YMMV / Dark Tranquillity

• Awesome Music: Provides quite a few, but perhaps most notably "Punish My Heaven", which is widely regarded as one of the best Melodeath songs of all time.
  • Really, most of their albums qualify but especially The Gallery.
• Fandom Rivalry: Quite a few Dark Tranquillity fans dislike a certain "Big Three" Melodeath band (In Flames) for having supposedly sold out and become mainstream, while Dark Tranquillity stayed true to its roots. This is especially odd if you consider that the members of In Flames and Dark Tranquillity are all friends, and all the past members of In Flames have recently begun working with Mikael Stanne on The Halo Effect.
• Signature Song: "Punish My Heaven" could be one, either for The Gallery, the band, and probably Melodeath itself.
• Tear Jerker: "Lethe" from The Gallery. More melancholy-inducing than outright tear-wrenching, but it's still quite sad. "Blind at Heart" and "Misery's Crown" from Fiction. While "Misery's Crown" has a much more restrained, Know When to Fold 'Em feel, "Blind at Heart" can bring a tear to the eyes of an unprepared metalhead. "Auctioned" has a pretty sad feeling to it, Mikael sounds really sad in this song, the lyrics seem to tell a tale of a man who watched his life pass by and is regretting it.

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