Faraz Anwar

Faraz Anwar, born on 15th July 1976 in Karachi, is a progressive Rock Guitarist. He started his music journey at the age of six when he, for the very first time, saw @yngwiemalmsteen on T.V. The bone chilling inspiration led him to pick up guitar as his beloved instrument.

In 2001, Gnarly Geezer released his first solo instrumental album “Abstract Point Of View”. The record label of late Allan Holdsworth. The album earned him international recognition. The album received appreciation from @Allan Holdsworth. This album earned him a place among Gnarly Geezer Artists. Later in 2004, Lion Music Records of Finland re-released the album. He wrote the music, played all the instruments and sequenced all the tracks himself and was recorded in DFS in just four months. Currently, Faraz is Lion Music Records artist.

In 2004, His black/death metal band “Dusk” & a progressive metal solo project “Mizraab” was launched. Dusk consisted of Faraz Anwar (guitars) and Babar Sheikh (vocals). Faraz composes, synthesizes and played guitars. The first album by Dusk was “My Infinite Nature Alone”, which a Portuguese label released in 1996 followed by the 2nd album named "Jahilia" which was released in 2003 by Epidemie Records. Dusk toured Czech Republic and performed 13 concerts in few parts of Europe in 2006/2007.
Faraz's solo project “Mizraab” exposes Faraz as a skilled multi-instrumentalist. Mizraab was post-grunge, progressive metal. Faraz single handedly managed to create concepts