Kekal

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Kekal is a post-metal / avant-garde metal band.

Originally from Jakarta, Indonesia, they started out in 1995 as a more straightforward extreme metal band. Throughout the first 5 years, they developed their own style by incorporating many diverse elements from outside metal. This distinct style become most prominent in The Painful Experience, their 3rd album which marked as a starting point for the band to step more and more into the progressive metal and avant-garde metal territory and make further experiments with their music.

In 2003, they released 1000 Thoughts of Violence, the album that got numerous outstanding reviews from media (reviews can be found on the band's website). After a mini-European Tour in 2004, they released their 5th album Acidity in 2005. A year later, they made even further experiments on their soon-to-be-released album The Habit of Fire, which found the band stepping out of the metal territory, and hence the term 'post-metal' is brought to describe the music.