New Adventures In Prog!

Haken guitarist and TG writer Charlie Griffiths talks about his extraordinary new solo album and profiles four of modern prog's rising stars...

- Amit Sharma

Charlie Griffiths' ventures as a guitar player have certainly been plentiful. First C and foremost, he's known for his work alongside multi-instrumentalist Richard Henshall in English progressive metal band Haken, who formed in 2007 and have six studio albums, one EP and two live albums to their name thus far. In 2017, Charlie was recruited by ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy for the Shattered Fortress supergroup, performing some of the finger-twisting and genre-defining progressive metal masterpieces from the drummer's original band. On top of his duties as a guitar magazine columnist and tutor, he's also released his solo debut Tiktaalika, which he describes as "the world's first paleontology-based progressive metal album".