Kekal is a post-metal / avant-garde metal band from Jakarta, Indonesia, and is currently based in Canada. 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.

Current members
* Jeff Arwadi - guitar, vocals, programming, drums
* Azhar Levi Sianturi - bass, vocals
* Leo Setiawan - guitar

Discography
* Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams - 1998
* Embrace The Dead - 1999
* The Painful Experience - 2001
* 1000 Thoughts of Violence - 2003
* Acidity - 2005
* The Habit of Fire - 2007