Braver Than We Are

This 2016 album reunited the theatrical Bat Out of Hell rocker with songwriter/producer Jim Steinman—and the results are suitably Wagnerian. Opening opus “Who Needs the Young” is vaudeville with volume, while soul sisters Ellen Foley and Karla DeVito wail along with Meat Loaf against the thrilling wall-of-sound production of "Going All the Way Is Just the Start (A Song in 6 Movements)."