The man with the grave voice of Mark Lanegan live in Freiheiz

Mark Lanegan Mark Lanegan in Freiheiz in Munich is one of the most exciting and busiest artists in American rock music scene. From the time as head of the grunge icons The Screaming Trees over his years with the stoner-rock stars Queens of the Stone Age through to his current part-time band The Gutter Twins: When the 47-year-old singer and guitarist of Seattle a project participates result, the outstanding. In February, appeared at last, "Funeral Blues", the new album by Mark Lanegan Band. In summer, the bard's grave with the moving parts together with his band on a major tour, which he 14.08. also leads to Freiheiz in Munich.
Today there are only very few artists whose qualities are so significant as that of Mark Lanegan. If sound, songwriting, voice, text, or his disturbing his whole aura: Lanegan exudes mystery and a bit dramatic, is second to none. Years ago, the ambitious musician known, therefore, that his special talent lead to strange orders: "I am often asked to sing at funerals. My voice seems the perfect tone for sad events have to. "The special ability, his works in different stylistic contexts to make him a worldwide fan base has given. Whether psychedelic, grunge and stoner rock, whether folk ballads, blues and moody electronic music pumping, always finds the right Mark Lanegan, dark mysterious sound. That's why over the past three decades, numerous renowned musicians torn about working with him.
His spurs earned Lanegan as head the Seattle band The Screaming Trees. With them he released seven albums 1986-2000, some of which are among the gems of the grunge era. Simultaneously he began to drive off in 1990, his career as a solo artist and released six albums on which he was supported by some of the most important colleagues, including Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone age). After the end of the Screaming Trees, he therefore docked for two albums as a permanent member of the Queens, which he finally gained international notoriety.
The past decade he used for the expansion of his experiences. He wrote and produced three worn folk albums together with Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian), lent his voice British electronic acts such as UNKLE, Bomb the Bass or Soulsavers and went under the name The Gutter Twins, a collaboration with longtime friend Greg Dulli (The Twilight Singers) a. Their 2008 debut posted "Saturnalia" is considered one of the best rock albums of the year.
For a long time it has therefore not been heard from solo artist Mark Lanegan - the exciting offerings were simply too numerous. "Bubblegum", the last publication of the Mark Lanegan Band, the world got in spite of their dark and sluggish Electro Blues in the top 40 charts, dates from 2004. The waiting came to an end in February, when the seventh album by Mark Lanegan Band, "Blues Funeral," was published. Even here he was again supported by numerous prominent colleagues, including Josh Homme, Greg Dulli, Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) and Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal), which the panel in its Studio in Los Angeles produced. It might be the album title program: Lanegan delivers with "Funeral Blues" new song for the perfect dark funeral.