Fredrik Johansson (25 June 1974 – 25 January 2022) was a Swedish guitarist.

Biography

Johansson was a member of

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

band Dark Tranquillity for almost six years. He joined in 1993 after the band's vocalist at the time,

Anders Fridén Pär Anders Fridén (born 25 March 1973) is a Swedish vocalist, best known as the lead singer of Heavy metal music, heavy metal band In Flames. He was also the vocalist of Dark Tranquillity and Passenger (Swedish band), Passenger, a side project ...

, left the band and their rhythm guitarist

Mikael Stanne Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as the vocalist and one of the lyricists (as well as a former rhythm guitarist) for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Since the departure of origina ...

took the vocalist role to solely focus on it, leaving an empty rhythm guitarist spot, which Fredrik took. Prior to the release of ''Projector'' in 1999, he was asked to leave Dark Tranquillity due to a lack of commitment to the band, stemming from the fact that he wanted to become a family man. There is a common misconception of him based on a shared name with another Swedish session guitarist from All Ends, who was actually the one to perform lead guitar on the

In Flames In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in Gothenburg in 1990. Alongside At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity, In Flames pioneered the genres known as Swedish death metal and melodic death metal. During t ...

song "December Flower" from the album ''

The Jester Race ''The Jester Race'' is the second studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released in February 1996. It is the first album to feature Anders Fridén as the band's vocalist, Björn Gelotte as the drummer, and Jester Head as the ban ...

''. Johansson died from cancer on 25 January 2022, at the age of 47.

Discography

Dark Tranquillity

Studio albums *'' The Gallery'' (1995) *''

The Mind's I ''The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul'' is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The te ...

'' (1997) *''

Projector A projector or image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors create an image by shining a light through a small transparent lens, but some newer types ...

'' (1999) EPs *'' Of Chaos and Eternal Night'' EP (1995) *'' Enter Suicidal Angels'' EP (1996)

References

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* * 1974 births 2022 deaths Dark Tranquillity members Dimension Zero (Swedish band) members Male guitarists Swedish heavy metal guitarists Swedish male musicians Musicians from Gothenburg Place of death missing Deaths from cancer in Sweden {{Sweden-guitarist-stub