Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose

After yet another legal fallout with songwriter Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf was forced to turn to Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx, producer Desmond Child and others for most of the material on the latest Bat installment. Consequently, there’s a surplus of histrionic heavy-metal numbers and an absence of Steinman’s usual arena-opera epics. Apart from the anthemic rocker “Bad for Good” and the power ballad “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” this sequel—a turkey of truly monstrous proportions—simply sucks the big one.