Crowd of Full Pockets

Bat out of Hell was impossible to follow up. Steinman and Meat Loaf both proved it. Steinman found some other success for several years and Meat Loaf established himself as a concert attraction in Europe and Australia, but neither ever came close to the success of their first collaboration. It was definitely unfair to expect…

Following the commercial failure of Original Sin, Steinman took on a number of producing jobs while working on songs for a sequel to Bat out of Hell with Meat Loaf. During the four-year span between the release of Original Sin and Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, he only released one new song.…

As befits an album that has such a mix of brilliance and weirdness, the final song, seemingly intended as a magnum opus closing statement to the album, is a ten-minute-plus epic that has a few great parts and a few that aren’t that feel Frankensteined together. Opening with pretty close to a literal bang, “The…