The ESP Guitar Company

May 24, 2017 19:42

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Two things we can say about our friends at ESP Australia: 1) They're damn good musicians and 2) They make great demo videos! Here's our friend Tim Gauci from CMI, ESP's Australian distributor, doing a demo of the LTD TE-200....

ESP NOW: Inside the M/H/MH Series

ESP

May 24, 2017 12:00

Some of the very first guitars ESP ever made were called the Mirage and the Horizon. These guitars were designed to be everything that traditional guitars weren't, with souped-up body styling, high-end components, and...

Rammstein: "Du Hast" (live in Paris)

May 22, 2017 20:14

Rammstein, the German Neue Deutsche Härte band famous for their completely spectacular stage shows, has a new live video out for their classic 1997 song "Du Hast". We can't imagine what it must be like to stand on a stage and...

Abner Borge: "Enkryptos"

May 18, 2017 21:42

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ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Abner Borge is a new member of the ESP Community. In fact, he reached out to us on Facebook to show us his video. We asked him if he had posted it on the ESP site. A short while later, he did,...

Rancid: "Telegraph Avenue"

May 18, 2017 21:05

Rancid, the legendary punk rock band, is about to come out with Trouble Maker, their first new album in three years. In the new video for the instant classic East Bay homage "Telegraph Avenue", you'll see ESP player Lars...

Max Cavalera on his ESP and LTD Signature Guitars

May 17, 2017 21:08

We caught up with Brazilian guitar legend Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy) during a photo shoot by photographer Glen LaFerman, and Max tells us about the newest additions to his Signature Series guitars, the ESP...

ESP NOW: Inside the EC Series

ESP

May 17, 2017 04:00

Did you miss our live stream ESP NOW event from May 2, 2017 on the EC Series? No worries... check it out at your convenience right here! Chris Cannella uses a number of different LTD EC Series and ESP E-II/ESP USA Eclipse...

EC-1000 Piezo Demo from Sweetwater Sound

May 11, 2017 22:39

It was a chilly day when we sent Chris Cannella over to Ft. Wayne, IN, where instrument and audio gear dealer Sweetwater Sound is located, so he could help to show off the exciting new EC-1000 Piezo while trying not to freeze...

Slobodan Stosic: Instrumental with EC-1000

May 11, 2017 17:52

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Here's Slobodan Stosic, who recently joined our community, and is a bit of a mystery man. His ESP community member profile doesn't give us much to go on, and his song doesn't have a title, but...

Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) LTD Volsung: Available Now

May 05, 2017 19:54

Lars Frederiksen may be a legendary punk rocker in Rancid, but he's also a very nice guy who knows with 100% certainty what he wants in a guitar. His first-ever signature guitar model, the LTD Volsung, is now available. The...

Trashgreen: Rocking the ESP V-II FR

May 04, 2017 16:51

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! According to his ESP Community profile, Trashgreen -- a self-described "metal dude" from Denmark -- has a pretty amazing collection of ESPs that includes an Eclipse CTM-1 FR Camo, an E-II T-B7,...

Victor Kalinkin: "Five"

April 27, 2017 23:02

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Okay, we have to admit... we're not sure where Victor is while filming this video. Yeah, it says he's at the great ESP dealer MusicMarket in Tallinn, Estonia, but it kind of looks like heaven...

Stephen Lane Slaps the B-155DX

April 25, 2017 00:53

Our friends Down Under (aka CMI, the ESP distributor for Australia) always send us killer videos that show what can be done on our instruments. In this brief demo, Stephen Lane uses the affordable but great-sounding B-155DX...

Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) Appearance at Guitar Center

April 21, 2017 21:28

On the evening of Wednesday April 19, ESP player Bill Kelliher of Mastodon did a rare meet-and-greet appearance at Guitar Center's flagship Hollywood store on Sunset Boulevard. We stopped by to say hi to Bill (because he just...

Monte Pittman: "Obliterated"

April 21, 2017 20:00

Calling in a little help from his friends, drummer Richard Christy and bassist Billy Sheehan, ESP player Monte Pittman takes out a couple of his ESP Eclipses and rocks the hell out of his song "Obliterated" from his album...

Dan Logoluso: "With Heart"

April 20, 2017 21:12

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Dan Logoluso is a member of the ESP Community and a respected player in his native Milan, Italy. Dan's profile states that he likes rock, melodic metal, and progressive rock, which is pretty...

Tech Corner: Adjusting String Height on a Floyd Rose

April 20, 2017 20:32

When you set up a guitar equipped with a Floyd Rose double-locking bridge system, a number of things can go wrong, and one of them is not understanding how to properly adjust the string height (a.k.a. string action). ESP's VP...

David E.K. (Fuge): "Diode"

April 14, 2017 14:04

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We don't know much about ESP Community Member David E.K., except that he seems to create music under the name Fuge (and you can see their Facebook page here). But we also know that a) he rocks...

Tech Corner: Adjusting Bridge "Float" Angle on a Floyd Rose

April 12, 2017 18:17

In this very detailed Tech Corner video, ESP's VP of product development and highly-experienced guitar tech Todd Binder walks you through the entire process of setting up the "float" angle of a Floyd Rose bridge, including...

TL Series Bass Demo

April 10, 2017 21:06

Our friends at ESP Australia distributor CMI just created this terrific video to show your the sounds and vibes of the LTD TL Series basses, including the new TL-5SM and TL-4Z Fretless. These basses have a ton of excellent...

Billy Connally: "Hyperion"

April 06, 2017 23:38

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! According to his ESP Community profile, Billy Connally is a guitarist living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and owns a number of killer LTDs... an H-1000, a coveted 30th anniversary...

KXM: "Scatterbrain"

March 31, 2017 20:08

"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...

B-1005SE Multi-Scale Demo with Gabe Rosales

March 31, 2017 19:29

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...

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

March 30, 2017 22:42

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...

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

March 28, 2017 22:58

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...

Jon Symons: "Baritone Jam"

March 23, 2017 16:26

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...

Obituary: "Ten Thousand Ways To Die"

March 23, 2017 16:16

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...

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

March 20, 2017 20:36

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...

Davide Rinaldi: "Of War and Men"

March 17, 2017 18:26