Post by Henny Macc on Jun 11, 2021 8:35:31 GMT
Wolfgang William Van Halen (March 16, 1991 - )
Years active: 2006-present
Country of origin: United States of America
Recorded vocal range: B2-G5
Band history:
- 2006-2020 - Van Halen (bass, backing vocals)
- 2013-2016 - Tremonti (bass, backing vocals)
- 2020-present - Mammoth WVH (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums)
Recorded high notes:
E5: "Another Celebration at the End of the World"
D♯5/E♭5: "As Long as You're Not You", "Erase Me"
D5: "Another Celebration at the End of the World", "Goodbye", "Like a Pastime", "Little Dreamer" live Philadelphia 2007, "Optimist", "Talk & Walk", "You'll Be the One"
C♯5/D♭5: "As Long as You're Not You", "Mammoth", "Mr. Ed", "Take a Bow", "Talk & Walk", "Think It Over"D♯5/E♭5: "As Long as You're Not You", "Erase Me"
D5: "Another Celebration at the End of the World", "Goodbye", "Like a Pastime", "Little Dreamer" live Philadelphia 2007, "Optimist", "Talk & Walk", "You'll Be the One"
C5: "As Long as You're Not You", "Better Than Me", "Blood and Fire" live Pittsburgh 2012, "Bottoms Up!" live San Jose 2012, "Don't Back Down", "Feel", "Feel Your Live Tonight" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Horribly Right", "I Don't Know It All" live Boston 2022, "I'm Alright", "I'm the One" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Jamie's Cryin'" live Reading 2012, "Jump" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Optimist", "Resolve", "She's the Woman" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Stone", "Talk & Walk", "The Big Picture"
B4: "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Another Celebration at the End of the World", "Better Than You", "Distance", "Drop Dead Legs" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Epiphany", "Erase Me", "Girl Gone Bad" live Pittsburgh 2012, "Goodbye", "Jump" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Like a Pastime", "Light Up the Sky" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Mammoth", "Miles Above Me", "Mr. Ed", "Paradise City" live Hollywood 2021, "Right", "Talk & Walk", "The Big Picture", "Think It Over", "Waiting", "You're to Blame"
A♯4/B♭4: "Beautiful Girls" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Bottoms Up!" live San Jose 2012, "Circles", "Dance the Night Away" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Feel", "Feel Your Love Tonight" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Have a Nice Day" live at the Los Angeles Convention Center 2024, "Hear About It Later" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Hot for Teacher" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Ice Cream Man" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "I'm the One" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "In a Simple Rhyme" live at Concord Pavilion 2015, "Light Up the Sky" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Optimist", "Outta Love Again" live Montreal 2012, "Panama" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Romeo Delight" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Running with the Devil" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Stone", "Take a Bow", "The Big Picture", "The Full Bug" live Las Vegas 2012, "Women in Love..." live at Tokyo Dome 2013
A4: "...And the Cradle Will Rock" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "As Long as You're Not You", "Beautiful Girls" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Better Than You", "Don't Back Down", "Goodbye", "Horribly Right", "Hot for Teacher" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "I Don't Know It All" live Boston 2022, "I'm Alright", "Like a Pastime", "Mammoth", "Miles Above Me", "Mr. Ed", "Right", "Stone", "Talk & Walk", "Tattoo" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Them Bones" live Milwaukee 2022, "Think It Over", "You'll Be the One", "You're to Blame"
G♯4/A♭4: "Blood and Fire" live Pittsburgh 2012, "Bullethead", "Dirty Movies" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Drop Dead Legs" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "Erase Me", "Hang 'em High" live Boston 2012, "Have a Nice Day" live at the Los Angeles Convention Center 2024, "In a Simple Rhyme" live at Concord Pavilion 2015, "Jamie's Cryin'" live Reading 2012, "Mammoth", "Miles Above Me", "My Hero" live Boston 2022, "(Oh) Pretty Woman" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Panama" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Right", "Somebody Get Me a Doctor" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "So This Is Love?" live Anaheim 2007, "Talk & Walk", "The Trouble with Never", "Think It Over", "Unchained" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Waiting", "Women in Love..." live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "You and Your Blues" acoustic The Downtown Sessions 2012
G4: "Another Celebration at the End of the World", "Circles", "Distance", "Everybody Wants Some!!" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Feel", "Goodbye", "Have a Nice Day" live at the Los Angeles Convention Center 2024, "Little Guitars" live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2015, "(Oh) Pretty Woman" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Optimist", "Panama" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "Resolve", "Stone", "Tattoo" live at Tokyo Dome 2013, "The Big Picture", "You Really Got Me" live at Tokyo Dome 2013
Recorded low notes:
F3: "Circles", "Optimist"
E3: "Right", "Think It Over", "Waiting"
D♯3/E♭3: "The Big Picture", "Think It Over", "Waiting"
D3: "Another Celebration at the End of the World", "Circles", "Distance", "Goodbye"
C♯3/D♭3: "Another Celebration at the End of the World" live acoustic at Planet Rock 2023
C3: "The Big Picture"
B2: "Erase Me"
{Album ranges}
Mammoth WVH:
Mammoth WVH:
- Mammoth WVH (2021) - C3-E♭5
- Mammoth II (2023) - B2-D5-E5
{Detailed bio}
Wolfgang Van Halen first became a known name to the world of music as the son of renowned guitar hero Eddie Van Halen, but has since gone on to establish himself as a very talented and distinguished musician of his own. A very impressive multi-instrumentalist, he initially began his career mainly serving as a bassist and backing vocalist in the bands Van Halen and Tremonti, but continued to hone his skills at other instruments on the side the whole time, eventually recording a solo album titled Mammoth WVH that he handled all vocal and instrument roles on himself. Since making his debut as a lead vocalist with that album, Wolfgang has revealed himself to have an excellent singing voice, with a very pleasant tone, strong sense of expressiveness, and quite a bit of belting power in his high range. However, despite his high singing abilities, he has remained somewhat range conservative thus far in his career - clearly focusing on only singing notes that fit his songs, rather than trying to show off and rangewank. He has demonstrated considerable ease up into the fifth octave however, and clearly would be capable of singing higher if he so chose. Aside from that, he has still only shown minimal amounts of his low range - literally never hitting anything in the second octave, and only occasionally even drifting as low as the lower third octave. Regardless, though, I'm sure the man has much more music in store for us, which will likely give us other opportunities to hear more sides of his voice.
Wolfgang began his career at the young age of 16, joining forces with his father Eddie and his uncle Alex Van Halen to become the new bassist of their namesake band. This occurred in 2006, when the band announced the return of original lead vocalist David Lee Roth and an accompanying 2007-2008 tour, as well as the unexpected and somewhat controversial dismissal of longtime bassist Michael Anthony. Stepping into Michael's shoes to take over his role would've been a somewhat intimidating role for many musicians - not necessarily because of the difficulty of his bass parts, but rather because of the constant high backing vocals that he prominently delivered as part of Van Halen's signature sound. However, Wolfgang handled all parts of this role like a champ - faithfully recreating Michael's bass parts and backing vocals on every song from the band's first six albums that he performed with them (the only exception that I can think of being on the song "I'll Wait", where Wolfgang opted for F4 harmonies on the chorus in the place of Michael's D5s). Though he did not mimic Michael's rangewanking tendencies as a backing vocalist (as he was prone to frequently throwing screams into his backing vocals that could get into the upper fifth or sometimes even sixth octave), Wolfgang's voice proved to fit in very suitably with the band's vocal harmonies, and adapted very well to their sound overall.
Following the conclusion of his first tour with Van Halen in 2008, Wolfgang returned home to finish high school, and then began to work on a new studio album with the band. This album came to fruition in 2012 with the title A Different Kind of Truth, and featured a combination of brand new songs co-written with Wolfgang, and older unreleased songs from the band's early days that were rewritten and rerecorded for the purposes of the album. However, unlike on the band's earlier albums with David Lee Roth, where all lead vocals were handled by Roth and all backing vocals were handled by Eddie and Michael, this album mostly saw Roth handling his own backing vocals, and only featured occasional songs where Wolfgang did backing vocals. Instead, Wolfgang's role as a backing vocalist in the band continued to be more central to their live performances during the album's accompanying tour, which can be particularly heard on the subsequent live album that the band recorded in 2013, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert (which would later be released in 2015).
In 2012, Wolfgang also began to play as a fill-in bassist in the band Tremonti during their first tour. This led to him becoming an official member of the band in 2013, and he released two albums with them providing bass and backing vocals - Cauterize in 2015, and Dust in 2016, before parting ways with the band later in 2016. Wolfgang also toured with Van Halen for a third time in 2015, which would go on to be the band's final tour before going on hiatus later that year. In the meantime during this hiatus, Wolfgang began to work on his own solo album, for which he handled all vocals, instruments, and songwriting completely by himself. He finished recording this album in late 2020, which sadly coincided with the death of his father, Eddie, from a stroke. It was later announced that in light of Eddie's death that Van Halen would not be continuing, and that this officially marked the band's breakup. However, this loss also gave way to the official beginning of Wolfgang's solo career, as he released his first single, "Distance", a few weeks later as a tribute to his late father, under the moniker Mammoth WVH.
From there, Mammoth WVH continued to actively release new singles on a semi-monthly basis, eventually announcing a June 2021 release date for a self-titled album. The album was overall well-received, and was followed by a supporting tour opening for Guns n' Roses. Though Wolfgang had played all instruments on the album, for live performances he recruited two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer as his backing band, and focused on playing rhythm guitar, keyboards, and singing himself. As he has gone along in his solo career since then, he has made a strong point to honor and recognize his musical legacy, but also separate himself from it as an artist - as he is very determined to make his mark as his own person and artist, and not just be known as the son of a legendary rock guitarist. In my opinion, I'd say he's doing a fine job of accomplishing that so far, and I greatly look forward to seeing what other music he will bring us in Mammoth WVH over time, because the first album alone already shows a tremendous amount of promise.
Wolfgang Van Halen first became a known name to the world of music as the son of renowned guitar hero Eddie Van Halen, but has since gone on to establish himself as a very talented and distinguished musician of his own. A very impressive multi-instrumentalist, he initially began his career mainly serving as a bassist and backing vocalist in the bands Van Halen and Tremonti, but continued to hone his skills at other instruments on the side the whole time, eventually recording a solo album titled Mammoth WVH that he handled all vocal and instrument roles on himself. Since making his debut as a lead vocalist with that album, Wolfgang has revealed himself to have an excellent singing voice, with a very pleasant tone, strong sense of expressiveness, and quite a bit of belting power in his high range. However, despite his high singing abilities, he has remained somewhat range conservative thus far in his career - clearly focusing on only singing notes that fit his songs, rather than trying to show off and rangewank. He has demonstrated considerable ease up into the fifth octave however, and clearly would be capable of singing higher if he so chose. Aside from that, he has still only shown minimal amounts of his low range - literally never hitting anything in the second octave, and only occasionally even drifting as low as the lower third octave. Regardless, though, I'm sure the man has much more music in store for us, which will likely give us other opportunities to hear more sides of his voice.
Wolfgang began his career at the young age of 16, joining forces with his father Eddie and his uncle Alex Van Halen to become the new bassist of their namesake band. This occurred in 2006, when the band announced the return of original lead vocalist David Lee Roth and an accompanying 2007-2008 tour, as well as the unexpected and somewhat controversial dismissal of longtime bassist Michael Anthony. Stepping into Michael's shoes to take over his role would've been a somewhat intimidating role for many musicians - not necessarily because of the difficulty of his bass parts, but rather because of the constant high backing vocals that he prominently delivered as part of Van Halen's signature sound. However, Wolfgang handled all parts of this role like a champ - faithfully recreating Michael's bass parts and backing vocals on every song from the band's first six albums that he performed with them (the only exception that I can think of being on the song "I'll Wait", where Wolfgang opted for F4 harmonies on the chorus in the place of Michael's D5s). Though he did not mimic Michael's rangewanking tendencies as a backing vocalist (as he was prone to frequently throwing screams into his backing vocals that could get into the upper fifth or sometimes even sixth octave), Wolfgang's voice proved to fit in very suitably with the band's vocal harmonies, and adapted very well to their sound overall.
Following the conclusion of his first tour with Van Halen in 2008, Wolfgang returned home to finish high school, and then began to work on a new studio album with the band. This album came to fruition in 2012 with the title A Different Kind of Truth, and featured a combination of brand new songs co-written with Wolfgang, and older unreleased songs from the band's early days that were rewritten and rerecorded for the purposes of the album. However, unlike on the band's earlier albums with David Lee Roth, where all lead vocals were handled by Roth and all backing vocals were handled by Eddie and Michael, this album mostly saw Roth handling his own backing vocals, and only featured occasional songs where Wolfgang did backing vocals. Instead, Wolfgang's role as a backing vocalist in the band continued to be more central to their live performances during the album's accompanying tour, which can be particularly heard on the subsequent live album that the band recorded in 2013, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert (which would later be released in 2015).
In 2012, Wolfgang also began to play as a fill-in bassist in the band Tremonti during their first tour. This led to him becoming an official member of the band in 2013, and he released two albums with them providing bass and backing vocals - Cauterize in 2015, and Dust in 2016, before parting ways with the band later in 2016. Wolfgang also toured with Van Halen for a third time in 2015, which would go on to be the band's final tour before going on hiatus later that year. In the meantime during this hiatus, Wolfgang began to work on his own solo album, for which he handled all vocals, instruments, and songwriting completely by himself. He finished recording this album in late 2020, which sadly coincided with the death of his father, Eddie, from a stroke. It was later announced that in light of Eddie's death that Van Halen would not be continuing, and that this officially marked the band's breakup. However, this loss also gave way to the official beginning of Wolfgang's solo career, as he released his first single, "Distance", a few weeks later as a tribute to his late father, under the moniker Mammoth WVH.
From there, Mammoth WVH continued to actively release new singles on a semi-monthly basis, eventually announcing a June 2021 release date for a self-titled album. The album was overall well-received, and was followed by a supporting tour opening for Guns n' Roses. Though Wolfgang had played all instruments on the album, for live performances he recruited two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer as his backing band, and focused on playing rhythm guitar, keyboards, and singing himself. As he has gone along in his solo career since then, he has made a strong point to honor and recognize his musical legacy, but also separate himself from it as an artist - as he is very determined to make his mark as his own person and artist, and not just be known as the son of a legendary rock guitarist. In my opinion, I'd say he's doing a fine job of accomplishing that so far, and I greatly look forward to seeing what other music he will bring us in Mammoth WVH over time, because the first album alone already shows a tremendous amount of promise.
