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“I couldn’t be more excited about what’s ahead”: ESP appoints new US CEO – as outgoing head retires after 39 years

Todd Binder has been appointed as the firm's new CEO

Guitar World

Itzulia Basque Country: Paul Seixas stuns again with victory in the mountains on stage 2 to create huge GC lead

19-year-old Frenchman is in total control of this race

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'Killer Jonas destroyed everybody' – Jonas Vingegaard doubles up with victory on stage 5 at Paris-Nice

Visma-Lease a Bike rider grows race lead to more than three minutes

Cycling Weekly

“Among our best in history”: ESP remembers Alexi Liaho and Jeff Hanneman as Slaughter to Prevail’s Jack Simmons gets his first signature in new 2026 lineup

There are also new signatures for Mick Thomson, Stephen Carpenter, and George Lynch, while LTD celebrates its 30th anniversary

Guitar World

“Experience what happens when 50 years of pickup expertise meets modern active technology”: Seymour Duncan goes toe-to-toe with Fishman with its triple-voiced MortalCoil active pickups

Offering three distinct voices in one package and promising fast, dynamic response and long battery life, these might be SD’s most modern pickups yet

Guitar World

“James Hetfield picked up the phone saying, ‘Have you tried an ESP?’” ESP unveils Joe Duplantier’s eagerly awaited signature guitar in time for NAMM 2026

The Gojira juggernaut has been awarded his first ESP signature guitar, the LTD JD-1, 18 months after he made the switch from Charvel

Guitar World

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Picnic-PostNL men's and women's WorldTour licence initially limited to single year as full list of 2026-2028 WT teams released

Roland not among the registered teams, Lotto-Intermarché fusion formally confirmed, NSN also admitted to men's WorldTour

Cycling News

“I don’t know what that is – but it is an awesome guitar and I love it to bits”: Bleed From Within’s Craig ‘Goonzi’ Gowans and Steven Jones on the high-performance shred machines behind their heavyweight metalcore sound

Backstage at this summer's Tons Of Rock festival, the Scottish high-gain stalwarts explained what they needed from their Caparison and ESP/LTD S-styles, and pondered the use of the whammy bar

MusicRadar

“ESP asked me to pyrograph James Hetfield’s Explorer. I wasn’t sure who James was, but I said yes”: Meet Dino Muradian, the pyrographer who makes a living burning artwork into stars’ guitars

Defecting from his home country by flying himself over the border, the Romanian pilot wound up making guitar art for Metallica, B.B. King and the ESP Custom Shop

Guitar World

“It’s a silly kid’s drawing, but I sent it to ESP, and we did a deal”: URNE’s Angus Neyra on the schoolboy scribble that got him an endorsement, getting Troy Sanders to guest on their 9-minute single, and why he needed a “brother” guitarist

The shred-era guitarist has become a Quad Cortex advocate ahead of joining Orange Goblin’s farewell tour and releasing changed-up new album Setting Fire to the Sky

Guitar World

“It’s crazy that White Pony was 25 years old this year, even crazier that one of our fans owns one of the ESPs used to record it”: Stephen Carpenter’s ESP Horizon Custom from Deftones’ Back to School video has been valued at $55,000

The S-style – which was used on Around the Fur – has been verified by Carpenter himself

Guitar World

“Hetfield personally hooked me up with them back in the day. I’m not cheating on anyone. I want all the instruments!” Gojira’s Joe Duplantier explains how he started playing ESP guitars – and why he’s still playing Charvels

The Gojira guitarist stunned gearheads with his custom ESP at last year's Paris Olympics opening ceremony – now, he's explaining his relationship with the guitar brand

Guitar World

“Well-spec'd and looking like it could do serious damage on the battlefield, this guitar is as muscular as Rammstein’s live shows”: ESP LTD RZK-III OW review

Rammstein’s riffer-in-chief Richard ZK returns with his third signature guitar, marking a departure from its predecessors with an arsenal of fun features

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“Listening to Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert… all kinds of crazy-fast players. And you tried to keep up with them”: Andy La Rocque on why he is no longer a 120mph soloist – and what we can expect from the long-awaited King Diamond album

La Rocque has been the King's six-string courtier for 40 years now. Here he tells us how it all began, how his style has evolved, and yes, the new stuff is coming...

Guitar World

“We were trying to make the best guitar that ever happened in world history”: ESP’s latest Richard ZK ESP and LTD signature guitars are heavy rock riff machines of the highest order

The Rammstein riffer rigorously road-tested his LTD RZK-III, which puts a fresh spin on the ESP Phoenix template

Cycling News

As it happened: Stage winner disqualified after taking incorrect route to the finish on stage 3 of Itzulia Basque Country

The peloton took on 156.6km from Zarautz to Beasain

Guitar World

“A lot of Slayer riffs aren’t really for bass players – there’s just too many notes”: Slayer’s Tom Araya charts his incredible 4-string journey

From starting on a Paul McCartney Höfner ripoff to pioneering some of the heaviest metal ever committed to tape, Tom Araya admits he's no bass virtuoso… but he “can play fast sometimes”

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As it happened: Chaotic Tirreno-Adriatico stage 4 ends in bunch sprint despite crosswinds

Multiple GC riders caught in splits with Dunbar, Gee, Vauqulin and Simon Yates all caught out with the breakaway clinging on to their advantage.

Guitar World

“50 years is a great achievement for ESP, but our sights are set on what’s coming next”: ESP goes all-in on single-pickup builds for 2025 – is the neck humbucker becoming a thing of the past for metal guitars?

The Japanese luthier has dropped 28 new models, with half of those featuring single-pickup designs as it reflects changing trends in the metal guitar scene

Guitar World

“The best guitar that ever happened in guitar history”: ESP has dropped a new LTD signature guitar for Richard ZK – and it’s got the Rammstein riffer rather excited

The guitarist road-tested and experimented with various prototypes before landing on the final form

MusicRadar

NAMM 2025: “A cornucopia of metal guitar specs” – ESP unveils LTD signature models for Slipknot's Mick Thomson, Whitechapel's Alex Wade, Rammstein's Richard Kruspe and more in epic launch

It's that magical time of the year when ESP drop dozens of new models, and once again the metal guitar specialist has gone big with artist collabs

Guitar World

“A highly specialized design built to Mick’s exact specifications”: Mick Thomson’s long-awaited ESP signature guitar is finally here – but it’s not what we expected

The Slipknot guitarist’s first ESP signature guitar has been a long time coming, and its final form might take you by surprise

The Independent UK

Can AI help humans understand animals and reconnect with nature? A nonprofit research lab thinks so

A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists

Guitar World

“I’d bet most rock guitarists use only the bridge pickup with the tone control wide open 90% of the time… so why bother with a neck pickup and tone controls?” ESP LTD Deluxe EC-01FT review

This mid-priced single-cut offers a simple single-pickup drive – but a whole lot of tones to sniff out

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