Mikael Stanne

In addition to his usual growling vocals, Dark Tranquillity's 1999 album, Projector showcased his operatic "clean" singing abilities. After Projector, however, the clean style was mostly abandoned until the release of Fiction in 2007.

Stanne along with Niklas Sundin formed Dark Tranquillity because they were bored, along with interest in metal from their influences. He played guitar and performed "clean" backing vocals on Dark Tranquillity's first album, Skydancer, as well as on their early demos, including Enfeebled Earth released under the name Septic Broiler. In 1994, Anders Fridén, Dark Tranquillity's original vocalist left the band to join In Flames. Stanne then became the new vocalist and discontinued playing guitar.

Stanne was the original vocalist for HammerFall from 1993 until 1996, after which he was replaced because he couldn't perform with HammerFall due to his commitment to Dark Tranquillity.

Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is the vocalist and one of the lyricists (also previously rhythm guitarist) for the Swedish extreme metal band, Dark Tranquillity. Since 2020 he is the only remaining original member of the band with the drummer Anders Jivarp. He was also an ex-vocalist for Swedish power metal band HammerFall.