“Usually I’ve done the demos on my laptop, which can be a bit creatively stifling. You can get lost in the sauce trying to program the drums properly and kinda lose that itch”: Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s taking more chances on his new Mammoth album

Wolfgang Van Halen.

In the video for the title track and lead single from Mammoth’s third full-length The End, a perfectly innocent dive bar performance descends into chaotic scenes reminiscent of video nasties like Thriller and From Dusk Till Dawn.

At the very beginning, actor Danny Trejo tells Wolfgang Van Halen and his band to keep things quiet and civil, warning them against using distortion and even going as far as to warn them: “No frickin’ solos!”