''Audible Minority'' is the seventh full-length studio album by

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band

Kekal Kekal (sometimes stylized as KEKAL) is a heavy metal and electronic music band formed in 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to AllMusic, Kekal was one of the first heavy metal bands from Indonesia to make international inroads, and accordin ...

. According to the band, the album is titled "Audible Minority" because the music on the album is of extreme minority status, and is "entirely bleak, gloom and dark." They also said that the album was constructed over almost two years, during various events in the band members lives.

Jeff Arwadi Jefray Kurnia "Jeff" Arwadi (born 1974) is an Indonesian musician, music producer, and graphic designer. A native of Jakarta, Indonesia, he now resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is mostly known as a former guitarist, vocalist, and record ...

recorded the entire songs on this album all by himself, and started shortly after he moved to Canada in 2006. There is an official music video for the song "Narrow Avenue". The album was originally supposed to be released by a now-defunct record label NePlusUltra Music in CD format in December 2008, with the first pressing a special

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release that was hand-numbered and limited to 777 copies. Unfortunately, the physical release never came about, and the album was released instead as a free digital download on 25 December 2012. In December 2012, four years after the initial release date, the album was finally being released physically, as a bonus-CD of the limited hand-numbered deluxe double-CD edition of a 2012 Kekal album ''

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'', while the free download version had been discontinued in favor of the paid download, which is now made available on the band's

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page. The

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cover song "Locust" is not included on the CD version, but included as a hidden bonus track on the digital download version.

Track listing

Personnel

Azhar Levi Sianturi Azhar Levi Sianturi is an Indonesian musician and mechanical engineer. He is mainly known in the music scene as the former bassist for avant-garde/progressive metal band Kekal. He also has his own grindcore project called Mournphagy. His professi ...

Leo Setiawan Leonard "Leo" Setiawan is mainly known as a former guitarist for progressive metal band Kekal. His main occupation is civil engineer and he owns and operates a building development firm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Kekal Leo joined Kekal in 1996, ju ...

Additional credits: *Jeff – preparation, sampling,

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and programming *Jeff –

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, mixing and mastering *Jelena Glisic – additional engineering on "The Vampire Song" *

Darryl Neudorf Darryl Neudorf (born June 7, 1964 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian musician, record producer and audio engineer. He was the drummer for 54-40 from 1982 to 1986. He is best known during this time for co-writing the hit song "I Go Blin ...

– production inputs *Damon de Szegheo – production inputs

References

External links

''Audible Minority'' on Metalstorm.net
{{Authority control 2008 albums Kekal albums Albums free for download by copyright owner