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

Canada

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/Indonesia

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n experimental

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 metal

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 band Kekal

Kekal

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. 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 2 years, during various events in the band members lives.

There is an official music video for the song "Narrow Avenue".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqjVLUF8g0

The album was originally supposed to be released in CD

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 format in December, with the first pressing a special digipak

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 release that was hand-numbered and limited to 777 copies. Unfortunately, the release never came about, and the album was released instead as a free download on December 25.

Track listing

1. The Vampire Song
2. Conditional Destiny
3. Against
4. Ceasefire Negative
5. Between Us
6. For the Greater Good and Evil
7. Narrow Avenue
8. Virtue of Perseverance
9. Shuffling Biorhythms
10. All That Matters
11. Locust (A-ha
    A-ha
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     cover)

Band Line-Up

• Jeff Arwadi
  Jeff Arwadi
  Jefray Arwadi is a musician, music producer, and graphic artist from Jakarta, Indonesia, who now resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is most notable as the former guitarist and front man for avant-garde/progressive metal band Kekal, and as the co-founder of experimental death metal project...
  
  
• Azhar Levi Sianturi
  Azhar Levi Sianturi
  Azhar Levi Sianturi is the former bassist for avant-garde/progressive metal band Kekal. He also has his own grindcore project called Mournphagy.-Kekal:...
  
  
• Leo Setiawan
  Leo Setiawan
  Leo Setiawan is a former guitarist for progressive metal band Kekal.-History:Leo joined Kekal on 1996, just after the band released their official demo, Contra Spiritualia Nequitiae...
  
  

Additional credits:

• Jeff - Preparation
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  , sampling
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  , arrangement
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  , performance
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  , and programming
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• Jeff - Production
  Record producer
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  , engineering
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  , and mixing
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• Jelena Glisic - Additional engineering
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   on "The Vampire Song"
• Darryl Neudorf
  Darryl Neudorf
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   - Production
  Record producer
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   inputs
• Damon de Szegheo - Production
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   inputs

All songs written by Jeff except for "Locust", by Pål Waaktaar

External links

• Audible Minority on Metalstorm.net