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Kekal

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Avant-garde and alternative approach to various expressions of rock, metal and electronic music. For more info about Kekal, please visit Kekal official website: www.kekal.org

Envisaged

Kekal

13th full-length album, originally released in 2022. Included in the download is the 13-page PDF digital booklet with lyrics, with a link to download behind-the-lyrics written discourse called "Recalibrating Destiny" (over 120 pages PDF document hosted online). “Envisaged” is an album that was specifically created to celebrate The Great Awakening of humanity and Earth's Ascension to the higher octave of vibrational frequency. All the songs were written during the recording process, to capture the spontaneous moments of insights within each and every passage of creation. The music and lyrics represent a creative spiritual journey following continuous revelations regarding the current events on Earth that have been unfolding especially in the past few years. If observed and put together in a continuum, they signify the process of global collective awakening and purification towards humanity's grand destiny: to transcend the matrix and rise beyond the construct of duality. Stylistically, this album follows Kekal's faithful tradition by utilizing avant-garde and alternative approach to various expressions of rock, metal and electronic music. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression. Quoted Reviews: "Kekal's fearlessness enables them to assimilate anything and everything into their deeply peculiar, avowedly avant-garde sound... A fabulous entry point into a strange musical world like no other." —Prog Magazine "While Kekal‘s Envisaged is still far from radio-friendly, the act injects a dose of accessibility in their strange soundscapes." —Metal Has No Borders "Envisaged offers so many strengths and entertaining tracks that it doesn't get lost even in the urban chaos... but rather sticks like a stud in your ear and gives gray clouds and street dirt an almost romantic touch." —Stormbringer

10/12/2025

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Quantum Resolution

Kekal

12th full-length album, originally released in 2020. Included in the download is the 12-page PDF digital booklet with lyrics, with a link to download behind-the-lyrics discussions (120-page PDF document hosted online). "Quantum Resolution" is by-far the most important Kekal album from the lyrical perspective. It can be considered as a "concept album" (the second of such from Kekal, after 2007 album "The Habit of Fire"), with all the songs relate themselves to the main/central theme, one way or another. Thematically, the album is based on the spiritual insight, or Gnosis: The revelation about knowing who we really are as a species and as Humanity and where we are going. The lyrics dig with our dark history from a distant past, and also dig into our present time and future as well: what is our role here on Earth, and how do we deal with all the deceptions that are so rampant and very structural encompassing every aspect of life, as we are closing the chapter of our present age. The music follows every song's temperament and general mood led by the lyrics. Stylistically, the album follows Kekal's faithful tradition by utilizing avant-garde and alternative approach to various expressions of rock, metal and electronic music. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression. Quoted Reviews: "...avant-garde exhortations of musical and philosophical evolution." — Metal Hammer "Kekal are still confusing and disorienting, and, if I may, completely awesome." — Metal Storm (8/10) "(Kekal) has evolved into a variety of modern metal monsters that are completely impossible to describe with a single word of black metal." — Marunouchi Muzik Magazine (10/10) "Quantum Resolution doesn't just create a discussion about musical styles, it goes further and manages to create different sensations and thoughts in each track." — Headbangers News (9/10) "...a worthy representative of new and great-inventive music." — RTMB Magazine (8.5/10)

10/11/2025

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Deeper Underground 🔥

Kekal

11th full-length album, originally released in 2018. This is the 2023 Updated Edition. Remixed and completely remastered in 2023 with 1 song received partial new vocals + lyrics, and a new front cover artwork by Levi Sianturi. Download includes a hidden bonus track (Killing Joke cover "Tiahuanaco"), and also comes with a 13-page digital booklet (PDF) with full lyrics. "Deeper Underground" marks with the return of deep energetic simplicity derived from the band's extreme metal and crust/anarcho punk roots, while maintaining its electronic music atmosphere as the basis for dialectical and emotional expositions of the lyrics. As a whole album, "Deeper Underground" aims to present a liberating energy and to share an authentic insight to the audience. It tells about existential issue: how to navigate life through all of these pain and suffering. The music examines the depths of philosophical and spiritual knowledge of existence. As metallic as it is synthesized, as organic as it is electronic, Kekal remains true to its core psyche in delivering music not only to feed our brains, but also to stir our souls. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression.

10/11/2025

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Multilateral

Kekal

10th full-length album, originally released in 2015. Download includes a 12-page digital booklet with original artwork by Levi Sianturi. 11 tracks album with over 60 minutes of total running time. "Multilateral" was made to celebrate Kekal's 20th anniversary in August 2015. The recording process of the album took more than 2 years to complete. Musically, the album represents human emotions and inner expressions that cannot be bound and limited by genres. With Multilateral, Kekal delivers a greatly experimental yet accessible music that soothes the pain of your soul. The album features unorthodox instruments such as theremin, analog synthesizers, additive synthesis, electronic beats, vocoder, and vocaloid, as well as an unorthodox production approach. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression.

10/10/2025

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Audible Minority

Kekal

7th full-length album, originally released in 2008. This is the 2018 re-mastered version with a hidden bonus track (Johnny Cash cover "Redemption"). Download also includes a PDF digital booklet with artwork and lyrics. “Audible Minority” is based on the fact that the music on the album has mapped itself into the extreme minority status: something beyond recognition of the musical norms. A stateless, nameless, and label-less manifesto made from all the bitterness and pain. The album that is entirely bleak, gloomy and dark: a perfect collision of metal and extreme electronic music as well as dark, stripped-down emotional jazz and blues. Kekal combines organic rock instruments with the use of multilayered ‘power electronics’ feedback noises, loops, samples, analog synthesizers, turntable scratches, and theremin, to mention some. Almost 2 years in the making, “Audible Minority” was constructed during various personal events of the band members’ lives. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression.

10/9/2025

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The Habit Of Fire

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6th full-length album, originally released in 2007. "The Habit of Fire" is dubbed as Kekal's most complex material packed into over 70 minutes epic concept album that incorporates elements from jazz, progressive rock, post-rock, trip-hop, industrial, ambient, electronic and experimental/avant-garde music. It marks as the 3rd highest selling album from Kekal after "1000 Thoughts of Violence" (2003) and "Acidity" (2005). The CD got a mainstream distribution in USA briefly within a year of the album release. Released March 15th, 2007 by Whirlwind Records (Germany) in the European territory, Mexico, and some Central & South American countries. Released May 15th, 2007 by Open Grave Records (USA) in the territory of USA, Canada, Japan and Australia. This album was not released in Indonesia, and many of Kekal's Indonesian listeners were not familiar with the album, until it was made available digitally via Bandcamp in 2015. Quoted Reviews: "The adjective ‘progressive’ has been over-used in music, but Kekal have more right to it than most." Sam Inglis / Sound On Sound Magazine - CD of the Month "...as compelling as it is bizarre. The 70-minute CD is like flipping randomly between radio stations playing Rush, King Crimson, Ulver, and the Mars Volta, yet there’s a cohesiveness that keeps everything from imploding, highlighted by the remarkable, 15-minute “Escapism”. Truly one of a kind." Adrien Begrand / Popmatters "This is an album that's extremely difficult to categorize...This is an album that's experimental, unusual and completely unique... This isn't a CD that will appeal to the masses, but if you've got an open mind and want to hear music that's avantgarde, unusual and experimental, give it a shot." Chad Bowar / About.com "It is living proof that music is only limited by the creativity of the artists. If there is any justice in this world, this album will bring Kekal some much deserved attention from fans all over the world." Tyler Wagnon / Metalreview.com

10/9/2025

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Acidity

Kekal

5th full-length album, originally released in 2005. This is the 2025 Updated Edition Re-mastered. Download includes 2 hidden bonus tracks recorded during the album sessions (Voivod cover "The Prow" & Celtic Frost cover "Juices Like Wine"). Download also comes with a 12-page digital booklet (PDF) with full lyrics. Originally released in 2005, "Acidity" served as another milestone for Kekal; a transition between the extreme-metal territory they had already roamed about since the mid 1990s and the more avant-garde & experimental direction they were heading at that time. A unique and diverse Kekal album, with many different emotions and thoughts displayed both in the music and lyrics. It presents itself like a kaleidoscope, with every individual song cannot represent the whole album but it stands as a part of the album's general concept. Following a successful European tour in 2004, Kekal returned to their hometown to record this album. Influenced by the raw energy they presented while playing live, it was decided that the recording would get more "live-feel" settings to capture the energy, with rhythm guitars being performed while standing up without using headphones, and tracks were unedited with no “punch-ins” and copy-paste. Musically, it emphasizes on melody lines and guitar solos. "Acidity" is the band's second most selling album after 2003's "1000 Thoughts Of Violence", and got similar high-ratings from media reviews as well as overall listeners' reception. The original 2005 releases (CD and cassette tape formats) are sold-out. 2025 Updated Edition features a completely refreshed album cover artwork, including the new 12-page booklet. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression.

10/8/2025

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1000 Thoughts Of Violence

Kekal

4th full-length album, originally released in 2003. This is the 2017 Re-mastered version. "1000 Thoughts of Violence" was released in 2003 by Fear Dark (The Netherlands), Undying Music (Indonesia), and Rock Express Records (Serbia). In Indonesia, the album was distributed by Alfa Records from 2003 - 2004 that saw the band got a mainstream Indonesian record-stores distribution. This album received numerous praises and great reviews from metal media all around the world. Many of them gave almost maximum points. "1000 Thoughts of Violence" is also Kekal's most selling album with close to 10,000 physical units combined (not including digital downloads), and the band toured Europe in 2004 following its successful release and reception of the album. The album was re-mastered and re-issued on CD and digital in 2017. Please add this album to your Bandcamp list and write short review/impression.

10/7/2025

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