Frank Bello and his band Anthrax are revving up the engines to start a tour next month as a supporting act for Slayer's final tour, along with Lamb of God, Testament and Napalm Death. Many of the players in these respected...

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...

St. Patrick's Day was last weekend, but that won't stop us from posting this clip of ESP player Stephanie Bradley (who works with our pals at Gator Cases) and her killer green LTD Elite Horizon-3 (currently available as the...

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...

Bill Hudson is a busy, working musician, performing and recording in bands like Trans-Siberia Orchestra, Nightrage, Jon Olivia's Pain, and others. Hanging out with us at the 2017 NAMM Show, Bill tells us about his choice of...

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...

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...

Guitarist and frontman Steffen Kummerer of Obscura, who joined the ESP artist family earlier this year, does a playthrough of the band's song "Ode to the Sun" from their 2016 album Akroasis, using his ESP E-II Horizon-7 FR....

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,...