Kekal have released Rotting Away, the second song from Kanata, with a lyric video.
It follows Deception Station, which opened the album and opened the campaign for it. No release date has been given for the record itself.
Kekal have been going since 1995 and are one of the strangest long running projects in extreme metal: an Indonesian band that started in black metal, kept the harsh vocals, and then spent two decades pulling electronics, progressive rock and plain pop structure into the same songs without apologising for any of it. Since 2009 there has been no fixed line-up at all, the work being done by former members contributing from wherever they are.
That arrangement should have ended the band years ago and instead has produced a record every two or three years without a gap worth noting.
Rotting Away is the second piece of Kanata to surface and the band have still not said when the album itself arrives. With this project that is not evasiveness, it is simply how the records have always been assembled: in pieces, by people in different places, until there is enough of it to call finished.