Purgatory

At the first time Purgatory was known as a Death Metal band that struggled in the time of ignorance in Indonesia. Many kinds of downfalls built these men even stronger and more optimistic in approaching their goal. Many times of members changed and many performances brought them closer to perfection in improving their musicality, which is obviously shown in their music and existence until now. Purgatory had their debut in 1994 by releasing their first 6 (six) songs in mini album, ABYSS CALL. In 1998, Purgatory got their first contribution with their song SAKARATUL MAUT in a compilation called Metalik Klinik I, produced by Rotorcorp, which also produced their album AMBANG KEPUNAHAN in the next year (1999). Until they improved themselves by adding turntable, sampling and one more vocal, in the end of 2003, this formation was established in album 7:172, featuring Eet "Edane" in a song called PARANOIA, produced by ZR Production, with Sony Music Indonesia as the distributor. Echo of this album bounced longer than they expected, as how it attracted ears that put Purgatory in compilation albums. 2004, Morbid Noise Record put DRAGDOWN (7:172) in their compilation album called Metaloblast, the next year in 2005, Purgatory made INSIDE U song as one of part in compilation album titled OST Gerbang 13, this song was also contributed in compilation album Revolution of Sound, produced by ZR Production and Sony/BMG as the distributor. In the same year, M.O.G.S.A.W (7:172) was chosen to be part of compilation album called Planet Rock, by Sony/BMG. 

Purgatory also chosen to represent Indonesia by contributing one of their song DOWNFALL (The Battle of Uhud), in a project of Century Media (Germany) and Alfa Record (Indonesia), produced and aligned with the world most powerful names, such as Napalm Death, Lacuna Coil, God Forbid, Shadows Fall and many more. The compilation album itself called The Art of Metal. The song DOWNFALL (The Battle of Uhud) is taken from the album titled BEAUTY LIES BENEATH which is released at Dec 2006.