Meat Loaf releases a new single

[mako_kimura]

Meat Loaf has released a single of a new song called "The Monster Is Loose". It features classic artwork on the cover, and the song itself sports a slightly modern sound with heavy guitars and Meat Loaf's classic operatic vocals. Check it out

[bueno bob]

October 31st 2006...street date of "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose"...

[mako_kimura]

Damn, I thought part II was it. Guess not

[Soul Reaper]

next it'll be "Bat Out of Hell (Digitally Re-mastered)"

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
next it'll be "Bat Out of Hell (Digitally Re-mastered)"

Already done it, I think....

Actually, I don't think Jim Steinman's involved in Bat Out of Hell III, so we'll see where it goes...

Following tradition, it'll debut somewhere at the top of the charts, all Bat Out of Hell albums do.

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by bueno bob
Already done it, I think....

Actually, I don't think Jim Steinman's involved in Bat Out of Hell III, so we'll see where it goes...

Following tradition, it'll debut somewhere at the top of the charts, all Bat Out of Hell albums do.

"Bat Out of Hell IV: Tired of It All".....

mind you, I do like some of ML's songs.....he's got a good voice....

[bueno bob]

I've always been a sucker for Broadway rock and conceptual stuff...

Bat Out of Hell will always be one of my top 20 albums of all time...

[Soul Reaper]

Like a bat out of hell
Ill be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell Ill be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell Ill be gone when the morning comes
When the day is done
And the sun goes down
And the moonlights shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
Ill come crawling on back to you

[binnie]

Originally posted by bueno bob
Already done it, I think....

Actually, I don't think Jim Steinman's involved in Bat Out of Hell III, so we'll see where it goes...

No he's not. He refused to be part of it and as he owns the name "Bat out of Hell" refused to ML use it intially.

Meat then launched a huge lawsuit claiming damages to his future earnings.

I guess he won...

[bueno bob]

Well, anybody can write Broadway rock that sounds like Bat Out of Hell...Christ, I can write Steinmann as well as he can. It doesn't take much, just a sonic bombardment, really...a lot of musicians do it today...Jon Oliva Inc. and Andrew W.K. leap to mind immediately, and there's a hundred others at a minimum...

Technically, Steinmann doesn't have to be involved with the album, per se - most of Meat's not Steinmann stuff has been fairly good, anyway, IMO.

If it goes #1, Jim'll probably regret his decision...but honestly, I really don't think it's going to in this day and age.

Again, I said the same thing about Bat Out of Hell II a month before it's release and was I ever wrong...

So...we'll see...

[Nickdfresh]

I like Meatloaf, and I'm a little ashamed to admit that. But there is no way in hell it's gonna' work without Steinmann.

[Little Texan]

Can't he come up with an album title other than "Bat Out Of Hell"? "Bat Out Of Hell III" is bordering on the absurd. The next one will be called "Bat Out Of Hell IV, The Hell With All This Hell Shit".

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Can't he come up with an album title other than "Bat Out Of Hell"? "Bat Out Of Hell III" is bordering on the absurd. The next one will be called "Bat Out Of Hell IV, The Hell With All This Hell Shit".

Bat Out of Hell came out in '77, I think...Bat Out of Hell II in '93, Bat Out of Hell - Live With the Melbourne Symphony in '04...and now Bat Out of Hell III in '06.

Between all of those, he's recorded Dead Ringer in '81, Midnight at the Lost and Found in '83, Bad Attitude in '84, Blind Before I Stop in '86, Live at Wembley in '87, Welcome to the Neighborhood in '96, Live Around the World in '96, The Very Best Of in '98 (I count that because of the new material on it), VH1 Storytellers in '99, and Couldn't Have Said it Better in '03.

With a break between '77 and '81, Meat Loaf's been making music almost consistantly since 1977 and the "Bat Out of Hell" series of titles is just something he revisits every 13-15 years or so.

He's done plenty of non Bat Out of Hell albums over the years, actually. Mostly it's people who really aren't too familiar with his music that think the Bat Out of Hell series is all he does...

Admittedly, those albums are without a doubt his biggest hits...

[Douglas T.]

Don't let your meat loaf!


I like Meatloaf!

Is the chick from American Idol going to tour with him? She was toasty hot when she sang with him on TV!

[Kilkmaru]

Are you sure Steinmann isn't involved? Billboard says he wrote 7 tracks

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002915697