 Looking at how " Steinman 's old @-@ fashioned teen @-@ dream rock ' n ' roll fantasies " fits in with the music culture of 1993 , Kerrang ! suggests that it wouldn 't appeal to " Nirvana and Metallica fans , but there 's an older generation of rockers out there who will , quite properly , worship this album . " Their four @-@ star review declares that " it is a work of genius , a ready made rock classic and arguably the last word in rock operas . " In The Tip Sheet , Jonathan King labelled it a " glorious , splendid album , " celebrating Meat Loaf 's " operatically gorgeous " voice and Steinman 's " superb " songs , arrangements and production . " You 'll be blown away . Better still you 'll catch yourself openly laughing out loud at times with delight . You know what to expect yet it 's constantly better , fresher and brighter than you hope . If they had a Mercury Music Prize for American albums , this would win it hands down . " 
