“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

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NAMM 2025: At long last, ESP has released its first Mick Thomson signature guitar, almost two years after the Slipknot electric guitar hero joined the company’s artist roster.

It was one of the biggest moves of 2023: after some not-so-cryptic social media posts made their way online, it was speculated that Thomson had defected to the ranks of ESP, seemingly leaving Jackson in the process.