The ESP Guitar Company

Held at San Manuel Amphitheater on September 24/25, the 2016 Ozzfest meets Knotfest festival was chock full of ESP players, including members of Whitechapel, Kataklysm, Suicide Silence, Anthrax, Motionless In White, Huntress,...

Zoltán "Zoli" Farkas of Ektomorf worked with the ESP Custom Shop to create this one-of-a-kind guitar... an 8-string, neck-thru-body guitar based on the SV body style, with a custom finish that Zoli himself designed. He's...

Here's Francesco Fareri doing a playthrough from the title track of his new solo album Universal Collision that comes out later this month. This Italian ESP player never fails to impress with his fluid, melodic, innovative,...

Hailing from New Jersey, 40 Below Summer is a metal band that includes three ESP players: guitarists Joey D'Amico and David Mondragon, and bass player Derrick Klybish. Here's their recent video for "Snake Charmer", where you...

ESP player Luís Kalil is one of the youngest people to ever have received an endorsement from our company; this prodigious young man become part of the ESP family at age 13. Still just 16 years old, he shows a degree of...

ESP rocker Bill Hudson, who's been a hired gun for recording and touring with many rock and metal bands including Savatage and Trans-Siberia Orchestra, does a playthrough of a song he co-created with Westfield Massacre: "Time...

Properly adjusting your guitar's intonation can have a drastic effect on how well it stays in tune on every point of the fingerboard. In this video from the continuing "Tech Corner" series, ESP's vice-president of product...

On Saturday August 20, Metallica became the first rock band to perform at the brand new U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and it's no surprise that they completely tore up the venue with the killer new song "Hardwired" off...

Here's something that you don't see every day... or ever, really. Put together by Australian TV "Guitar Gods and Masterpieces" host Hack Wanger, "Don't You Tell Me Not To Play Guitar" is a massive international charity effort...

This past weekend, the 2016 Vans Warped Tour wrapped up its final show after a hugely successful festival tour over the summer. It reminded us another Vans Warped Tour, long ago. Okay, it was actually just last year from...

On July 15-17, ESP headed out to the great city of Chicago, IL (Bridgeview, really, but close enough) to be part of the Chicago Open Air festival. As has been the case at many festivals for the past few years, we were part of...

We sent ESP's artist relations/marketing representative Tony Rauser down to San Diego last week to see what was happening at Comic-Con 2016. The poor guy was forced to go see a sold-out Slayer show at House of Blues, and then...

Revocation, the Boston, MA-based death metal band featuring ESP player Dan Gargiulo, has just released their new album Great Is Our Sin. The band will be touring all over the USA in August, and then moving on to Europe for...