“That required some right hand training. It was like a tongue twister for my hands”: Mike Dawes has transformed a Sleep Token song into a solo acoustic guitar masterclass – and the results are awe-inspiring

When it comes to reimagining popular rock and heavy metal tracks for solo guitar, there is arguably no one in the game who can rival Mike Dawes – the British acoustic guitar virtuoso whose body of work already boasts covers of Foo Fighters, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and more.

For his latest release, Dawes has turned his attention to contemporary alt/prog metal heroes Sleep Token, and transformed the cinematic metal ballad of Euclid into a one-guitar-only masterclass.