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. 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.
[edit] Current members
- Jeff Arwadi - guitar, vocals, programming, drums
- Azhar Levi Sianturi - bass, vocals
- Leo Setiawan - guitar
[edit] Discography
Kekal full-length albums:
- Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams - 1998
- Embrace The Dead - 1999
- The Painful Experience - 2001
- 1000 Thoughts of Violence - 2003
- Acidity - 2005
- The Habit of Fire - to be released early 2007
