 In a 1993 promotional interview for the album , Steinman reasserts the continuation of the Bat world . " I didn 't call it Bat Out of Hell II just to identify with the first record . It really does feel like an extension of that ... It was a chance to go back to that world and explore it deeper . It always seemed incomplete because I conceived it like a film , and what would you do without Die Hard 2 ? " Meat Loaf himself was more succinct . He told an interview at the time , " We called it Bat Out of Hell II ' cos that would help it sell <unk> . " 
