Braver Than We Are, Meat Loaf's upcoming 13th studio album, marks a special reunion for the theatrical singer. Jim Steinman is producing the album, which is due out this fall. Steinman worked on Meat Loaf's 1977 classic Bat Out of Hell and its 1993 follow-up, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. The new album will be the team's first collaboration since the latter, Ultimate Classic Rock noted.
Meat Loaf shared last year that Braver Than We Are might be the end of the road for his lengthy career.
"I can't think of a better way to round out my music career than having another opportunity to work once again with songwriters I so admire," he said.
The singer shared the tentative release date via Facebook with a photo promoting the collaboration between him and Steinman. Meat Loaf also tapped bandmate Paul Crook, who produced 2011's Hell in a Handbasket, to help on the new album.
Braver Than We Are will also contain another reunion from the Bat Out of Hell days. Ellen Foley, who sang on "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," will join Meat on the title track.
Steinman wrote and composed all the tunes on Bat Out of Hell, which catapulted Meat Loaf to superstardom in the 1970s. It featured classic tracks like "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Nights)" and "All Revved Up with No Place to Go."
"I remember being amused by how overblown and crazy the album and the music were. The guitars were loud and wailing, the orchestra was dramatic and churning, the drums were epic as s**t and the singer could wail and blast like no one I had heard," Consequence of Sound wrote about the album in 2010.
