Mark Lanegan, emblematic voice of indie rock, dies

Vocalist and songwriter

, who made a name for himself fronting the

and knew how to endure thanks to his participation in the Queens of the Stone Age, died 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

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 his memoir "Devil in a Coma" ("Devil in a coma"), from which the newspaper "The Guardian" published an excerpt, Lanegan recounted in a startling way the hallucinations he suffered from the disease as he regained and lost consciousness. consciousness in the intensive care of a hospital.

"This thing was trying to take me apart, my body and my mind, and there was no end in sight," he 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 "grunge" scene of early 90's.

A close

-the late leader of Nirvana-, Lanegan had been admitted countless times because of his addictions, but he always managed to come out afloat to exhibit his baritone voice with both the Screaming Trees and 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

albeit with a psychedelic touch, with his first solo adventures.

However, it was his collaborations with the

at the beginning of this century that offered him even greater projection, especially thanks to his participation in the album "Songs for the deaf" (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 draw for other artists far from hard rock, such as Belle & Sebastian singer

, with whom he collaborated on three albums.

Their range of joint work hardly knew any musical boundaries: from the alternative rock of the

, which he formed alongside 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.

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