The Habit of Fire got the CD of The Month review on Sound on Sound Mag November 2007 edition (respectable audio production magazine from UK)..
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov07/articles/playback_1107.htmCD Of The Month: Kekal The Habit Of FireThe Habit Of Fire is apparently the sixth album from Indonesian beat combo Kekal, and features such popular favourites as "Worldhate Chronicle", "The Gathering Of Ants" and "Our Urban Industry Runs Monotonously". The band describe it as "an experimental yet accessible 70-minute epic concept album of urban avant garde metal", which is pretty much on the money.
So too is the production and engineering, which marries contemporary (and presumably triggered) blast-beat drums with keyboards, vocoders, and a bewildering range of sounds. Respect is due to the mix engineer who made it all fit in two speakers! There's a breathless, almost ADD feel to proceedings as the band barrel from one idea to the next, borrowing influences from anything and everything. At the same time, though, their tightness and discipline as a unit is impressive, and you can tell that they've been playing together for a long time. The adjective "progressive" has been over-used in music, but Kekal have more right to it than most.
- Sam Inglis