KEKAL, full album download. Started out in 1995 as a more straightforward extreme metal band from Jakarta - Indonesia, Kekal entered the local scene with fresh ideas. Throughout the first 5 years, they developed their own style by incorporating many diverse elements from outside metal, but not until they released "The Painful Experience" (2001), their 3rd album which marked as a starting point for the band to step more and more into the progressive territory and started to make further experiments with their music.
In 2003, they released "1000 Thoughts of Violence", an album that has gained a lot of attention even beyond the Asian region due to the uniqueness of their music, combining elements of jazz-fusion, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, trip-hop, experimental electronic and ambient music, and blend them together into their own distinct style. Critics then started to cite Kekal among the finest independent avant-garde metal bands, and they toured Europe for the first time in 2004. In early 2005 they released their 5th album "Acidity".
After 10 years of existence as a band, Kekal decided to move forward and to come deep into musical territories yet unexplored by the band. Throughout the year 2006, Kekal was busy recording and shaping their 6th album entitled "The Habit of Fire", an ambitious project which marked a new statement for the band. "The Habit of Fire" is an experimental, but yet accessible, 70-minute epic concept album of 'urban avant-garde metal', with a liberal use of electronic elements and mix of countless musical sub-genres to accompany their trademark guitar-driven soundscapes. "The Habit of Fire" was released on May 15th 2007. In August 12, 2009, all key band members (Jeff, Levi & Leo) decided to leave Kekal, but the band itself still exists, albeit without active members.
Band members:
Jeff Arwadi - drum/programming
Azhar Levi Sianturi - bass/vocal
Leo Setiawan - guitar/vocal
1. Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams (1998)
tracklist:
1. Rotting Youth
2. Armageddon
3. Spirits
4. Deceived Minds
5. The Conversion
6. Behind Those Images
7. Reality
8. Escaping Eternal Suffering
9. A Day The Hatred Dies
10. My Eternal Lover
2. Embrace The Dead (1999)
tracklist:
1. Longing For Truth
2. Embrace The Dead
3. The Fearless and The Dedicated
4. Source of Existence (bonus track)
5. Healing
6. The Final Call
7. From Within
8. Scripture Before Struggle
9. Millennium
10. Given Words (bonus track)
3. The Painful Experience (2001)
traclist:
1. The Monsters Within
2. Crave for Solid Ground
3. Mean Attraction
4. Like There's No Other Way to Go
5. Behind Closed Doors
6. After The Storm
7. Given Words
8. Militia Christi
9. The Painful Experience
10. Via Dolorosa
4. 1000 Thoughts of Violence (2003)
tracklist:
1. Subsession / Once Again It Failed
2. Vox Diaboli
3. In Continuum
4. Paradigma Baru
5. Artifacts of Modern Insanity
6. Violent Society
7. Subsession II
8. Default
9. Beyond Numerical Reasons
5. Acidity (2005)
tracklist:
1. Characteristicon
2. Strength in My Weakness
3. Thy Neighbor's Morality
4. A Dream for A Moment
5. Broken
6. Envy and Its Manifesto
7. The Way of Thinking Beyond Comprehension
8. Romanitika Destruksi
9. Blessing in Disguise
10. Empty Space
6. The Habit of Fire (2007)
tracklist:
01: Prelude: Worldhate Chronicle
02: The Gathering of Ants
03: Isolated I
04: Manipulator Generals (Part I of Dictatorship)
....... I. Failure is The System
....... II. The Precaution of Aftermath
....... III. Decadence and Excess
05: Our Urban Industry Runs Monotonously
06: To Whom It May Concern
07: Free Association
08: Historicity and State of Mind (Part II of Dictatorship)
....... I. Repeated Patterns
....... II. Aftermath
09: Postlude: Saat Kemarau
10: A Real Life to Fear About
11: Escapism
....... I. What on Earth Am I Here For?
....... II. The Habit of Fire
....... III. Subterranean Passageways
....... IV. A Road Above, A Road Ahead
....... V. Finding A Way to Stand Up Again
7. Audible Minority (2008)
tracklist:
1. The Vampire Song
2. Conditional Destiny
3. Against
4. Ceasefire Negative
5. Between Us
6. For The Greater Good and Evil
7. Narrow Avenue
8. Virtue of Perseverance
9. Shuffling Biorhythms
10. All That Matters
11. Locust (A-ha cover)*
8. 8 (2010)
tracklist:
01. Track One
02. Gestalt Principles of Matter Perception
03. A Linear Passage
04. Tabula Rasa
05. Private School of Thought
06. The Regulars
07. Departure Gate 8
08. Heartache Memorial
09. Let Us Blend
10. Open World
11. End Unit of The Universe
Official website : http://www.kekal.org/
