# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niklas-sundin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:55.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niklas-sundin"
name: "Niklas Sundin"
slug: "niklas-sundin"
description: "Niklas Sundin is a Swedish musician, best known as a founding member and former lead guitarist of the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity from 1989–2020. In 2019, he founded his own band called Mitochondrial Sun, which has released three full-length studio albums to date. He is also a member of Time and the Hunter, a project founded in collaboration with Italian musician Enrico Longhin. He was a guitarist in the metal band Laethora from 2005–2010."
tagline: "Swedish guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Niklas_Sundin_%E2%80%93_Hamburg_Metal_Dayz_2014_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1974-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.70709466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  239
  category: null
totalFollowers: 533
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nklsundin"
    handle:    "nklsundin"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/nklsundin/"
    handle:    "nklsundin"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/niklassundinofficial"
    handle:    "niklassundinofficial"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.nsundin.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNtRlf4D7uydcfeOh-WjFPA"
    handle:    "@niklassundinofficial"
    followers: 533
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نيكلاس سوندين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ニクラス・スンディン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Сундин, Никлас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
    title: "Niklas Sundin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Sundin"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump