Track Listing

1. The Monster Is Loose
2. Blind As a Bat
3. It's All Coming Back To Me Now
4. Bad For Good
5. Cry Over Me
6. In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King
7. Monstro
8. Alive
9. If God Could Talk
10. If It Ain't Broke Break It
11. What About Love
12. Seize the Night
13. The Future Ain't What It Used To Be
14. Cry To Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3166 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The long-awaited third record in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, The Monster Is Loose, wears bombast, pretension, and pyrotechnics proudly on its album sleeve and across the bulging disc's 14 tracks. More a pop orchestral mishmash than a well-defined rock opus, Bat III is dark, seemingly hopeless at times, and über dramatic. Oddly enough, that's also its saving grace. Meat Loaf and company create a great escape into the realm of grand theatricality, with a bunch of radio-friendly rock tunes that sound 20 years old, and several lyrically memorable AOR ballads to sustain it all the way to Broadway. With collaborator (and occasional defendant in Meat Loaf lawsuits) Jim Steinman, producers Desmond Child and Todd Rundgren, the Meat man consistently has the big sound booming and his despair and his rage on to the point that listeners may feel his pain a little too often. Bat III ain't for sissies. Balanced by the powerful female voices of Marion Raven, Patti Russo, and Jennifer Hudson; along with guest musicians and songwriting help from Steve Vai, Marilyn Manson's John 5, Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, Queen's Brian May, and others; Meat Loaf's Monster has roared the unlikely rock star back to life like a bat out of Baghdad. --Martin Keller

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Album Description
Bat Out of Hell III is Meat Loaf's long-awaited 3rd installment of the most successful rock music series of all time, with the two previous albums selling a total of 45 million copies around the world. Bat Out of Hell, released in 1977 and produced by Todd Rundgren, is the third best-selling album of all time, with 30 million copies sold worldwide, featuring such Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman standards as "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and the show-stopping "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights."

The Steinman-produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which came out in 1993, has sold more than 15 million, with the classic "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," earning Meat Loaf a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance.

Bat Out of Hell III continues the epic story in grand fashion, with contributions once again from Steinman and Rundgren, and produced by hitmaker Desmond Child. Bat Out of Hell III marks the triumphant return of the Bat Out of Hell saga, completing this remarkable trilogy!

Customer Reviews

An OK Entry
This third entry in the Bat Out Of Hell albums is OK. In my opinion there was really only good entry "The Monster Is Loose." But over all is is good.

timing is everything...
This album stunned me the first time I listened to it. I have been following Meat's recording career since I was 13 years old (when Bat Out of Hell 1 was released). This new Bat has to rank as one of his best records ever...second only to the untoppable 1978 original.

Why then, did it get almost no radio airplay? Why are sales nowhere near the heights of Bat II, released back in 1993? I can only think this: like most things in life, sucess only comes from a perfect mixture of talent and fortunate timing. When Bat II was released it was shortly after the classic Bat Out of Hell had its initial CD release, and was selling like crazy again. This boosted popular interest in Meat Loaf right before the release of the sequel. It was the perfect storm.

I enjoyed Bat II, but I really feel the new Bat III is superior. The only stumble on the new album (my opinion) is the title track; it is just not the right style for Meat Loaf's vocals.

But after that...oh, my! From the rocking "In the Land of the Pig, The Butcher is King", to the victorious "Alive!", to the poignant "If God Could Talk", to the heart-rending "The Future Ain't What it Used to Be" this record is a tour de force!

If you love Meat Loaf -- buy it. If you have never heard a Meat Loaf album before, start here. It's that good.

The Man who makes Gold
First off Nikki Sixx helped write this album...anything Nikki touches turns to Gold. Motley Crue wouldn't be were they are if it wasn't for Nikki. For all of you morons out there...Tommy Lee isn't what makes Motley Crue. Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars do all the writting. i haven't heard this album but I bet it's great due to Meatloaf's GREAT voice and Nikki's writting.