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Dark Tranquillity discography

band discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ125014
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The following is the discography of Dark Tranquillity, a six-piece Swedish melodic death metal band formed in Gothenburg in 1989. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene. Since 2020 their line-up consists of vocalist Mikael Stanne, keyboardist Martin Brändström, and guitarists Christopher Amott and Johan Reinholdz.

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This entry incorporates text from Dark Tranquillity discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.