Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell

(PURE MUSIC, 1993)

If the success of the first Bat seemed unlikely in ’77, what hope (in hell) would Bat II have during the height of alt.rock?

The last thing anybody wanted in 1993 was to hear some bullshit album from creaky old dinosaurs like Meat and Steinman. And yet the constantly feuding duo pulled it together and created their second-greatest album, a collection of truly breathtaking rock’n’roll grandeur, including the most beautifully absurd and almost grotesquely over-inflated power ballad perhaps of all time, I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That). The rest of the album is just as nuts. What a comeback!