“Some riffs just have that big swing to them. You can definitely hear that in the first Van Halen album”: How Wolfgang Van Halen created a new song with echoes of classic VH – and Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer

Wolfgang Van Halen.

There are many catchy moments on The End, the third full-length from Mammoth – the musical project from swansong-era Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.

But out of all the songs on the album, it’s the chorus of I Really Wanna that really seems to squirrel its way through the ear canals and imprint itself inside the deepest corners of our minds.