Westfield Massacre: "Famine"

Westfield Massacre: "Famine"

Featuring ESP guitar players Stephen Brewer and Luís Kalil, and ESP bass player Erik Tisinger, Westfield Massacre is a Los Angeles-based metal band who will soon be releasing their second album. They've just put out the video...
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Andres Castro: "17th Century Chicken Pickin'"

Andres Castro: "17th Century Chicken Pickin'"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We never know what we're going to find when, each week, we go through the videos that have been uploaded to the ESP site by our All Access community members. Sometimes it's hard to...
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Eric "Erock" Calderone on the Traveler Guitar EC-1

Eric "Erock" Calderone on the Traveler Guitar EC-1

We’ve teamed up with the innovators at Traveler Guitar to offer this perfect solution for ESP players who need a super-compact guitar for road trips, to keep at the office, or just to have handy anytime you need to rock, as...
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Stephanie Bradley on the LTD TL-6 and M-200FM

Stephanie Bradley on the LTD TL-6 and M-200FM

In this video, guitarist Stephanie Bradley proves once again that a great player can work with guitars within just about any budget and still make them sound excellent. She created this original composition using a chambered...
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Andertons Music Tries Out E-II (w/Chappers & The Captain)

Andertons Music Tries Out E-II (w/Chappers & The Captain)

Andertons is one of the UK's largest and most respected music stores, and was recently named by NAMM at the 2018 Summer NAMM Show as the #1 dealer in the world. In this video, Lee Anderton (aka "The Captain") and Rob Chapman...
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Crepuscle: "In All its Majesty"

Crepuscle: "In All its Majesty"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! There is a wide range of musicians who are members of the ESP All Access community. Some are typical guitar and bass players who make music for fun and to express their creative...
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SN-200FR Demo by Chris Cooper

SN-200FR Demo by Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper is a guitar player who runs a YouTube channel he calls "Blue Collar Shred", since his gear is more in line with the types of guitars, amps, and effects that typical people can afford and use. He created this...
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Al Threats on the LTD TL-4Z Fretless Bass

Al Threats on the LTD TL-4Z Fretless Bass

Al Threats has been a respected bass player for decades, with a list of credits that includes musical legends in pop, R&B, and hip hop such as Mary Wells, Staple Singers, The Chi-lites, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, and...
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Carlos M. Arzola Solos on the H-1007FR

Carlos M. Arzola Solos on the H-1007FR

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Carlos M. Arzola has been featured before in our ESP All Access spotlight, and we're featuring him again. Why? Because he's good! We enjoyed this solo due to the way that Carlos...
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Zao's Scott Mellinger on Premier Guitar Rig Rundown

Zao's Scott Mellinger on Premier Guitar Rig Rundown

Our pals at Premier Guitar Magazine just did another of their excellent Rig Rundown web articles, this time focusing on the guys in veteran West Virginia-based metalcore band Zao. The band has been around since 1993, and...
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Win This KH-602 Purple Sparkle Signed by Kirk Hammett

Win This KH-602 Purple Sparkle Signed by Kirk Hammett

Metallica's Kirk Hammett signs the headstock and case of the new LTD KH-602 Purple Sparkle, a guitar that a lucky winner will call his or her own. ENTER NOW!...
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Zach Johnson (The Ghost Inside) on the E-II Eclipse BB

Zach Johnson (The Ghost Inside) on the E-II Eclipse BB

It was November 2015 when the lives of Los Angeles-based metalcore band The Ghost Inside all changed forever. Traveling to a show in Arizona, their tour bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer, resulting in the deaths of...
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Loudwire Talks to Reba Meyers (Code Orange)

Loudwire Talks to Reba Meyers (Code Orange)

Our friends at Loudwire recently caught up with one of the most badass women in the world of metal and hardcore: Reba Meyers of Pittsburgh-based band Code Orange. Squiggy DiGiacomo talks to Reba about some of her early punk...
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Jon Symons: "The New Brutal"

Jon Symons: "The New Brutal"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We've featured the playing of ESP All Access community member Jon S. before, and the reasons are pretty obvious: this guy knows how to get great tones, has super tight rhythms, and...
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Chop & Shred with Chef Brian Tsao and Ben Weinman

Chop & Shred with Chef Brian Tsao and Ben Weinman

The Music Zoo is a terrific ESP dealer in New York, and we're loving this new series of "Chop & Shred" videos they're producing along with Chef Brian Tsao, who you may already know from his "Taste of Metal" series. If...
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Immolation: "When the Jackals Come"

Immolation: "When the Jackals Come"

Immolation, the hugely influential death metal band out of Yonkers, NY, has just put out this excellent video that lives up to the extraordinary brutal song "When the Jackals Come". The track is off their 2017 album Atonement...
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InVase: "As A Point Of Reference"

InVase: "As A Point Of Reference"

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This is the second time we've featured a submission by All Access community member Ian Shuirr, who creates music as InVase. We always enjoy hearing a player who pushes beyond the...
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James Hetfield (Metallica) Discusses His Guitars

James Hetfield (Metallica) Discusses His Guitars

In this recent video released by the Metallica team, James Hetfield talks about the guitars he’s owned, from the first instrument his mom bought him (that he traded in for a PA) through his love for non-traditional guitar...
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Thomas Youngblood (Kamelot) on Gear Masters

Thomas Youngblood (Kamelot) on Gear Masters

The folks at Digital Tour Bus just did this excellent "Gear Masters" episode on ESP artist Thomas Youngblood of acclaimed power metal band Kamelot. In it, his guitar tech Mark shows off Thomas's collection of ESP Eclipses,...
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Gergo Hajer: "Everything Ends" (Cover)

Gergo Hajer: "Everything Ends" (Cover)

ESP ALL ACCESS COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! In addition to being a member of ESP All Access, Gergő Hájer is part of the ESP artist family as a Hungarian groove metal king along with the band he founded, Omega Diatribe. But...
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The Night Flight Orchestra: "This Time"

The Night Flight Orchestra: "This Time"

We have to admit... we're oddly obsessed with this song and video by The Night Flight Orchestra, a classic hard rock band from Sweden comprised of members of Soilwork, Arch Enemy, and other more metal-focused bands. Featuring...
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