Dark Tranquillity: "There's No Place for Racism in Metal" // Anchors to Asphalt

Mikael Stanne of Swedish Death Metal legends, Dark Tranquillity, explains the reality of the music business for extreme metal, sings the praises of their road crew and talks about his frustration with growing racism and xenophobia in his home country.
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[@doomhead1619]

You know the world is gone beyond repair when such a good band struggle to make a living.

[@user-uc6vq3ww4t]

😭😹💦

[@davidrapant6398]

I have met and talked with Mikael. He is very articulate and intelligent. People dont listen anymore, they are all to busy fighting and leaving shit comments. I think he has more of a clue as to what is going on in the world having traveled and talked with so many different people. I think he has a clue about what is going down where he lives. Thise leaving shit comments probably havent near the life experience he has. Let people say their piece and take it or leave it. Everyone has an opinion, though sometimes some are a little more exposed to whats going on in other places than others. Dark Tranquillity is an awesome band and I will continue to support them regardless of any opinion someeone in the band may have. Grow up people. Learn to bend just a little and you may find youll learn something.

[@Alex-hr1ml]

David Rapant i knew thim too, almost ten years back. We started to talk, before i realized who he was. We talked about so many things, before a show. Kind, intelligent and close. When their stow was ended, he went donw to talk to first lines people. Recogniced me, give me a hug and thanked me for stay there and support the band. That day my mind changed. Not all stars are growed and pure ego. If i already like the band before.... Since that day, even more. And about the polemic: let people talk about their thoughts. Whats so bad i it?

[@TheLokisrevenge]

@TheGypsy ThatRemains LMAO......This male has pics to prove !!! I've met many metal bands(plenty of pics)Mikael stands head and shoulders above them all when it comes to fan relationship ......Dark Tranquillity was the band responsible for me exploring extreme/underground metal and I haven't looked back

[@alextremodelnorte1905]

If he's got a problem with racism, he's just wrong.

[@AbtinX]

Mikael Stanne invited me to a release party along with one of the baseplayers, I tried to explain that I was only 16 at the time and Belzepub wouldn't let me in. Genuine, awesome guy. Much love for one of Sweden's greatest bands, always.

[@thelastdaybreathinginetern1385]

I love Dark Tranquillity. I grew up with them. I'm a black goth metalhead guy. I've been a metalhead for over a decade now. I listen to them a lot before high school and when I got into high school. I still do.

[@Chaozdablakjak]

I'm a black metal head/guitarist and DT is DEFINITELY one of my favorite bands. I got put on to them late. Actually found the band In Flames first and saw that Michael did vocals on their first few albums. I listen to DT every day.

[@faridahakmar4993]

That venue was too small for a great band like DT 😢

[@Akuma-jx8dr]

Hey, these people created awesome beautiful/ awesome music. They deserve a respectable audience with their fists in the air! Perminant fan here!

[@Sabertooth411]

Best band around the globe

[@SimoneJaegerFrauPanPan]

Admired him for years, now I love him! Not only an outstanding musician, but also a great mind and soul it seems!

[@NineRockBass]

Nach wie vor: tolle Videos! Danke für eure Arbeit 😍

[@FreqsTV]

NineRockBass vielen vielen Dank!!! ❤️🎸🤘🍺

[@Sabinathor]

Great Band! I'm just an old fan... since the beginning of Time! ;-)

[@orlandopadilla2464]

I seen dark tranquility a few years ago. Talked to a few members. Really cool people

[@artgrathartgrath3451]

I'm not gay but I love this man he is such a gentle soul and brutal at the same time mad respect for this band This band open my ears to new music and rise my standards musically and lyrically

[@woodward_alan]

I've been to multiple countries and also seen 100s of metal bands but never bands in other countries... very much on my bucket list!

[@paco8878]

There's many things to Discover in this world i have no place in my heart for racism.thanks, 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸only good noise 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@CatsCoffeeGuitars]

Even though I dissagree with a few points made in this video, I left a like because your editing skills are off the charts! I'll never stop praising the editing on this channel :D

[@FreqsTV]

Thanks for the love =-)

[@raimondfischbach3111]

Thanks a lot, dude! I gotta insist that it's great work from every department though. It's easy to edit when they provide you with such great camera work and stellar stage lighting like Rui Rodrigues did here.

1:22 I have that beauty at home ^_^

[@elfurreto]

who said : Can't we all get along ? oh ya rodney king

[@dampher]

Totally agree with Mikael! There is no place for racism in any kind of cultural manifestation because it´s universal by nature

[@LAURITSlykke]

song?

[@FreqsTV]

two songs from DT's latest album, Atoma, are featured in the movie: Atoma and Force of Hand the end credits are Pequod Hell Within

[@LAURITSlykke]

FreqsTV thanks, great editing btw :)

[@FreqsTV]

LAURITSlykke thanks :-)) ❤️❤️

[@thelegendofeli3887]

Anyone has any thoughts on ben shapiro?

[@axelpteeg]

yeah that dude's got some sick guitar licks man

[@thelegendofeli3887]

Axel the Frank hahaha yup

[@AlucardsQuest]

@@axelpteeg Can't debate worth a crap though.

[@luqmanmahmud211]

Varg, please see this

[@Joemama55122]

😂 now if only he sees an anti knife campaign video

[@TheBaubas]

You cancelled the show in England :(

[@xXAscendingPhoenixXx]

A couple of triggered conservatives in the comments. Yet they call everyone else snowflakes. Irony.

[@michaelfoxx6881]

xXAscendingPhoenixXx Only triggered snowflake I see on here commenting is AlcurdQuest being a homophobe talking about someone gargling Trumps nut sack?!? That's triggered man!

[@KapaH8sU]

Yeah there are points with what I disagree, but still. I found a great song thanks to this vid and I liked the presentation. :)

[@x.rickenbacker9393]

Immigration isn't the problem, the problem is humans allowing anyone, sleep in the cold, go hungry, suffer illness, just so you can have iPhone.

[@fightn3409]

What they mean with racism in metal, the fans or what?

[@jaysonwitting4671]

Both fans and musicians, the entire metal community.

[@SpaYkeRxXx]

What he just said perplexes me considering the fact that the last two albums seem to have a very strong connection to the political atmosphere in Europe, with lyrics like: "By our tolerance for the intolerant, Then we've lost our way". But then I realized that he doesn't take a big part in the song writing process. Sweden needs to wake up and fight back against its abusers. You don't have to carry a cross for people who don't respect you.

[@thebanished87]

Sweden's biggest abusers are their cucked left wing politicians who want cheap labor replacement migration. Migration in itself is neither good or bad , it all depends for what reasons you are allowing it.

[@darwinism14]

By our tolerance for the intolerant - are you sure they are not talking about muslims here?

[@AbtinX]

No they are talking about people like you

[@AbtinX]

Racists

[@elfurreto]

i don' care about you hair, your origins, your religion or what color you are, all i care about is the content not the container,,... dark tranquillity on 8 track is still as good as blueray dark tranquillity,.... content,..... not thephysical ghing it's on,.... hope you see the nuance

[@father042]

SWEDEN YES

[@franlovelsimic8421]

Dafuq s up with the dislikes?

[@melgibsonfan9082]

We're sick of being preached at everywhere we go.

[@megathrasherdeth]

then why come to a video like this? lol

[@cherifakhelif5]

Haters.. racists..

[@TheDiylog]

Where are all the right-wing nuts coming from?

[@axelpteeg]

the eclectic world around you !

[@ausnahmenwerfer5570]

There is a place for racism in Metal. It's called NSBM.

[@OldSchoolMetalVinyl]

Garbage music for equally as garbage listeners.

[@darwinism14]

Some bands are awesome.

[@Speed4Runs]

lmao, so many conspiracy theorists in the comments

[@michaelfoxx6881]

Did DT catch a bunch of shit over The Pitiless video with the Swedish Viking Princess flying the Swedish Flag or what?!? Guess it wasn't globalist enough! 😂

[@AlucardsQuest]

Never heard of that. But I do know people throw around AlexJonsian catch phrases like "globalism" when they don't want to help anyone in need.

[@michaelfoxx6881]

AlucardsQuest Be my guest and help them because they're in need! Many, many organizations thru out the west namely that would be happy 😊 to take ur donations! Examples Red Cross and United Way! As for me I'm a working Western that has about 30 % or more of what I spend most of my life and time working for clipped from every pay check to take care of social dependents against my will already!

[@evacody1249]

How can you help someone if you can't even help yourself?

[@AlucardsQuest]

Better globalism than nazism.

[@piotrlewandowski4188]

In pop music, rap, classical music, jazz, country? Is there a place for racism? Do you see any difference? I do not.

[@drumilo8814]

no, but hes not a pop, rap, classical, jazz, or country artist, so they asked him about the metal community

[@DerSohnDesAlvaters]

I find it ironic, but a diverse Sweden, on the scale the Swedish left desires, would have never produced a Gothenburg scene.

[@ruzzsverion2728]

Yeah nothing says metal like immigration lol.

[@squeakypancake8067]

I am quite used to people I view as musical geniuses having stupid political opinions. As worldly as they may think they are, they tend to interact primarily with a very small subset of people, most of whom are not the problematic people everyone is up in arms about (although some music festivals seem to attract grabby refugees, I don't know if metal festivals do). He is right though. As a metal fan, I love bands from many nations across the world. I also respect the right of those various nations to have their own country, and control their own destiny.

[@ladybuglady3020]

I love their music, I understand what Mikael is saying but I can't agree with all of it. I don't think the world is this easy to understand or people to be judged by being on the right side in politics, like people are bad for not liking immigration. Still, I respect his opinion, I know he is a good person and means good.

[@dampher]

About the video comments: people has the right to stand up and reject the violence of their environment and the causes of it, but when you label the aggressor with a generalization like a color or a nation, or just "not-of my-kind"... --That is what makes you an stupid racist * Fix the system -> to fix the politics -> to fix the environment -> to fix the people

[@ratsalad1]

@@Valhal1776 to what "demographic trends" are you referring. Please, be more specific.

[@luis_punisher9045]

And who made this guy the landlord of metal to decide what is allowed or not? I'l tell you what is not metal: censorship of freedom of speech.

[@paulinoviedo764]

So you're not in favor of censorship, but you are not ok with him voicing his opinion? ("Who made this guy the landlord of metal to decide what is allowed or not"), Worst take I have read in this comment thread. Do better.

[@luis_punisher9045]

@@paulinoviedo764 good for you man

[@luis_punisher9045]

​@@paulinoviedo764Tbh I didn't answered because your comment made no sense. Obviously he has the right to voice his opinion, as I have the right to criticize it. Disagreement is part of freedom of speech.

[@user-bm3ts2ql6s]

Great band. Great music. Nice guy. Totally wrong on immigration.

[@darwinism14]

Strange to see them become a SJW band. Nott a loss though, because they have n’t made a good album, basically since forever.

[@luis_punisher9045]

Maybe they need a popularity boost

[@Drpavel564]

Good thing I stopped caring about DT after Haven. SWEDEN YES DIVERSITY RULES

[@AlucardsQuest]

Yeah, I stop listen to bands when their music gets better too! It's the dardest thing!

[@AlucardsQuest]

And good thing that DT doesn't care whether you care or not... but you missed out on a shitton of damn good music.

[@Drpavel564]

>listening to late DT albums >when bands like Insomnium, Kalmah, Bela'kor make beter albums every year You can keep your washed up Gothenburg shit

[@AlucardsQuest]

@@Drpavel564 Amateurs with the same tired boring ass troo sounds... No thanks. I like music that takes effort to create, not just perform.

[@gaymohammed3137]

@@Drpavel564 Sooo about the insomnium part, you still share the opinion after 4 years? Heart like a grave is not a good album and their last 4-5 songs are some of the worst songs I heard from ANY band. DT may or may not fit your taste anymore but nowhere near did they do a insomnium move 1989-2021

[@thebanished87]

Migration is OK as long as the people are screened before entering the country. He can't deny that many migrants that came in via this open borders policy are also criminals probably running from justice back home. You can appreciate different peoples and cultures but law and order are still paramount to a functioning society. Maybe Mikael is too close to the forest to see the trees.

[@elitemetalgirl2955]

Stick to music please !

[@BlondPanda]

Their music has always dealt with society, religion and politics. This is a part of what they, as a band, stand for.

[@Speed4Runs]

Indeed, Blond Panda! Looks like nobody has ever read any dt lyrics

[@olehsztul6177]

Can you explain to me why are you so angry that Mikael Stanne gave his point of view on the world and what he thinks politicaly? What's with all the anti left these days, don't we know that Metal has always been hated by conservatives?

[@Speed4Runs]

populism, sir

[@olehsztul6177]

That answer doesn't surprise me, although I can't say for sure since I don't know what Madam's political views are, she's probably just fed up with all the political talk and wants to get away from it. But if she is I think she will have to change her opinion quite quickly since Metal was leftist from the very beginning, this is just my personal analysis but to be racist in Metal is quite absurd since it's based off the Blues which was created by the Black man, Rock which was very opposed to conservative ideas like the continuation of the Vietnam War and Punk which has many anarcho communist fallowers even genres such Anacho Punk, Hardcore Punk, Crust, Oi! and D-Beat are in majority leftist so yeah this why I think conservative traditionalism, nationalism and racism is quite rejected in Metal although I do agree that the scene was a bit hijacked due to existence of RAC, Nazi Punk and NSBM.

[@drummerinthepark9641]

He believes in being better morally and also expects the immigrants to be the same but that's not very easy when a very bad religion governs 'em. I like his virtues a lot but they don't belong in the realms of others he hopes to be better from or expects them to rise above fanaticism, it won't happen ever.