At last month's Rock Hard Festival 2026 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, DARK TRANQUILLITY vocalist Mikael Stanne spoke with Marcus Schleutermann of Rock Hard magazine about the upcoming concerts in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra will host three performances, dubbed “The Gothenburg Sound,” at Göteborgs Konserthus on December 3, December 4 and December 5.

The concerts will serve as a warm tribute in memory of Tomas “Tompa” Lindberg.

As frontman of AT THE GATES, Lindberg was one of the most important individuals behind the Gothenburg sound.,Stanne said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's a super-cool event.

They contacted us through Tompa, actually, a year and a half ago or something like that, or two years ago almost.

Because that's what the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra does — they will do rare events like that, celebrating a genre or a certain artist or something like that." Stanne also stated that he hopes the concerts will be professionally filmed and recorded for future release.

This past January, Stanne spoke to Chile's Futuro radio about the birth of what is now widely known as "the Gothenburg sound" nearly four decades ago.

In an interview with U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine less than two years ago, Stanne discussed the experience of being lumped in with other Gothenburg bands.

He said at the time: "When people started calling it 'the Gothenburg sound', I noticed it on tour in 1995.

All of a sudden I see a flyer in the venue that says 'true Gothenburg-style metal'.

I had no idea what was going on.,DARK TRANQUILLITY's latest album “Endtime Signals,” came out in August 2024 via Century Media Records.