Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
Studio album by Meat Loaf
Released	October 20, 2006
Recorded	July 2005–July 2006
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal symphonic rock
Length	77:28
Label	Mercury (UK) Virgin (US)
Producer	Desmond Child
Meat Loaf chronology
Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010)
Singles from Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" Released: October 16, 2006 "Cry Over Me" Released: May 7, 2007

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose is the ninth studio album by Meat Loaf, and the third and final album in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy. It was released in Ireland on October 20, 2006, 29 years after Bat Out of Hell (1977), and 13 years after Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993). It was released in the UK on October 23, 2006, and in the US on October 31, 2006.

Produced by Desmond Child, it is the only Bat album not involving Jim Steinman in its production. The album was subject to a legal dispute between Meat Loaf and Steinman, who had registered the phrase "Bat Out of Hell" as a trademark and attempted to prevent the album using the phrase. In the end, seven songs that Steinman wrote for various other projects were included.

As with its predecessors, the album received mixed reviews. A tour, named The Seize the Night Tour, followed the release, concentrating upon songs from the Bat albums.^[1]