The Monster Is Loose

The Monster Is Loose is the ninth studio album by Meat Loaf, released on October 31, 2006 by Exploitation Records. It was produced by James Michael and Desmond Child, who also contributed many of the songs on the album. The album sessions also contributed a notable number of covers, most notably a cover of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" and a rendition of "Tear Me Down" from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Itch.

Despite not having any connection or involvement with the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, the cover art by Julie Bell seems to continue the storyline, showing the iconic biker and the bat-like creature grappling over the fate of an angel. The artwork even copies the "Songs by Jim Steinman" moniker on the trilogy's album covers, instead saying "Songs by James Michael & Desmond Child."

The album is available in two formats, a one-disc standard edition, and a deluxe edition with a bonus EP called Decadent Wish, which contains additional songs recorded during the sessions, especially covers of Mercury Blues, Black Betty and Gimme Shelter.

The album was the most successful Meat Loaf album with no involvement by Jim Steinman, receiving generally positive reviews and respectable sales figures.

Track listing
-Monstro/Alive (Desmond Child/James Michael/Holly Knight/Andrea Remanda/Elena Casals)

-Couldn't Have Said It Better (Michael/Nikki Sixx)

-Did I Say That? (Michael)

-Tear Me Down  (Stephen Trask)

-Blind As A Bat (Michael/Child)

-Cry Over Me   (Diane Warren)

-Why Isn't That Enough   (Jo Davidson)

-The Monster Is Loose (Child/Sixx/John 5)

-If God Could Talk (Child/Marti Frederiksen)

-Whore (Marcus Blake/Jason MacKenroth/Jim Wilson)

-Man Of Steel  (Michael/Sixx)

-Love You Out Loud   (Michael/Sixx)

-Testify   (Kevin Griffin)

-What About Love (Child/Frederiksen/Russ Irwin/John Gregory)

-Forever Young    (Bob Dylan)

Decadent Wish EP (bonus disc in deluxe edition, also available as separate release on same day as main album)

-Unsaid  (Diane Warren)

-Blind As A Bat (Remix)

-Because Of You  (Steve Balsamo/Rick Jude)

-Decadent Wish (Shelley Peiken/Jud Friedman/Michael Duff)

-Black Betty   (Trad./Huddie Ledbetter)

-Mercury Blues  (K.C. Douglas/Robert L. Gettins)

-Gimme Shelter (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)