On a beautiful day in the year 1994 two friends, namely Benjamin Sotto and Maxence Pilo, sat in a cafe enjoying a drink and decide to become musicians. Max tries his luck with the drums and Ben starts singing, guitar and keyboard playing. Inspired by bands like The Doors, they found their own band called SATAN'S LAWYER and start to play cover versions, but Ben very soon grew tired of that and started composing his own songs. The rock legends got boring as well and the guys started looking for other idols like Guns' N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius, Helloween and Angra and finally changed the band’s name into Heavenly. A promising career was about to start...
Finding additional members proved to be difficult. Various auditions showed that those in question either didn't know how to handle their instruments properly or they were of the opinion that metal was dead and that nobody would like to listen to music like that of Helloween anymore. Staying true to their cause Ben and Max finally came up with guitarist Anthony Parker. They recorded their first demo (‘Miracle’, ‘Riding Through Hell’ and ‘Million Ways’). The following is already history: Noise Records added the demo to the "Be Your Own Label Boss" section on their website and received overwhelming reactions.
After another line-up change (Chris Savourey replaces Anthony on guitars and Laurent Jean is the new bass player), the band enters Horus Sound Studios in Hannover in February 2000 to start drum recordings under Piet Sielck ’s (Iron Savior) guidance. When these were completed they headed for Piet’s studio in Hamburg to record their debut album Coming From The Sky, with both Piet and Kai Hansen as guest musicians. Even though the press didn’t care much about the album, it turned out to be Noise’s bestselling debut in ages. And before Stratovarius started paying attention to the band and eventually took them along on their INFINITE TOUR throughout Europe, the band played the French HARD ROCK FESTIVAL opening up for Symphony X. Shortly before they hit the road with Stratovarius, Heavenly underwent in another line-up change. Pierre-Emmanuel Pélisson replaced Laurent Jean on bass and Frédéric Leclercq joined Heavenly on keyboards.
One final line-up change (Chris Savourey leaves the band and Frédéric takes over the guitar) and the band was ready to record their second album. Under the watchful eyes of Tommy Hansen the new songs were recorded in Paris and Denmark. Sign Of The Winner was released on September 24th, 2001.
Their third album Dust To Dust has been just released on January 2004.
