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In the two years since\u00a0Wolfgang Van Halen<\/a>‘s music project\u00a0released\u00a0its second album, Mammoth II<\/em><\/a>, the band shortened its name from Mammoth WVH (a tribute to his late father<\/a>‘s band, Van Halen<\/a>, and acknowledgment of his own identity) to the scaled-back Mammoth<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s about all that’s changed in the interim. For their third album, The End<\/em>, Van Halen once again handles all instruments, singing and writing duties by himself; the music, similarly, lands in the middle ground between early 2000s hard rock and a contemporary update.<\/p>\n Mammoth is a modern-day band with one foot in the past of\u00a0Van Halen’s youth, so the mix of sounds that surges throughout The End<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 hard rock, melodic metal, grunge and electronic \u2014 is genuine. At no\u00a0time does Van Halen attempt to exploit his lineage,\u00a0aside from recording the album at his dad’s 5150 Studios.\u00a0The End<\/em>\u00a0was undoubtedly\u00a0made by someone who grew up in the late ’90s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n