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''Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell'' is a 1993 studio album by Meat Loaf and was written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was released sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album ''Bat Out of Hell''. The album reached number 1 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Three tracks were released as singles, including "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", which reached number 1 in 28 countries. The album was released by Virgin Records outside of North America, where it was released by MCA. The third part of the ''Bat'' trilogy, ''Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose'', was released in 2006. Just like the first album of the trilogy, ''Bat Out of Hell II'' was a huge commercial success and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. ==History== In the midst of the success of ''Bat Out of Hell'', desperate for a follow-up, management and the record company put pressure on Steinman to stop touring in order to write a follow-up, provisionally titled ''Renegade Angel''. In a 1981 ''BBC Rock Hour Special'' interview, Jim Steinman recalls the writing process. I started writing what I felt was ''Bat Out of Hell part 2'', definitely like ''The Godfather part I'' and ''part 2'', that's how I saw it. I wanted to do a continuation and I wanted to do an album that went even further and that was more extreme, if possible, which a lot of people felt wasn't possible but I just wanted to see if I could make a record that was even more heroic because that's what I thought of it ... ''Bat Out of Hell'' to me was ultimately very heroic though it was funny ... and I wanted to do one that to me would be even more heroic and more epic and a little more operatic and passionate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jimsteinman.com/bbc.htm )〕 In a 1993 promotional interview for the album, Steinman reasserts the continuation of the ''Bat'' world. "I didn't call it ''Bat Out of Hell II'' just to identify with the first record. It really does feel like an extension of that... It was a chance to go back to that world and explore it deeper. It always seemed incomplete because I conceived it like a film, and what would you do without ''Die Hard 2''?" Meat Loaf himself was more succinct. He told an interview at the time, "We called it Bat Out of Hell II 'cos that would help it sell shitloads." Steinman rejoined Meat Loaf and the band for a live performance in Toronto, Canada in 1978 with the intention of going through the songs for ''Bat II'' after the show. However, someone broke into their dressing rooms during the show and stole several possessions, including the new lyric book. Then, Meat Loaf lost his voice and was unable to record ''Renegade Angel''. Steinman says "he sounded literally like the little girl in ''The Exorcist''... like a dragon trying to sing—it was a horrifying sound." Steinman "kept writing the music to ''Bat Out of Hell part 2''... my sequel."〔 Not being able to "bear for people not to hear those songs," Steinman recorded the album, retitled ''Bad for Good'', as a solo project, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some songs. Four songs from ''Bad for Good'' were included on ''Bat Out of Hell II''.〔"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"; "Out of the Frying Pan"; "Love and Death and an American Guitar" (retitled "Wasted Youth") and "Lost Boys and Golden Girls"〕 In 1989, Steinman formed all-female vocal group Pandora's Box. The album, ''Original Sin'', was a commercial flop, but featured two songs which would also appear on ''Bat II''.〔"Good Girls Go to Heaven" and "It Just Won't Quit"〕 Meat Loaf says "Jim put "It Just Won't Quit" on ''Original Sin'' without telling me. I could have strangled him."〔 By the time Meat Loaf set about finally recording ''Bat II'' in the early 90s, the industry's enthusiasm for the project had waned. According to the artist's then manager, Tommy Manzi, in an interview with HitQuarters, "That project was considered a joke as far as the industry was concerned," and Manzi's management company Left Bank were "laughed at" for attempting to revive the fortunes of a well-established act rather than focus on "the next hip band".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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