Indonesia-based avant-garde/experimental metal band Kekal just recently released their newest video clip, “Quiet Eye”, the second of the collection of video to highlight the main motif of their upcoming brand-new full-length album “Quantum Resolution”; a varied and multi-textural concept-album which will be released in August 2020.
“Quantum Resolution” can be taken into consideration as a “concept album” (the second of such from Kekal, after the 2007 album “The Habit of Fire”), with all the tracks associate themselves to the main/central theme, somehow. Thematically, the album is based on the spiritual understanding, or Gnosis: The revelation regarding recognizing that we actually are as a species and as Humanity and where we are going. The lyrics dig with our dark background from a far-off past, and also explore our present time and future too: what is our role here on Earth, and exactly how do we manage all the deceptions that are so widespread and extremely structural encompassing every facet of life, as we are shutting the phase of our present age.
The music adheres to every song’s character and general state of mind led by the verses. Stylistically, the album adheres to Kekal’s faithful practice by using progressive and alternate techniques to various expressions of rock, metal and electronic music.
Album Track Listing:
1. Quiet Eye
2. Spiritual Anarchism
3. Inward Journey
4. The Sleep System
5. Testimony
6. Driven
7. Zoe
8. Hidden No More
9. Apocalypse: Quantum Resolution
10. Pneumatic Union
Formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia, Kekal has more than 10 albums in their discography up until now. According to AllMusic, Kekal was just one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make worldwide invasions, and according to sociologist of heavy metal, Keith Kahn-Harris, was just one of the few extreme metal bands from Southeast Asia to ever make more than a very little impression on the international scene. Kekal is referred to as the first band from Indonesia that toured Europe back in 2004, and since 2009, has actually ended up being a band without official members, with previous participants and other artists willingly contributing with each other in cooperation to make brand-new albums up to this day. Most of the band’s songs are now released to public with Creative Commons certificate, and also 4 albums are additionally offered free of cost download including the critically-acclaimed “1000 Thoughts of Violence” (2003) and also “The Habit of Fire” (2007).
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