The vocalist and composer Mark Lanneganwho made a name for himself leading the Screaming Trees and knew how to endure thanks to its participation in the Queens of the Stone Agedied this Tuesday in Ireland at the age of 57, after having become one of the reference voices of current rock.
“Our dear friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland,” announced a message posted on his Twitter account.
The statement stressed that “no further information is available at this time,” and asked that Lanegan’s “family privacy” be respected, including his wife Shelley.
The artist, born in the state of Washington (northwestern USA), recounted in December his hard fight against covid-19, which led him to go into a coma for months and put him on the verge of death on several occasions .
In your memoir Devil in a Coma (Devil in a coma), of which the daily Guardian published an excerpt, Lanegan gave a harrowing recount of the hallucinations he suffered from the disease as he drifted in and out of consciousness in hospital intensive care.
“This thing was trying to take me apart, my body and my mind, and there was no end in sight.” wrote. Months before, he had been a furious denier who spread different conspiracy theories about covid and who refused to be vaccinated.
Although it was his most extreme experience, it was not the first time that Lanegan looked death in the face, the result of a life full of excesses that took away some of his great friends with whom he formed the grungy scene from the early 90s.
close friend of Kurt Cobain -the late leader of Nirvana-, Lanegan had been hospitalized countless times because of his addictions, but he always managed to get out to show off his baritone voice both with the Screaming Trees and with the Queens of the Stone Age or solo.
Throughout the 1990s, the singer combined his records with the Screaming Trees, one of the pioneer groups of “grunge” albeit with a psychedelic touch, with his first solo adventures.
However, it was his collaborations with the Queens of the Stone Age at the beginning of this century that gave him an even greater projection, especially thanks to his participation in the album Songs for the dead (2002).
Josh Homme’s band showcased Lanegan’s talent dribbling, both on albums and in live performances, but his cavernous voice reached new audiences and became one of the most sought after at numerous rock festivals.
That characteristic timbre was also a powerful claim for other artists far from hard rock, such as the singer of Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, with whom he collaborated on three albums.
Their range of joint works hardly knew musical boundaries: from the alternative rock of the Gutter Twins, which they formed together with Afghan Whigs member Greg Dulli, to the electronica of Moby or UNKLE.
His twelve solo adventures never enjoyed the same success, but they managed to win him a small legion of unconditional fans who today mourn his loss. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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