Lanegan released a solo album in May 2001 entitled "Field Songs". Also in that year, he became a member of the alternative rock group Queens of the Stone Age with Josh Homme. Lanegan recorded two albums as one of the group's three vocalists before leaving the group in late 2005. His sixth solo album "Bubblegum" was released in 2004 and became his best-selling album and his first solo album to chart. He has since gone on to work with Greg Dulli in the Gutter Twins and the Twilight Singers. Lanegan also received critical acclaim for his albums with Isobel Campbell, one of which, "Ballad of the Broken Seas", was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize.