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

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

Metallica, the iconic band featuring legendary ESP players James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, play live on March 5, 2017 in Mexico City doing "Dream No More" from their new album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct. Kirk is using one...
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Blackfoot: "I Need My Ride"

Blackfoot: "I Need My Ride"

Do you like your Southern Rock with a hard edge on it? Then it's time to enjoy some Blackfoot, featuring ESP-playing members Tim Rossi and Rick Krasowski. In the video for "Need My Ride", we see Tim using his...
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Dimmu Borgir: "Mourning Palace" (Live at Wacken)

Dimmu Borgir: "Mourning Palace" (Live at Wacken)

This April, Dimmu Borgir, the kings of Norwegian symphonic black metal, are going to be releasing a live DVD called Forces of the Northern Night. It's going to include legendary live shows that they recorded in Oslo with the...
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Obituary: "Sentence Day" Playthrough

Obituary: "Sentence Day" Playthrough

Kenny Andrews, lead guitarist of Obituary -- one of the world's most long-running and influential death metal bands -- sits down with his ESP M-II and does a full playthrough of "Sentence Day", a song from their upcoming...
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Melissa Evila (The B.A. Sisters)

Melissa Evila (The B.A. Sisters)

Argentinian multi-instrumentalist and producer Melissa Evila stopped by the ESP offices in North Hollywood to tell us what drew her toward being an ESP player, and to check out the LTD EX-401, which features a set-thru neck...
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Stephen Carpenter on his signature Fishman Fluence Pickups

Stephen Carpenter on his signature Fishman Fluence Pickups

Last year, ESP signature series guitarist Stephen Carpenter of Deftones switched over to Fishman Fluence pickups, and ended up creating his own SRC signature pickup model for the company. Since then, we've added his Fluence...
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LTD EC-1000 PIEZO Demo by Chris Cannella

LTD EC-1000 PIEZO Demo by Chris Cannella

ESP's Chris Cannella takes you through the details of one of the most flexible guitars in the LTD Deluxe Series: the EC-1000 PIEZO. Available in both See Thru Blue and See Thru Black finishes, the EC-1000P features two kinds...
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Nightrage: "The Venomous"

Nightrage: "The Venomous"

Nightrage, the Greek metal band featuring ESP player Marios Iliopoulos, has just debuted the video for "The Venomous" which is the title track for their upcoming album that's set for release on March 31. Marios is well known...
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Live at NAMM 17: Incite Interview

Live at NAMM 17: Incite Interview

Christopher El and Dru "Tang" Rome of Phoenix-based metal band Incite dropped by to hang out with us at the 2017 NAMM Show. While they were there, we asked them about what makes ESP the right choice for their music. ...
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Bill Kelliher on Metal Injection's "A Taste of Metal"

Bill Kelliher on Metal Injection's "A Taste of Metal"

We don't know if you've seen this Metal Injection web series yet, but if you like metal and good food -- and really, what kind of monster doesn't like those things? -- you'd probably be into it. "A Taste of Metal" pairs metal...
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Red Frandany: "I'm Awake" Cover

Red Frandany: "I'm Awake" Cover

We love it when we're cruising around the Internet and we randomly stumble across a great guitar player who also happens to be playing a guitar we made. According to a bio on her Facebook page, Red Frandany is a prog metal...
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Exhibition Series 2017

Exhibition Series 2017

Each year, the luthiers in our ESP Custom Shop in Tokyo are given free reign to create their ultimate fantasy guitars and basses. Each one is a completely unique, hand-made instrument that uses the very best tonewoods,...
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