“This has been through thick and thin… one of our crew fell on a stair, the whole neck snapped right off”: Swedish heavyweights Orbit Culture show us their ESP guitars – and tell us why the EverTune bridge was a game-changer

Orbit Culture's guitarists.

Orbit Culture got the memo. When MusicRadar summoned guitarists Richard Hansson and Niklas Karlsson to the tent at Norway’s Tons Of Rock Festival in June, they brought metal guitars in good standing – black paint jobs, matching black hardware and pointy edges as standard.

“We like pointy black guitars,” they explain. “As much metal it can be.” In other words, the Swedish melodeath champs are not playing around. They know what works.