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| Band:
Kekal |
| Album: "Acidity" |
| Label: Fear Dark |
| Year: 2005 |
| Country:
Indonesia |
| Official Site:
www.kekal.cjb.net |
| Genre:
Avantgarde Metal |
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Kekal presents here their latest creation called Acidity, something that would break your expectations. Kekal have always
demonstrate something different through each release. In this album kekal doesn't play that cool progressive black metal you know this band for, this is
more avandtgarde metal than anything else, but it is still cool.
If you remember Kekal has been changing through each release, first back then when they released Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams they played a very different metal
with vocals alike to COF vocals, then the next release shows more features and so on. In this album clean vocals are predominant, one good thing here is that the drums
sounds more realistic.
I get this CD and put it into my CD player the first song starts in a cool way and yeah! very cool progressive black metal comes out it, but when the second songs starts
it changes, it becomes slower, with less black metal vocals and so on, even though I think all the songs here are great. The song "A Dream For A Moment"
is the first song I listened from this album some time ago, since I listened to this song I knew Kekal was bringing something new, yet the clean vocals would be the main stuff.
Also electronic stuffs are present in this album, many songs have them.
The production is great, and the cover art is nothing to admire of. They include a booklet with lyrics and at the back of the booklet are the pictures of the
five members of the band. Kekal has done again. If you buy this expect something pretty different from their previous releases.
Reviewed by
Metalerosal
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Running Time:
55:55
Total Songs:
10
Tracklisting:
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Characteristicon |
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Set to believe in a peculiar way
Under a hyperlogical mental occurence
A truth beyond standardization
Beyond structural represtentation
As we can see
As we can hear
As we can feel in many ways
Images from distinct classifications
Elements of thoughts minus speculations
Bizarre primary definitions
Demand no equivalence
Equipped by senses and imaginations
Systematic cycles of consistency
Individuality within a solid uniformal characeristics
Now we can see
Now we can hear
Now we can feel
We are not the same
Blessed with different gifts
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Strength in My Weakness |
It came along in one concrete form
A knowledge that turned me upside down
Let us put it this way: a new experience
Of living without me as I
Accept the nature and origin
Of our human condition
Believe that something defective
Flows down inside the blood of mine
Not a best thing to do, from the world's mindframe
To see all my pride diminishing
Given away this kind of strength once I had
To be replaced by a thing called faith
Accept the nature and origin
Of our undisputable weakness
Believe in something invincible
To take control of my whole
Accept the nature and origin
Of our undisputable weakness
Believe in something invincible
To take over my self
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Thy Neighbor's Morality |
I believe it is a politically generated act
When hundreds of civilians entering
the scene to execute punishment
Taking a somewhat fascistic solution
within a socialist environment
An ambivalence of goals;
to make a better world or just spreading a fear?
Creating an instability within a
supposedly peaceful neighborhood
Claiming to be the keepers of the "law", they search for victims
No tolerance for all the outsiders who live outside the "rule"
The use of violence occurs, and ironically it is permittable
There is no such difference between ignorance and hypocrisy
Living in a system where togetherness supremely reigns
To act the same, behave the same
Letting the neighbors become the watcher
Problems of mine are problems of theirs
The biggest concerns: moral issues
Who are they to be the judge for someone who lives next door?
The privacy severedly invaded
Don't they know, have they ever realized?
They are as guilty as the ones they judged
Time to reap from worthless seeds
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A Dream For a Moment |
Feel our time is descending
A metamorphic significance
In a dream for a moment
It comes near as strange as we are
Communicate omni-verbally
Centers hope and facility
Let the spirit prays what we long
To redesign our future needs
Portal of our wishes
Entrance to a stage of balance
A spiritual archetype
To survive the miserable world
Communicate omni-verbally
Gathers hope and facility
Let the spirit prays what we long
To redesign our destiny
Beyond our frail elements of conscious
There is a multi-dimensial capacity
Creating strong synergy of wish and reality
A drive to idealize values and quality
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Broken |
These feelings I can't explain
Months and even years of yearning
For the beauty that never come
Each day I find only dying souls
I know we have to enjoy the life
Yet I'm still complaining everything
Ever seems like never... No more
Colours translated as black in sight
Overshadowed by uncertainty
When will it become calm again
Storms of disillusion wrecked my mind
Pull me to the state of total chaos
I know we have to enjoy the life
Yet I'm still complaining everything
Where is my faith as I had in the past?
I need to get it back right now!
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Envy and its Manifesto |
Let's talk about something we know well, and its name is envy
Certainly not a similar kind of jealousy
And it is not about relationship,
nor politics, nor a system
But instead, a something do do with an individual drive
I see a path which is leading towards a life of depravity
It is clear, the ignorance acts as a destroyer of limits
A conscience set by one's ethical values is now questioned
When the initial point for the crime is
about to be committed and executed
Walk this way
Gaining a chronic Cain-complex
Fade away
And kill the core of contentment
Every page of a book has its own substance that linked to the rest
The same thing applied exactly to humankind
People were born with all different shapes and patterns and uniqueness
Imagine what would happen if everyone owns the same everything?
Walk this way
A lifeline has been made dysfunctional
Fade away
And kill the core of contentment
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The Way of Thinking Beyond Comprehension |
Out in a confusion
When we no longer know how
To decide and to make a choice
What is right and what is wrong
A second next before deadline
Reality testing, an asymmetric completion
Is this what we call "life"?
Caught in a state of endless stagnation
When we are tired to swallow it
Digesting our immobility of experience
To become a machine of our society
Stamped down within these concrete fields
Think harder and think again
We are what we become
Think harder and think again
We are not the present "us"
Nothing is plain impossible
Even for things beyond human capability
As long as there is a chance
And there is time who provides moments
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Blessing in Disguise |
Picture of reality
Carved by the sequence of history
All integrated into one
As a traumatic side of this world
We are the pilgrims of questions
Search for the meaning of life
Moments of joys and of sorrows
Fused together in our existence
He who has why in his life
Can bear with almost any how
He who has reason to live
From all his tragedies come a blessing in disguise
Many lives don't know where to go
Walk the paths of deception
Must I follow them for comfort
If I know they are far from the truth
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Empty Space |
Shadows, a presence of a void within
Journey towards the edge of life
Frigid, an iced-filled blood inside
Keep me from the state of being alive
Numbness, deleting passion in one strike
Running, wandering through these empty roads
Darkeded, to paint myself into black
kept me from the state of being alive
Pushing these eyes to get the second sight
What I feel is no pain
What I sense is emptiness
You got to fill me now
You got to kill my flesh
You got to mold my brain
Restructuring my thoughts
You got to burn my vein
And boil my ice cold blood
You got to set me free
And break my chains away
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Highlights:
Characteristicon and A Dream For A Moment.
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