Mark Lanegan is dead. The former vocalist of the band Screaming Trees was 57 years old

“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan died this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. The beloved singer, composer, writer and musician was 57 years old, he left his wife, Shelley. More information is not yet available. The family asks for her privacy to be respected in this regard. time “- you can read in the official statement.

Mark Lanegan is dead. Last year, he released memories of the fight against COVID-19

The greatest popularity brought him the role of the lead singer of the band Screaming Trees, of which he was a member from 1985 to 2000. In the years 1994–1995 he was the vocalist of Mad Season, and in the years 2000–2014 he worked with the band Queens of the Stone Age. He has also performed (also in Poland) with his own band, Mark Lanegan Band. He has published poetry and has published two autobiographical books.

Screaming Trees was one of the more important bands in the Seattle grunge scene, formed by groups such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. He described his friendship with Kurt Vobai in his 2020 diary entitled “Sing Backwards and Weep”. Like Cobain, Lanegan was a drug addict. It was only after the death of Nirvana’s singer, under pressure from Cobain’s wife Courtney Love, that he finally went into rehab in the late 1990s. In 2020, he had a hard time suffering from COVID-19. He spent several weeks in the intensive care unit, he had to be put into a pharmacological coma. He described his struggle with the virus in the book “Devil in a Coma”, which was published in December last year.

Other artists say goodbye to music, incl. from the group Garbage: “A very talented artist, blessed with sweet tones, left far too early”. “Mark Lanegan was a loved man. He lived a crazy life that many of us can only dream of. He leaves behind great music and lyrics. Thank God, he will live forever thanks to them,” wrote Peter Hook, bassist of Joy Division and New Order.