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Wolfgang Van Halen Tells All: Anxiety Attacks, Weight Loss, Feuds, and A Great New Album

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Rolling Stone

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Wolfgang Van Halen talks about The End, the new album from his one-man-band, Mammoth; (reluctantly) discusses his feud with David Lee Roth; confirms that his uncle was planning an Eddie Van Halen tribute tour; and much more in a new interview with host Brian Hiatt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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for details. I'm Brian Hyde. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I've said it before, but one of the best

0:35.9

young rock bands is actually just one guy. The guy in

0:39.3

question is Wolfgang Van Halen, who plays guitar, bass, drums, and sings lead vocals in his band

0:45.7

Mammoth. Formerly known as Mammoth WVH, he finally got the rights to just call it Mammoth,

0:51.8

which is what he intended the whole time. The new album by Mammoth is called The End.

0:56.7

It's out now.

0:58.1

And Wolfgang joined me to talk about making it, what's going on in his life, including

1:02.3

a weight loss journey, and a bunch of other stuff.

1:05.0

He's not eager to say the name David Lee Roth, but there is a little bit of a feud

1:09.1

going on that Roth started by posting a

1:12.0

message last year that called Wolf This Fucking Kid and told an elaborate story about various

1:17.6

grievances Roth seems to have with him. Wolf isn't eager to talk about this feud, but he's

1:22.8

definitely willing to sing about it. There's a song on the new album called I Really Wanto that

1:27.0

takes Roth on directly. And we definitely get into that song quite a bit. And here's my interview

1:32.5

with Wolfgang Van Halen.

1:38.5

Yeah, man, so you have your third album now. You have a catalog now. How's it feel?

1:47.8

It's exciting. I think, yeah, it's fun that now, like, making set lists for live. It's like it's about picking what not to play now.

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