Dust to Dust is the third full-length album by the French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 power metal

Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

 band Heavenly

Heavenly (French band)

Heavenly, a power metal/neo-classical metal band from Paris, France, was formed in 1994 by vocalist Benjamin Sotto and drummer Max Pilo. They were originally a cover band and played under the name of 'Satan's Lawyer' before evolving into a full-fledged Helloween-influenced power metal outfit, and...

. It was released on January 12, 2004 by Noise Records

Noise Records (Germany)

Noise Records was a German record label founded by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach in 1983 as an expansion of his company Modern Music Records. Noise Records specialized in thrash and melodic speed metal. It was sold to the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001 and ceased any...

. The album is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 following a man seeking revenge upon the Master of Doom for transforming him into a vampire and forcing him to prey on the innocent for eternity. The album concludes with the protagonist overcoming his Master. He suffers a fatal wound, but he regains his soul and attains paradise.

Track listing

All tracks by Benjamin Sotto

Benjamin Sotto

Benjamin Sotto is a French metal singer and a member of the band Heavenly.- Biography :Benjamin Sotto was born on 22 September 1980, in Les Lilas, Paris, France....

 except where noted

1. "Ashes to Ashes..." (Pierre-Emmanuel Pélisson, Sotto) – 1:54
2. "Evil" – 6:13
3. "Lust For Life" – 6:13
4. "Victory (Creature of the Night)" – 6:51
5. "Illusion Part I" – 2:08
6. "Illusion Part II (The Call of the Wild)" – 5:02
7. "The Ritual" (Frédéric Leclercq
   Frédéric Leclercq
   Frédéric Leclercq is the bassist and backing vocalist for power metal band DragonForce and the guitarist/vocalist in his own band, Maladaptive. He is a session musician for various other bands, including George Lynch's Souls of We...
   
   ) – 0:57
8. "Keepers of the Earth" (Leclercq, Sotto) – 6:15
9. "Miracle" – 9:08
10. "Fight For Deliverance" – 6:57
11. "Hands of Darkness" (Leclercq) – 5:33
12. "Kingdom Come" – 8:11
13. "...Dust to Dust" – 4:51

The Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese edition of the album includes the song "...Dust to Dust" sung in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

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Credits

• Benjamin Sotto
  Benjamin Sotto
  Benjamin Sotto is a French metal singer and a member of the band Heavenly.- Biography :Benjamin Sotto was born on 22 September 1980, in Les Lilas, Paris, France....
  
   - vocals
• Maxence Pilo - drums
• Frédéric Leclercq
  Frédéric Leclercq
  Frédéric Leclercq is the bassist and backing vocalist for power metal band DragonForce and the guitarist/vocalist in his own band, Maladaptive. He is a session musician for various other bands, including George Lynch's Souls of We...
  
   - guitar
• Pierre-Emmanuel Pélisson - bass
• Charley Corbiaux - guitar