Haken guitarist Charlie Griffiths has announced the first details of his debut solo album. Tiktaalika is due on June 17 via InsideOut, and the London-based musician describes it as “the world’s first palaeontology-based progressive metal album”.
“It’s inspired by a prehistoric creature called a Tiktaalik,” Griffiths tells Prog. “You could describe it as a missing link species between fish and tetrapods, and one of the first creatures to crawl out of the water.”
The guitarist has been with Haken since 2008, and to change things up from his work with them, Griffiths opted to use six-string guitars on the record as opposed to the eight-stringers he usually uses with that band. “My classic thrash side really came out,” he adds, “as well as lot of Cynic [and] tech metal influences. There’s…
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