After watching his 2006 "Bat Out of Hell III" stiff (if you can call a gold album a stiff), Meat Loaf is on the prowl for a makeover. Longtime songwriter and producer Jim Steinman has been replaced with Green Day modern rock mastermind Rob Cavallo, who's assembled a bulletproof team of songwriters. Jon Bon Jovi, "American Idol's" Kara DioGuardi, and Brian May are some of the notables propping up the Loaf for this 13-song cycle about a wounded soldier. The whole exercise is a textbook case study in music marketing worthy of the best MBA program. And the music? Textbook mediocrity.

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