10 Overrated Hard Rock Albums Of The '90s

10. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993)

It is the sequel to the fourth best-selling album of all time. It was Meat Loaf's first studio album in seven years. The first collaboration between Loaf and Jim Steinman since 1984. The hype for this album was insane.

Or at least it would've been, if the duo hadn't waited 16 years to issue a follow-up to their world-conquering 1977 rock opera.

Over an hour of bombastic stadium rock where the only things longer than the songs were the song titles themselves, 'Bat Out of Hell II' is arguably, the perfect sequel, continuing in the gluttonous, over-the-top legacy of its predecessor. The lead single itself is 12 minutes long and Steinman was apparently furious over having to trim it down for radio. Even "Bohemian Rhapsody" calls it a day before 6 minutes you madman.

And much like its predecessor, it's a slog to get through it all.

75 minutes of cinematic, piano-based power ballads that just keep dragging on and on, long after the enjoyment has perished, on top of inane lyrics, more key changes than Eurovision, and the wailings of a man named after a lump of meat. It's all just so much.