We Have A Release Date...
Aug. 4th, 2006 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicaddict...after all the harranguing, petty arguments and yes/no/yes situations, we have (courtesy of a heads up from BBCi) a solid answer.
Bat Out Of Hell III comes out on October 31st.
Yes, Jim Steinman is writing the majority of the songs.
Yes, Todd Rundgren is still doing his thing with backing vocals.
No, Patti Russo is not going to be featured. You aren't going to believe this, but the new duettist is Marion Raven, one half of erstwhile Norwegian teenie-boppers M2M.
Several of the songs are reworkings of original Steinman goodness. Bad For Good was originally on the sequel to Bat before Meatloaf lost his voice and Jim recorded a solo album (he's good, have a listen) that included it. It got rather lost in shuffle once Bat II came out, but is classic Jim and deserves to be heard by a wider audience.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now was released by Pandora's Box - Jim's pet (and gutsy as fuck) girl band - in the eighties, during which the singer (in this case Elaine Caswell, the four principals sharing lead duties) repeatedly passed out trying to sing the high notes. Refusing Jim's offer to drop it a tone or two, she went through retake after retake until she managed to stand up, and received applause all round upon completion. It was more famously (and, indeed, unfortunately) covered by Celine Dion a decade later - look to Meat and Marion (still can't believe that) to restore respectability to a bloody good song.
However, most impressively, The Future Ain't What It Used To Be - eleven minutes of truly histrionic teen angsting par excellence - is on there. Another one originally done by Pandora's Box, this, more than any other track, should allay any fears that this will not be a welcome homecoming to what Meat fans know and love. All signs are that despite Desmond Child's best efforts to calm him down, theatrical teen angsting will be once again running wild round the world come All Hallows Eve.
All I can say is it's about bloody time.
Bat Out Of Hell III comes out on October 31st.
Yes, Jim Steinman is writing the majority of the songs.
Yes, Todd Rundgren is still doing his thing with backing vocals.
No, Patti Russo is not going to be featured. You aren't going to believe this, but the new duettist is Marion Raven, one half of erstwhile Norwegian teenie-boppers M2M.
Several of the songs are reworkings of original Steinman goodness. Bad For Good was originally on the sequel to Bat before Meatloaf lost his voice and Jim recorded a solo album (he's good, have a listen) that included it. It got rather lost in shuffle once Bat II came out, but is classic Jim and deserves to be heard by a wider audience.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now was released by Pandora's Box - Jim's pet (and gutsy as fuck) girl band - in the eighties, during which the singer (in this case Elaine Caswell, the four principals sharing lead duties) repeatedly passed out trying to sing the high notes. Refusing Jim's offer to drop it a tone or two, she went through retake after retake until she managed to stand up, and received applause all round upon completion. It was more famously (and, indeed, unfortunately) covered by Celine Dion a decade later - look to Meat and Marion (still can't believe that) to restore respectability to a bloody good song.
However, most impressively, The Future Ain't What It Used To Be - eleven minutes of truly histrionic teen angsting par excellence - is on there. Another one originally done by Pandora's Box, this, more than any other track, should allay any fears that this will not be a welcome homecoming to what Meat fans know and love. All signs are that despite Desmond Child's best efforts to calm him down, theatrical teen angsting will be once again running wild round the world come All Hallows Eve.
All I can say is it's about bloody time.
