Cort X500 MENACE BKS

Cort X500 MENACE BKS - Reborn for Metal and Extreme Music

The X500 has been reborn with modern aesthetics and enhanced features, transforming into the darker and more aggressive X500 Menace. It is exceptionally suited for metal and extreme music guitarists. While its neck-thru-body construction provides exceptional sustain and comfortable access to high frets, the X500 Menace now features a maple top on a more popular mahogany body, a reverse headstock, a 7-ply Maple/Purple Heart/Panga Panga neck, a compound radius fingerboard, a FloydRose® 1000 Series tremolo, and a Seymour Duncan® Sentient & Nazgul Humbucker set, offering perfect playability, sound quality, and the targeted look that extreme genre guitarists seek.

Key Features:

🎸 Mahogany Body and Maple Top

The maple top on a mahogany body is a classic wood combination: thick, cutting, warm, rich, full, and sweet tone. Combined with the neck-thru construction, sustain and tone transmission are limitless.

🔥 Neck-Thru Body Construction

No neck-to-body joint method can surpass neck-thru-body construction in terms of sustain, focused mid-range punch, and sharpness. Rock-solid stable and super smooth, it's built for speed across the entire range of the fingerboard.

⚡ Seymour Duncan® Sentient & Nazgûl Humbucker Set

Take your guitar to the center of the earth with Nazgûl and Sentient high-output passive humbucker pickups. Nazgûl combines a large ceramic magnet with custom winding specifications to create the perfect blend of note articulation, saturation, pick attack, and one of the most brutal "chugs" you'll ever hear from a humbucker. The Sentient neck provides a balanced, versatile tone, clear cleans, and fluid leads under high gain.

Technical Specifications:

• Construction: Neck-Thru
• Body Material: Mahogany
• Top Material: Solid Maple 15T
• Scale Length: 25.5″ (648mm)
• Neck Material: Maple, Purple Heart & Panga Panga 7-ply laminate
• Neck Shape: U Shape
• Neck Thickness: 1F: 19mm, 12F: 21mm
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony
• Fingerboard Radius: 12″-15.75″ Compound Radius (R305~400)
• Fret Count: 24 Jumbo Frets
• Fret Type: Jumbo (2.9×1.4), Nickel Silver
• Inlay: White side dots
• Nut Material: Locking Nut
• Nut Width: 1 11/16″ (43mm)
• Truss Rod: Dual-action adjustable
• Tuning Machines: Die-Cast
• Bridge: FloydRose® 1000 Series Tremolo
• Configuration: HH
• Pickups: Seymour Duncan® Sentient & Nazgul
• Controls: 1-Volume, 1-Tone, 3-Way Blade Switch
• Hardware: Black
• Strings: D'Addario® EXL120 (.009 .011 .016 .024 .032 .042)
• Neck Finish: Matte
• Body Finish: Matte
• Color: Black Satin (BKS)

Who is it for?

An ideal choice for professional and semi-professional guitarists working in metal, progressive, djent, and extreme music genres. Perfect for those seeking heavy riffs, fast solos, and brutal tone.

✓ Original Cort product
✓ Official warranty from Royal Musical Instruments store
✓ Up to 9 months interest-free installment option