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...

Limited to only 300 guitars made available worldwide, the LTD KH-Nosferatu is a limited-edition Graphic Series guitar that combines two of Kirk Hammett's passions: classic horror and killer guitars! With a graphic finish...

We don't know much about Brazilian bass player Marcos Fischer, but we know mind-blowing bass chops when we hear them. He contacted us to let us know how much he enjoyed his LTD bass, and we decided you all might enjoy his...

Bill Kelliher of Mastodon is the newest member of the ESP artist family. Bill tells us some of the thoughts behind the design of his new LTD Signature Series guitar, the BK-600, which will be available later this year....

Hail Sagan is a new Los Angeles-based band that features ESP player Nick Quijano of Powerman 5000 along with singer Sagan Amery. The video for "Dark Cloud" is certainly disturbing, but it tackles harsh topics including...

Our ESP-playing friends in Italy have been throwing down the guantlet lately with some kick-ass guitar shredding. Here's guitarist Raff Sangiorgio in the studio doing a playthrough of his song "Quick Trigger" off his album...

Barry Sparks has quite the resume, having played bass with such notables as Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Shenker, UFO, Dokken, Ted Nugent, and others. Currently the touring bassist for Japanese rock group B'z, Barry has an ESP...

Italian ESP player Gianluca Ferro gets out an ESP E-II HRF NT-8B 8-string baritone for his song "A Djinns Illusion" from his band Breath Of Nibiru. Like all E-II models (formerly known as "ESP Standard"), the HRF NT-8B is...