Wolfgang Van Halen considers his group Mammoth to be “still very much a new band” — which makes The End seem an odd title for its third album.

“It is,” Van Halen — who plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals on the Mammoth recordings — acknowledges to Billboard via Zoom. “That’s not the meaning, obviously, but it gets people thinking. When they first see it, they’re like, ‘What?!’

“The main reason is I found, lyrically, I was working through a lot in the respect of just exploring what the end could mean in many different possibilities. That was on top of the fact that this is that we dropped the WVH from our name, finally, so it feels like the end of the old and the beginning of the new. It ties together thematically but is also where the band is right now, so (The End) just f

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