KXM: "Scatterbrain"

KXM: "Scatterbrain"

"Scatterbrain" is the title track from the second album by KXM, the metal supertrio consisting of ESP legend George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob) along with dUg Pinnick (King's X) and Ray Luzier (Korn). George is playing an ESP...
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B-1005SE Multi-Scale Demo with Gabe Rosales

B-1005SE Multi-Scale Demo with Gabe Rosales

The first multi-scale bass in the ESP lineup gets a complete and thorough rundown by Gabe Rosales, a widely respected bass player in nearly every genre of music from Latin to rock, jazz, fusion, funk, hip hop, death metal and...
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Home Metal Project: "O.W.M.F.F."

Home Metal Project: "O.W.M.F.F."

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Silvère Escande of France-based Home Metal Project with his James Hetfield LTD Signature Series Snakebyte performing a playthrough of their song "O.W.M.F.F.". We don't know what the...
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Metallica: "Halo On Fire" (Live in São Paulo, March 25, 2017)

Metallica: "Halo On Fire" (Live in São Paulo, March 25, 2017)

Metallica are out on the road and tearing it up at every show. On March 25, the Bay Area metal icons were in São Paulo, Brazil, headlining Lollapalooza. Here's they are with "Halo On Fire" off their latest multi-platinum...
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Jon Symons: "Baritone Jam"

Jon Symons: "Baritone Jam"

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! The thing we like most about Jon's video is that he had just purchased the LTD EC-401B Baritone a few days before creating this song. As guitar and bass players, we all understand how a new...
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Obituary: "Ten Thousand Ways To Die"

Obituary: "Ten Thousand Ways To Die"

Obituary, featuring ESP players Ken Andrews and Terry Butler, are pioneers of the entire death metal genre, having formed back in 1984. Their tenth album, the self-titled Obituary, was just released, and what better way for...
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Sinaro: "The Living Dead" (ft. Andy James)

Sinaro: "The Living Dead" (ft. Andy James)

We love it when ESP artists do music together. In this case, Sinaro, the self-named band of ESP rocker Gus Sinaro, turned to UK-based shred king Andy James to do a solo on Gus's song "The Living Dead". Andy unsurprisingly...
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Davide Rinaldi: "Of War and Men"

Davide Rinaldi: "Of War and Men"

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! This week's spotlight shines on ESP Community Member Davide Rinaldi doing a playthrough of his original song "Of War and Men". According to his ESP member profile, Davide is from Italy, and...
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Live at NAMM 17: Mike Spreitzer (DevilDriver)

Live at NAMM 17: Mike Spreitzer (DevilDriver)

ESP player Mike Spreitzer of DevilDriver stopped by our booth at NAMM 2017 to see what new guitars we had on display, and instead got dragged backstage by ESP artist relations dude Chris Cannella. Note: we did let him check...
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Fabio Spagnoli: "Ethereal" (Andy James cover)

Fabio Spagnoli: "Ethereal" (Andy James cover)

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! According to the ESP site profile of Fabio S., he enjoys metal, instrumental metal, shred, and progressive metal, which probably explains why he's covering the fantastic Andy James! Fabio is...
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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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