Band:	Heavenly
Album:	Dust To Dust
Style:	Power metal
Release date:	January 12, 2004
A review by:	Malcolm

01. Ashes To Ashes...
02. Evil
03. Lust For Life
04. Victory (Creatures Of The Night)
05. Illusion part I
06. Illusion part II (The Call Of The Wild)
07. The Ritual
08. Keepers Of The Earth
09. Miracle
10. Fight For Deliverance
11. Hands Of Darkness
12. Kingdom Come
13. ... Dust To Dust

I have always had high thoughts about Heavenly, even if I never heard a whole album, it might be because of those songs I heard, that they held a really high quality, or maybe because of the fact that they had a song with Kai Hansen on vocals (in a duet with Benjamin Sotto).
Anyway, enough of that now.

Heavenly here releases their third album since the debut in 2000 ("Coming From the Sky")
And after the successor ("Sign of the Winner") in 2001 it have be quiet from the Heavenly camp, until now, in January 2004 when the third instalment reached they stores.
"Dust to Dust" is it named and this time, Vampires will be the ear candy.

When I first listen to this new album, I had quite high expectations, and as we all know, that's not good when you're about to listen to an album, you to often will be disappointed.
And yes, I was disappointed to, very disappointed to be honest and I putted the record aside for a quite long while.
But a month (maybe longer) later I once again putted it back into my stereo and hope it would sound better, and DAMN, I was really surprised.
How could I don't like this? It's still a mystery for me (it might be because I didn't have any expectations this time, I don't know).

I'm very sure now, that Heavenly have taken the throne as the best band from France (France have a lot of good bands, so it's a very fine title Heavenly got there), and they have for sure taken some places in the top list of the whole world, this release is a Masterpiece, don't doubt that.
This is an album for the top-10 of 2004 for sure, it might be the no.1, it's so freaky good.

It's so impossible to pick a specific song and write about it, because if you choose one, you will directly want to choose another one, but if you choose that one, you want another, it's such a good record.
But I'll try to take some of the best songs, but all of them are good, I mean ALL.

Illusion Part II, a quite fast and almost Gamma Rayis song, but with the vampire and Heavenly touch, and the "Riding, Riding for tomorrow" part is so damn catchy.
And the chorus part is one of the best I ever heard, Sotto have really show me that he is one of the best singers we have here on our planet.

Miracle is another song, masterful song by Heavenly.
It's originally a remake of an song that appeared on their Demo "Coming From the Sky Demo" from 1998, and I'm impressed that they could do a song like this back then, unbelievable.
The chorus part, once again, is the top of the song, the song fades a bit and Sotto brings forward his emotional way of singing, brilliant.

But as I said, it's impossible to give those two songs credits without give all the other songs the same credit.
And the production is crystal clear, it's hard to find an album these days that have bad production, but it's hard to find one, that have better production than this.
And guess who it is that have produce it?
Sasha Path of course.

But unfortunately I know that this album will not get the attention it deserves, it's a shame, it really is.
Do yourself a favour, and get this, you won't regret it.
With this wonderful songs, and powerful drums, incredible guitars (yes, Frédéric Leclercq can really play, I promise), unbelievable vocals, you will love it.

Favourite Songs: Can't help you here, I have to say All, because something else to say, don't exist.