I always think of the Original Sin album as one of Steinman’s career highlights, but it’s also rather bizarrely choppy. The best songs on the album are amazing, but it’s rather strange that he follows the clear single, the song that everyone expected to be an enormous hit (and it was, eventually, just not in…

The Original Sin album is bizarre. Steinman is clearly just given free reign to do as he pleases here, which is how we get a sequence like “original song, Doors cover, classical interlude, music-less speech, original song.” That he’s doing it under a “group” name that he invented for three real singers and one fictitious…

“Requiem Metal” is a recording of a short excerpt from Giuseppi Verdi’s “Messa de Requieum.” It’s a famous bit of music (one that parts of “The Storm” back on Bad for Good closely mirrored) and this version “produced and arranged” by Steinman doesn’t stand out at all versus other versions I have heard. It’s dramatic,…