A 12 months after the arrival of Wolfgang Van Halen’s debut Mammoth WVH album, he revealed plans to report a follow-up.
The self-titled LP was launched on June 11, 2021 and was well-received. It adopted seven months after his first single, “Distance,” a private tribute observe to late father Eddie Van Halen.
“Releasing this music was such an enormous factor for me in so many various methods,” Van Halen mentioned through social media. “It was thrilling, emotional, bittersweet, a reduction. It was the fruits of years of labor, trial and error, loss, self-doubt, and nervousness. It was an extended highway that led me to determining who I used to be as my very own particular person and artist. I found who I used to be by way of the method and arrived at one thing I may actually be happy with.”
Van Halen admitted he hadn’t been certain he was “even prepared” for that “new chapter” of his life however “jumped in anyway.” He added: “I knew it was the best factor to do as a result of it was what Pop wished. I simply want I may’ve shared the entire expertise with him. I do know he’d be proud and so fucking stoked with how every thing has gone to date.”
He continued: “I’m blown away with what Mammoth has completed this previous 12 months and I’m extremely grateful. None of this is able to’ve occurred with out the superb assist from all of you. So with all of my coronary heart, I’ve simply gotta say… Thanks.” He signed off with: “P.S: I’ll be heading into the studio in just a few months to start out engaged on the second album, and I couldn’t be extra excited. I promise to not take so long as I did with the primary one.”
Earlier this 12 months, Van Halen famous that his second album wouldn’t take so long as his first, which had a gestation interval of 5 years. “I’m very able to get again within the studio,” he informed Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM. “We have now some leftover tracks from the primary album that I would wish to take one other take a look at, possibly add stuff or possibly redo totally, after which a bunch of latest concepts to get into.”
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