Instruments:
Guitar (electric);
multi-instrumentalist / songwriter;
Role:
Lead Guitarist
(Former) Bands/Projects:
Twilight Force, Azure, Slice the Cake
Links:
Biography
Galen Stapley is a Brighton-based guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, and a graduate of the Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM). With over a decade of industry experience, Galen has become a prominent figure in the UK progressive and metal scenes, specialising in advanced “shred” technique and complex progressive theory. Working as a freelance session player, recording and writing for heavy, guitar-driven rock and metal acts, and founding member of the now defunct Brighton prog-metal band Azure (albums “Fym” and “Of Brine and Angel’s Beaks”) and a former member of the cult prog-metal act Slice the Cake.
Since September 2024 Galen has been the touring and recording guitarist of Swedish symphonic power metal band Twilight Force, performing under the stage name “Galyn”.
Detail credits on TDW material
Galen is heard as the lead gutarist on the tracks It All Made Sense After All and Remembrance on the Bane of the Talebearer OST album.
Appearances
