Kekal

Country: Indonesia
Genre: Avant-garde Metal
Founded: 1995

Kekal is a self-organized and voluntary institution with no official members.

Formed in 1995 as a more straight-forward extreme metal band, Jakarta—Indonesia-based Kekal has been venturing deeply into the continuous exploration in creating music for more than two decades.

Their monumental 4th album «1000 Thoughts of Violence» (2003) and 5th album «Acidity» (2005) marked as the beginning of their journey into the unknown, where they successfully blend their extreme metal basic energy with the enormous amount of progressive experimental elements, but yet somehow—accessible. For Kekal, musical exploration is considered as one important method of self-actualization. Kekal is one of the first bands/musicians from Indonesia that gained international presence in the early and mid 2000 by releasing albums in both North American and European markets, and the first band from Indonesia to tour Europe in March 2004—playing a string of live concerts in Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.

Since 2009, Kekal has become a band with no official members, but its former member(s) still continue to make music and to release albums for Kekal, albeit as anonymous contributors that are not published as music performers. Stylistically, Kekal follows its own faithful tradition by utilizing avant-garde and alternative approach to various expressions of rock, metal and electronic music.

Links:
Website: https://www.kekal.org
Bandcamp: https://kekal.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kekalofficial
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/kekalofficial
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TfoHj4wkkwQIIkE48Rgy5
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kekalofficial