Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees is considered to be one of the godfathers of Grunge. Although they were one of the best 'Seattle-bands' of the early nineties, they never achieved the commercial success of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.Founded in...

Sweet Oblivion is the sixth studio album by Screaming Trees, released on September 8, 1992. It quickly became the band's best-selling record, and was the closest they ever came to achieving mainstream success. Sweet Oblivion sold in...

Mark Lanegan was best known as the vocalist for Screaming Trees, and also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released 12 solo studio albums, as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with...

Mark Lanegan was best known as the vocalist for Screaming Trees, and also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released 12 solo studio albums, as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with...

Although finding mainstream success with the release of 'Sweet Oblivion', and the single ‘Nearly Lost You’ from the soundtrack to Cameron Crowes’s film 'Singles', the Screaming Trees’ history goes back to 1985, predating many of...

The history of the Screaming Trees goes back to 1985 when brothers Van Conner on bass and Gary Lee Conner on guitar teamed up singer Mark Lanegan in rural logging town Ellensburg, Washington State in 1985. After recording a handful of EPs and LPs for...

After releasing three albums with Greg Ginn's underground label SST, Screaming Trees broke through in 1991 with 'Uncle Anesthesia' on major label Epic. The band, fronted by Mark Lanegan (who would go on to collaborate solo with band members of...