lynch, is back in a big way with the forthcoming album The Brotherhood from his band Lynch Mob. Featuring the lineup of George along with Oni Logan, Sean McNabb, and Jimmy D'Anda, things get...

Luís Kalil: "The Chase" (Live)

August 28, 2017 18:31

Guitar phenom Luís Kalil became one of the youngest ESP endorsees ever when we added him to our roster at age 15. A few years later, this young Brazilian guitar shredder keeps blowing people away with his fluid, precise...

Taithur: "Disrupting the Tomb of Memory"

August 25, 2017 22:46

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's proof that a killer guitar is always within range of your budget. ESP Community member Taithur takes his LTD EC-10 (that he seems to have modded with active pickups), and unleashes some...

The Old Firm Casuals: "Never Say Die"

August 23, 2017 22:23

Led by ESP-playing frontman Lars Frederiksen (perhaps better known as a member of Rancid), The Old Firm Casuals are a street punk/Oi! band from San Francisco, CA. In this video, they do their song "Never Say Die" which has...

Gary Holt GH-600 Demo by Silas Fernandes

August 23, 2017 16:05

Brazilian-born guitar shredder Silas Fernandes takes the LTD GH-600 Gary Holt Signature Series guitar for a ride, and puts the pedal to the metal! The GH-600 (also available in a non-tremolo version with the GH-600NT) is the...

Max Georgiev: "Far Beyond the Sun" (Cover)

August 22, 2017 17:52

Multi-instrumentalist and educator Max Georgiev is part of an extremely small group of musicians who are known and respected in more than one musical genre. In addition to his experience as the touring guitarist and/or...

MH-1000 EverTune Demo by Jack Fliegler

August 22, 2017 17:38

Jack Fliegler of Arizona-based progressive metal band Singularity takes the LTD Deluxe MH-1000 EverTune out for a test drive, and tells you about what makes it cool. This set-thru guitar features the innovative EverTune...

Nightrage: "In Abhorrence" Tutorial

August 21, 2017 19:26