Continuing the theme of being an older Steinman song given its first wide English-language release, “Speaking in Tongues” was written for the Cry-Baby musical that eventually came out without any Steinman contributions. It had not been recorded anywhere before this release and seemingly had no known performances, so it’s about as close as we get…

Like the album opener, this song is not entirely new, but this time there is some re-arranging going on. This song is essentially a re-imagining of “Braver than We Are” from Dance of the Vampires (which was itself a re-working and translation of “Draussen Ist Freiheit” from Tanz der Vampire, of course). Don Black, who…

Steinman seemingly suffered more health problems after Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and so even though at some point he and Meat Loaf patched things up, they didn’t actually work together again. In 2016, with his voice ragged and his career having descended from major rock star to cheap Fox News…