Heavenly

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Official Heavenly Timeline:
The biography of a band and its rising is always a hazardous experience, made of trials and errors, musical evolutions, line up changings, without forget all the inevitables bad experiences absolutely necessary for a band which is aspiring to success. So, to be clear, we will only retain from our way the worthy of interest stages which have stood out in the bands life.
1994 : First meeting of the two founder members : Ben Sotto (current singer of the band) and Max Pilo (first drummer) At this period, the musical influences were: Guns 'n' Roses, Helloween, Stratovarius, Angra, Rhapsody...
1998 : After a lot of work, Heavenly gets its own personality, its style and record its first demo of three songs which have been sent to many record companies.
Noise Records decides to broadcast the demo on their website for the competition "Be your own label boss". People reaction is immediate and Heavenly goes out of this competition as the great winner.
1999 : Noise Records offers a deal to the band.
February 2000 : Recording sessions of the first album in Hannover.
- Title: Coming from the Sky
- Date of release : May 2000
- Production : Piet Sielck (Iron Savior) (for Noise Records)
- Studios : Horus Studio & Powerhouse studio
- Special guest : Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray) and Piet Sielk (Iron Savior) vocals on the song Time Machine.
November 24, 2000 : Concert in Tours (France) opening for Symphony X.
November 25, 2000 : Participation to the Hard Rock Magazine festival at the Elysée Montmartre (Paris).
Heavenly received an exceptional reception from the 1600 fans who were here that day.
December 1, 2000 : Heavenly is chosen to be the Stratovarius opener for the "Infinite Tour" all over France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Czech Republic.
March/June 2001 : Recording sessions of the second album in Horsen (Danemark) and in Paris.
- Title: Sign of the Winner
- Date of release: September 2001
- Production : Tommy Hansen (Helloween, Pretty Maids) and Heavenly (for Sanctuary/Noise Records)
- Studios: Jailhouse studio & Heavenly studio
- Charts position: 132 in France (source IFOP/SNEP)
December 2001 : Heavenly is the opener for the Edguy's Mandrake Tour during 6 weeks.
Assessment: 26 gigs all over Europe, 10 countries (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Finland) in front of 30,000 fans all along the tour.
February 2002 : Hard Rock Magazine awards (French TV show).
Hard Rock Magazines readers votes and Heavenly receives the best french band award for 2001.
Then, its time for the Rock Hard Magazines readers to elect the best french band for 2001 and once again, Heavenly is chosen.
August 2002 : Heavenly plays at the Wacken Open Air.
March/August 2003 : Recording sessions of the third album in Hannover, Wolfsburg (Germany) and Hyeres (France).
- Title: Dust to Dust
- Date of release: January 2004
- Production: Ferdy Doernberg, Sacha Paeth (Angra, Rhapsody) and Heavenly (for Sanctuary/Noise Records)
- Studios: Droehnwerk studio, Heavenly studio & Gate studio
- Charts position: 135 in France (source IFOP/SNEP) 71 in Finland (source YLE)
February 13 2004 : The band gives its « Dust to Dust premiere » in London in a totally jumpacked « Underworld » (a lot of people stayed in front of the venue without ticket...)
November 2005 : Avalon Marquee records offers a deal to the band for Asia.
August 2006 : 13bis Records/Sony-BMG offers a deal to the band for France.
February/July 2006 : Recording sessions, mix & master of the fourth album in Marseille, Hyères (France), Miami (U.S.A.), Wolfburg (Germany) & Helsinki (Finland)
- Title : Virus
- Date of release : September/October & November 2006 (depends on country)
- Production : Philip Colodetti & Heavenly (for Avalon Marquee records)
- Studios : Soul Spirit Studio, North Miami Studio, Heavenlys Studio, Gate Studio & Finnvox Studios
News:
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Great news !!! - 10.14.2006
Hi everyone !!!
Great news for France : Virus will be available the 13th of november (XIII BIS Records / Sony-BMG) get ready my friends !!!
Another interesting thing : on its two first weeks of exploitation, Virus kicked the 105th rank in the Japanese Top Albums Charts.
Terrific ... !!!
Thanx to all our creazy fans in Asia !!!
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeerz !
And C U later alligators ...
Charley
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Virus cds !!! - 10.3.2006
Hello,
The VIRUS' cds (japanese version) will be back on stock soon! As you have seen, the cds were quickly sold out!
For those who have ordered the cds, we have started to send the packages.
So, check your mail-box these next days, and for the others: check the website to see when the cds will be available .... with brand new gifts!
See ya
Best regards
.: Main Website :.
Kowabounga !!! - 2006/09/14
Hi everyone! ! !
Welcome, bienvenu, bienvenido, willkommen, benvenuto...to our new website ! ! ! (if you are not reading this from MySpace...)
Aniki the webmaster has done an amazing work, don't you think so?
But, have you seen what I saw? It seems that a video clip from a band called Heavenly is available just above (in the webpage)...HOLY SHIT ! ! ! that's incredible ! ! !
Oh! and another thing: from now onward, youll be able to visit the Heavenly website always accompanied by the "Heavenly music player" (with new MP3 but shuuuuuut! ! !)...lovely ! ! ! isnt it ?
So...a video clip, new pix, new MP3, new design, new album, new website, new line up...is it christmas ? ? ? It seems to be ! ! !
Ah, ah ! ! ! But its time for me to go folks
C U later alligators ! ! !
Your worst friend,
Charley
Related Sites:
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Forums:
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- Official Website Forum
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