Deeper Underground 🔥 by Kekal

11th full-length album from Kekal, originally released in 2018.
NOTE: This 2023 Updated Edition digital download replaces the original version released on May 15, 2018.

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CD version of this album is handled by Indonesian extreme metal label Sadist Records based in Bali, it comes with a bonus track and 8-page booklet. Sadist Records is run by people who are very dedicated to supporting independent bands, and has been very active in the Indonesian underground metal scene since the late 1990s, and even worked with Kekal in the early days to help distribute Kekal cassette tapes as well as many other Indonesian bands back in the day.

2023 Updated Edition details:
- Completely remastered audio
- Most of the songs were re-mixed in 2023 with focus on tightening and enhancing the overall sound
- Update on song "Sanity Away From Sanity" with partial newly recorded vocals and lyrics ❗
- New Music Video "Speed Of God" https://youtu.be/5bJ991nfOYo
- Added 1 bonus track: Tiahuanaco (Killing Joke cover)
- New front cover artwork feat. illustration by Levi Sianturi
- Refreshed CD (and Digital) cover layout design

Album info: www.kekal.org/deeperunderground

Original version physical formats (SOLD-OUT):
Limited Edition CD (500 copies) and Cassette Tape (100 copies) were released by Hitam Kelam Records (Indonesia) in 2018.

"Deeper Underground" is Kekal's 11th full-length album, and it marks with the return of deep energetic simplicity derived from the band's extreme metal and crust/anarcho punk roots, while maintaining its electronic music atmosphere as the basis for dialectical and emotional expositions of the lyrics.

As a whole album, "Deeper Underground" aims to present a liberating energy and to share an authentic insight to the audience. It tells about existential issue: how to navigate life through all of these pain and suffering. The music examines the depths of philosophical and spiritual knowledge of existence. As metallic as it is synthesized, as organic as it is electronic, Kekal remains true to its core psyche in delivering music not only to feed our brains, but also to stir our souls.

Tracklist

1.	Root of All Evil	6:27

2.	Sanity Away from Sanity	5:26

3.	Speed of God	4:46

4.	Rotten in the House	4:07

5.	Deeper Underground	5:05

6.	The Many Faces of Your Face	4:59

7.	Revealment (feat. Voxlucis)	3:36

8.	Triple Evils	5:28

9.	End of Hegemony	6:03

Credits

released May 24, 2023

Produced, engineered & mixed by Jeff Arwadi at Ideation Station, 2016 — 2017 and 2023
Track 7 vocals & partial lyrics by Voxlucis
Artwork & illustration by Levi Sianturi
Layout design by Jeff Arwadi
Photography by Levi Sianturi & SCA
Remastered in 2023 by Jeff Arwadi
Tracks 1 — 5 and 9 received updated mix in 2023

Kekal is a self-organized and voluntary institution and since 2009, Kekal has no official band members.

Online album reviewers welcome! Send email to Kekal (through Bandcamp contact form) with a couple links to your previous reviews & you will be sent the full album promo (digital only) for review. Thank you.

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.