Wolfgang Van Halen says he tends to write his songs from personal experiences.

In an interview, the Mammoth WVH frontman said, “When I write my lyrics, while they mostly come from personal experiences, I like to write them from a perspective that anybody can insert themselves into and get their own meaning from it.”

He also called his writing approach, “more social than anything.”

He said, “It all comes from personal experience and sort of reflection or almost therapy to a certain extent, just kind of getting things out that I couldn’t otherwise. I think most of the time when I write, it’s kind of at this amalgamation of people that have done me wrong, sort of this entity of people just joined into one that I kind of write at. But yeah, I think in this one, it was way more introspective and darker. It’s much more of an inward album, as opposed to the first one.”

Listen to the results of his creative process in his second solo album, Mammoth II, which was released on August 4th. Similar to his first album, Mammoth WVH, Wolfgang plays every instrument on the album.

Mammoth WVH is currently on tour and will perform at the Ace of Spades in Sacramento, California on August 26th. Find more information here.