The wheel has spoken… and on Episode 195 we’re diving into the debut album from Mammoth WVH.

Wolfgang brought the riffs, hooks, and enough guitar layers to make your speakers file a noise complaint. We’re breaking it all down track by track on the latest episode of Rock Roulette!

Mammoth WVH (later retitled to Mammoth) is the debut studio album by American rock band Mammoth. The album was released on June 11, 2021, by EX1 Records.

The album’s origins can be traced back to 2013 after Wolfgang Van Halen finished the A Different Kind of Truth Tour with Van Halen and began working on his own music. The album was completed in 2018.

For the opening track, “Mr. Ed”, Wolfgang used the original Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synthesizer that his father, Eddie Van Halen, used for the 1981 Van Halen track “Sunday Afternoon in the Park”.

Wolfgang used his father’s original Frankenstrat guitar for the solos on “Mammoth” and “Feel”.

The album cover features a painting by American painter John Brosio of a giant crab terrorizing a parking lot. When asked about the significance of the crab, Wolfgang Van Halen responded on Twitter with a screenshot of the synonyms of the word “mammoth”, further stating that “We all know it takes being a Van Halen to understand that the word mammoth means ‘big.’“

Mammoth
Wolfgang Van Halen – lead & backing vocals, lead & rhythm guitars, keyboards, piano, bass guitar, drums, percussion

Production
Michael Baskette – production, mixing
Josh Saldate – engineering
Jef Moll – engineering, editing
Brad Blackwood – mastering

Artwork
John Brosio – artwork
Chuck Brueckmann – art direction, design
Travis Shinn – photography

Intro Music/Wheel Spin Music by LiteSaturation from Pixabay