Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Now the album is called Mammoth W VH. The band is called Mammoth W. V. H. The band is called Mammoth W. V. H. The human being who we have with us is called Wolfgang Van Halen and

been lucky enough to talk to Wolf a few times as the songs from his debut album,

which is out now, kind of came out one by one, but now we have the whole thing and it's

everything I've heard works even

better in the context of the album I think it's it's one of the strongest just

full straight ahead unabashed rock albums I've heard in a while and I think you should be very proud you feeling proud how you feeling about it?

Well, yeah, it's it's crazy that we're here. It's been a long time coming. So it's just it feels like a dream that it's fine the thing I've been working on for this long is is finally here.

It's interesting because I think hearing the whole thing it does emphasize to me that it's dead

on to say two of the touchstones here are Foo Fighters and Jimmy at World.

You and I've been talking about it for a while.

And I mean, obviously, there's a ton of influences

and there's stuff that only you can do, a lot of that.

But when you think of what lineage this is in,

that's what it is. tell me about like discovering those bands it's not like you had to dig deep in the crates to find them they're pretty popular bands but you know discovering those bands personally and really specifically what you kind of took from

them as far as inspiration. Yeah when it when it comes to you know I always had this

dream of doing an album with me playing everything just like Dave Grohl did for the first Foo Fighters album.

It was just a thing I always wanted to try. It was always on my list of like,

this would be really fun. And when I got back from the 2012 Van Halen tour I was kind of just like okay what do I do now and I

started writing like taking it seriously and that's when I wrote the song Mammoth and it was like okay I think I think I'm on to something here and that's kind of where it all started and just from from the bands I would listen to all the time

everything from Foo Fighters to Jimmy at World to Nine Inch Nails to Tool to Alice and

James Queens of the Stone Age you know, it just kind of those influences really seem to inspire me.

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