All In Good Time

Album: The End (2025)
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  • "All in Good Time" closes The End, Mammoth's third album, and serves as the emotional resolution to the album's central theme. Wolfgang Van Halen has explained that the record traces a journey through different ideas of what "the end" could mean: "The Spell" is about losing someone close to you, "The End" is about accepting it, and "All in Good Time" is the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel viewpoint - seeing the end as a good thing. On the Songfacts Podcast, he said it's "a positive exploration of what the end could be."
  • The album's anxious tone was partly shaped by a panic attack Wolfgang suffered on a plane to Mexico in September 2024, while Mammoth were on their way to play stadium shows with Metallica. "I'd never in my life been freezing but completely drenched in sweat," he told Louder Sound. "It f--ked me up. I think that headspace - I'm already an anxious person - bled into the whole writing process."
  • Like every Mammoth recording, Wolfgang wrote the song and handled all the instruments and vocals. He recorded it at 5150 Studios in Los Angeles, the facility he inherited from his late father, Eddie Van Halen. The album was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette.

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