 "Beyond the Glimpse of Dreams" featured a varied sound of black and death metal and incorporated a range of vocal styles such as high pitched black metal shrieks, death growls, and female singing.On "Embrace the Dead", Kekal used a combination of black metal with death, classic, and doom metal elements and included hints of Gothic and dark wave.The third album, "The Painful Experience", saw the band fusing its black metal style with progressive metal and included elements of thrash, classic, and power metal.