ESP Players Give Tribute to Metallica

ESP Players Give Tribute to Metallica

While a number of ESP players rank among the most influential musicians on the planet, few compare to the vast, wide-reaching impact that James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica have had. In this video that was partially...
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Róbert Császár: "Retrograde" (Cover)

Róbert Császár: "Retrograde" (Cover)

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Pulling out his LTD TE Series guitar, ESP Community Member Róbert Császár does a fine job with a guitar cover of "Retrograde" by Canadian band Silverstein. More importantly, Róbert shows that...
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Henri Vuorenmaa: "My Curse" Cover

Henri Vuorenmaa: "My Curse" Cover

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Henri V. has been a member of the ESP Community since 2015, but there's a mystery in this great guitar cover of Killswitch Engage's "My Curse" that he posted here on the ESP site. While Henri...
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Jay Wud: "Shine Your Light"

Jay Wud: "Shine Your Light"

Based in Dubai, UAE, Jay Wud is the band and the name of its ESP-playing frontman. In this new video for "Shine Your Light", Jay is completely shredding on his ESP E-II Eclipse. The band was founded in 2010 and is gaining...
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Shattered Sun: "Burn It Down"

Shattered Sun: "Burn It Down"

Shattered Sun is a metal band out of Alice, TX that features three ESP players: guitarists Daniel Trejo and Jessie Santos, and bass player Joseph Guajardo. You can see them all rocking their respective ESPs in the video...
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Korn: "Black Is The Soul"

Korn: "Black Is The Soul"

Korn, the widely popular nu-metal/alt-metal band featuring ESP player Brian "Head" Welch, just released a video for "Black Is the Soul" from their most recent album The Serenity of Suffering. You can see Brian playing an LTD...
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Grant Burns: "Deliverance Bane"

Grant Burns: "Deliverance Bane"

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! According to Grant Burns's ESP Community profile page, he's listed some pretty impressive influences to his guitar playing, like Brett Garsed, Andy James, Guthrie Govan, and Alex Skolnick....
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ESP E-II: The New Standard

ESP E-II: The New Standard

In 2014, ESP took its series of guitars and basses that were previously called "ESP Standard" and offered them under a new name: ESP E-II. It was at that point that we also stepped up our already-great level of quality and...
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Niclas Karlsson: H-1007 Metal

Niclas Karlsson: H-1007 Metal

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! We dug a little deeper into the massive archive of videos uploaded to the ESP site by our community members, and ran across this beauty of an unnamed song by ESP member Fierce_Swe F. from 2014....
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Aitor Epas on his EC-1000VB

Aitor Epas on his EC-1000VB

ESP COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! Aitor Epas of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain has been an ESP Community member since 2014, and is the proud owner of an LTD EC-1000 Vintage Black and an ESP SV Standard. Aitor seems to have created...
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LTD TE-200 Demo by Tim Gauci

LTD TE-200 Demo by Tim Gauci

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....
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ESP NOW: Inside the M/H/MH Series

ESP NOW: Inside the M/H/MH Series

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...
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Rammstein: "Du Hast" (live in Paris)

Rammstein: "Du Hast" (live in Paris)

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...
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Abner Borge: "Enkryptos"

Abner Borge: "Enkryptos"

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,...
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Rancid: "Telegraph Avenue"

Rancid: "Telegraph Avenue"

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...
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Max Cavalera on his ESP and LTD Signature Guitars

Max Cavalera on his ESP and LTD Signature Guitars

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...
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ESP NOW: Inside the EC Series

ESP NOW: Inside the EC Series

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...
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EC-1000 Piezo Demo from Sweetwater Sound

EC-1000 Piezo Demo from Sweetwater Sound

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...
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Slobodan Stosic: Instrumental with EC-1000

Slobodan Stosic: Instrumental with EC-1000

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...
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Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) LTD Volsung: Available Now

Lars Frederiksen (Rancid) LTD Volsung: Available Now

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...
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Trashgreen: Rocking the ESP V-II FR

Trashgreen: Rocking the ESP V-II FR

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,...
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Victor Kalinkin: "Five"

Victor Kalinkin: "Five"

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...
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Stephen Lane Slaps the B-155DX

Stephen Lane Slaps the B-155DX

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...
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Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) Appearance at Guitar Center

Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) Appearance at Guitar Center

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...
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Monte Pittman: "Obliterated"

Monte Pittman: "Obliterated"

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...
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Dan Logoluso: "With Heart"

Dan Logoluso: "With Heart"

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...
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Tech Corner: Adjusting String Height on a Floyd Rose

Tech Corner: Adjusting String Height on a Floyd Rose

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

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

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

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

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...
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