Singer Mark Lanegan says he suffered from severe COVID symptoms: the musician went deaf and fell into a coma

Mark Lanegan, singer known from Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age fame, describes in a recent book the severe COVID symptoms he suffered while in hospital.

Lanegan was hospitalised with the coronavirus in 2020, and during his experience, he lost his hearing and fell into a coma. Doctors gave him little chance of surviving the disease.

According to Consequence’s story, however, Lanegan gradually regained his hearing. The singer then wrote a book about his experiences, “Devil In Coma”, which will be published on 14 December. You can pre-order here.

The official press release for the book reads:

“One blindingly bright morning in Ireland in March 2021, Mark Lanegan woke up and walked into the kitchen to pour himself a cup of coffee. Having gone completely deaf during the illness that had been slowly devouring his sick body, he found himself floored with cracked ribs unable to breathe. His body — burdened with a gigantic dose of COVID-19 — was quickly taken to Kerry Hospital with little hope of survival.

Slipping in and out of coma, Lanegan’s mind and body were left oscillating between life and death, unable to walk or function for several months. As his situation becomes more intolerable over the course of that bleakest of springs he is assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about a life lived on the edge of chaos and disorder. He is prompted to consider his predicament and how, in his sixth decade, his lifelong battle with mortality has led to this final banal encounter with a disease that has done for millions, when he has apparently been cheating death for his whole existence.”