Farewell to Mark Lanegan, founder of the Screaming Trees

Goodbye to Mark Lanegan, grunge pioneer, co-founder of the Screaming Trees, disappeared at the age of 57 on February 22nd. At the moment the causes of death are not known: a statement posted on his Twitter profile simply says Lanegan died at his home in Killarney, Ireland, without specifying what arrested his heart. In 2021 the singer had Covid in severe form, experience that led him to write a book, Devil in a coma, in which he explained that he regretted having believed conspiracy theories about the pandemic.

Born in Ellensburg, United States, Mark Lanegan began his career in music in the mid-eighties with Screaming Trees, considered one of the first grunge bands in the world along with Soundgarden, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Thanks to his scratched voice and his cursed charisma, Lanegan carves out his niche by becoming, in fact, the last survivor of grunge, the only one not sucked into his nightmares as happened to his friends Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. . Although Screaming Trees have never touched the commercial top of other bands, Mark Lanegan redeems himself in the following years thanks to his solo career.

Album like I’ll Take Care of You And Bubblegum manage to win over the public who appreciates the stylistic code of the singer, ready to follow him even once he has entered the Queens of the Stone Age of his friend Josh Homme, which allows him to churn out a pearl like Songs for the Deaf. Between ups and downs, as if his life were a roller coaster, Lanegan, who has released 11 solo recordsgenerates in the fans a very strong feeling of aggregation which, now that it is no longer there, is ready to turn into a lively and heartfelt farewell to accompany his latest journey.

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