Kekal - Audible Minority (2008)

I've been listening to Kekal since their early Black Metal origins to their transformation into Avant-Garde Metal. I've never been a big fan of their newer releases, however you can see some brilliance behind their music. "Audible Minority" was released on-line for free, and an official label release came to light in December 2008. I'm not an expert in Avangarde Music, but I can still find releases that I like and ones that I don’t.

Kekal's latest release is one that after listening for several times, I'm not able to get into it. There are many elements floating around that do not fit well as a whole. Many of the samples are just annoying in my opinion, and the vocals just make them worse. While there are some nice jazzy parts, they just suddenly transform into a drone noises and the magic is lost. The only song I liked was "Against", all the rest have nice parts but nothing else.

This album is nowhere near the releases of Ephel Duath or similar bands, it just feels like a bunch of stuff put together and released. I was not expecting to find a structure to the music, and there is none present. The electronic samples are sometimes interesting but in overall they get drowned with the rest of the weirdness of this album. There are some minimalistic parts that are very good, but like a mention before they are quickly followed by an annoying sample or beat, and then the vocals finish ruining it for me.

Probably if I did plenty of hard drugs or something I would get more out of this release, but since this is not the case I'm just going to recommend you to stay away from this album.

Country: Indonesia