Mark Lanegan was one of rock’s great brooding refuseniks, cut of the same cloth as Johnny Cash and Nick Cave, a grunge-era growler ... dapper in midnight-blue suit and tinted specs, led off ...

Sad news for the rock and metal world today, as Mark Lanegan, the musician, author ... Over the course of his career, Lanegan became an icon for the stoner rock, desert rock, and doom metal scenes.