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Meat Loaf working with Lil John and Chuck D on new album

by Tyler Munro

Meat Loaf is apparently working on three (!!!) new albums and one of them, Hell In A Handbasket, will apparently feature guest raps from Chuck D and Loaf’s (???) Celebrity Apprentice co-competitor Lil’ John. Naturally, he says its his most personal album ever.

The album, which Meat Loaf says is “about how I feel the world’s gone to hell in a handbasket,” currently has 9 songs completed, which if we go with tradition means the entire thing will probably run about three hours long.

Hell in a Handbasket is expected out sometime in February, presumably after (we hope) the singer’s upcoming holiday album Hot Christmas. Then maybe he’ll take some time off—Meat Loaf has fainted twice in the past week at concerts in Pittsburgh and New Jersey, neither of which happened because someone allegedly stole his paint but instead because of asthma and exhaustion—before getting to work on that previously mentioned third album. [via NME]