Kekal

Kekal is a three-piece post-metal/avant-garde metal band from Jakarta, Indonesia, and is currently based in Canada. The band consists of Jeff Arwadi (guitars, vocals, programming, drums), Azhar Levi Sianturi (bass, vocals), and Leo Setiawan (guitars).

They started 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 third album "The Painful Experience", which marked as a starting point for the band to step more and more into the progressive metal and avant-garde metal and made further experiments with their music.

In 2003, they released "1000 Thoughts of Violence" and received positive media reviews. This led to their first European mini-tour in 2004. After that tour, they released their 5th album, "Acidity", in 2005. A year later, they made even further experiments on their recent 2007 album, "The Habit Of Fire", which found the band stepping out of the metal territory, hence the term "post-metal" is brought to describe the music.

Official site: www.kekal.org