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...

Here's Joel Pastuszak, guitarist for Boston-based hardcore band Vanna, using his LTD TE Series guitar on a playthrough of "Pretty Grim", a song from their upcoming LP All Hell, which comes out in July. Let us know what you...

ESP player Cole Rolland is a guitarist and producer from Canada. Using his popular YouTube channel, Cole does both solo work and collaborations with other artists on both original and cover tunes. "Equinox" is Cole's first...

For years, guitarists have asked our advice on the proper way to restring a guitar equipped with a Floyd Rose locking tremolo. In this detailed Tech Corner video, ESP's vice-president of product development and chief tech...

Guess who's back? It's the only group that includes four ESP endorsees with Signature Series models: Whitechapel, which includes guitarists Alex Wade (and his LTD AW-7B), Ben Savage (and his LTD BS-7B), and Zach Householder...

Here's "Aggressive", the title track from Beartooth's upcoming new album. The band, which hails from Columbus, OH, includes ESP player Kam Bradbury, who uses LTD EC and ESP Eclipse models to crank out his precise metalcore...