13th Studio Album On Double LP! Features "Train Of Love" and "Going All The Way!"
Grammy Award-winning musician and acclaimed film, TV and stage actor Meat Loaf, releases his highly anticipated album, "Braver Than We Are" for 429 Records. Working closely again with longtime collaborator Jim Steinman a key to the magic of multi-platinum selling albums Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell Meat has recorded ten songs in tandem with Steinman, producer Paul Crook and The Neverland Express which includes John Miceli (drums), Paul Crook (guitars, loops, synths), Randy Flowers (guitars, vocals), David Luther (sax, B3 organ, strings, horn arrangements), Justin Avery (piano, synths, strings, backing vocal arrangements), Danny Miranda (bass), Stacy Michelle (vocals) and Cian Coey (vocals). Guest musician Ricky Medlocke provided the slide guitar solo on Train of Love.
The tracks on Braver Than We Are were written by Steinmanfeaturing the first song he ever wrote in a storied career to the most recent. While Crook produced the album, Steinman acted as creative consultant throughout the recording process working alongside Paul and Meat from beginning to end sending suggestions, adding verses and contributing opinions on every aspect. The first single to radio, Going All The Way, showcases a reunion with vocalists Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito decades after their first performances on the smash hit Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
In a career spanning over four decades, Braver Than We Are is Meat Loafs fourth album featuring songs exclusively written by Jim Steinman. With a painting featuring Meat and Jim together for the first time gracing the cover, the album hearkens back to the hugely successful Meat-Steinman collaborations Bat Out of Hell (1977) and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993), which together sold over 67 million units. Braver Than We Are is a testament to Meats artistic rapport with Steinman. The songwriters strikingly vivid style matched with Meats incomparable talents not to mention his wit and grandiosity, results in the two successfully connecting with audiences on an epic scale.
"Working once again with longtime collaborator Jim Steinman, the ten-track LP is Meat Loaf's first outing for Nippon Columbia subsidiary 429 Records. Produced by Anthrax's Paul Crook, Braver Than We Are includes the opulent single 'Goin All the Way,' which features singers Karla DeVito and Ellen Foley, the latter of whom sang on the Loaf classic, 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light.'" - James Christopher Monger, allmusic.com
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Mastered by Maor Applebaum at Maor Applebaum Mastering
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Who Needs the Young
2. Going All the Way (a song in 6 movements) (feat. Ellen Folley and Karla DeVito)
Side 2:
3. Speaking in Tongues (feat. Stacey Michelle)
4. Loving You Is A Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It) (feat. Stacey Michelle)
Side 3:
5. Souvenirs
6. Only When I Feel
7. More
Side 4:
8. Godz
9. Skull of Your Country (feat. Clan Cloey)
10. Train of Love
Grammy Award-winning musician and acclaimed film, TV and stage actor Meat Loaf, releases his highly anticipated album, "Braver Than We Are" for 429 Records. Working closely again with longtime collaborator Jim Steinman a key to the magic of multi-platinum selling albums Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell Meat has recorded ten songs in tandem with Steinman, producer Paul Crook and The Neverland Express which includes John Miceli (drums), Paul Crook (guitars, loops, synths), Randy Flowers (guitars, vocals), David Luther (sax, B3 organ, strings, horn arrangements), Justin Avery (piano, synths, strings, backing vocal arrangements), Danny Miranda (bass), Stacy Michelle (vocals) and Cian Coey (vocals). Guest musician Ricky Medlocke provided the slide guitar solo on Train of Love.
The tracks on Braver Than We Are were written by Steinmanfeaturing the first song he ever wrote in a storied career to the most recent. While Crook produced the album, Steinman acted as creative consultant throughout the recording process working alongside Paul and Meat from beginning to end sending suggestions, adding verses and contributing opinions on every aspect. The first single to radio, Going All The Way, showcases a reunion with vocalists Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito decades after their first performances on the smash hit Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
In a career spanning over four decades, Braver Than We Are is Meat Loafs fourth album featuring songs exclusively written by Jim Steinman. With a painting featuring Meat and Jim together for the first time gracing the cover, the album hearkens back to the hugely successful Meat-Steinman collaborations Bat Out of Hell (1977) and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993), which together sold over 67 million units. Braver Than We Are is a testament to Meats artistic rapport with Steinman. The songwriters strikingly vivid style matched with Meats incomparable talents not to mention his wit and grandiosity, results in the two successfully connecting with audiences on an epic scale.
"Working once again with longtime collaborator Jim Steinman, the ten-track LP is Meat Loaf's first outing for Nippon Columbia subsidiary 429 Records. Produced by Anthrax's Paul Crook, Braver Than We Are includes the opulent single 'Goin All the Way,' which features singers Karla DeVito and Ellen Foley, the latter of whom sang on the Loaf classic, 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light.'" - James Christopher Monger, allmusic.com
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Mastered by Maor Applebaum at Maor Applebaum Mastering
Selections:
Side 1:
1. Who Needs the Young
2. Going All the Way (a song in 6 movements) (feat. Ellen Folley and Karla DeVito)
Side 2:
3. Speaking in Tongues (feat. Stacey Michelle)
4. Loving You Is A Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It) (feat. Stacey Michelle)
Side 3:
5. Souvenirs
6. Only When I Feel
7. More
Side 4:
8. Godz
9. Skull of Your Country (feat. Clan Cloey)
10. Train of Love
