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Bat Strikes Back available as a download.

We are delighted to announce our album is available as a download here at Amazon click here to download the full album . It will also be going on I tunes as well
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'The Bat Strikes Back' CD Sample Tracks

Please click on the following tracks to hear samples from the new album:

• Bat Strikes Back (1)
• Bat Strikes Back (2)
• Days When We Were Young
• Hell & Back (verse and chorus)
• Hell & Back (guitar solo)
• If I were King
• Last Survivor
• Should Have Known Better
• Without You
• Without You (end)

Our long awaited album "The Bat Strikes Back" is now complete, this has been a mammoth project and has taken Brian Healless and myself 18 months to complete. Far longer than anticipated.

On my many meetings with Meat Loaf he has encouraged me to "Do my own thing!" We have done just that and I am sure you will be blown away with the quality of the song writing and production of this album, if you liked Bat Out Of Hell 1 and 2 your going to love this album as it has captured all the elements of those albums something that was sadly missing on Meat Loafs latest release Bat Out Of Hell 3.

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"The Bat Strikes Back" gets a great review in Classic Rock Magazine!!]

Meat substitute : Quorn to be wild

Meat Loaf himself struggles without Jim Steinman. So imagine how the Meat Loaf impersonator fares.

Advised by Meat Loaf to write some original material [bit rich that Meat ] tribute act Dean Torkington has come up with The Bat Strikes Back, an album conceived in the spirit of the on-off Steinman-Loaf axis.

Torkingtons resources are modest, and  yet his devotion has produced an earnest ,rather touching record that has the heart that Meat Loaf without Steinman often lacks.

But Steinman's songs advance like Panzer divisions and they are essentially inimitable without descending to pastiche, so Torkington and his writing partner James Brian Healless are groping for another mans vision.  They capture Steinman's tics and tropes well, but cant approach the weird gothic majesty of his best work. 

That said, Steinman initially embraced Meat Loaf because the singer embodied exactly the kind of outsider/underdog that he was writing about. There is something about Dean Torkington and this record that he would admire!

To purchase this album please visit our Merchandise section where you can listen to clips and  order it via our distributor.