1000 Thoughts of Violence is the fourth album by Indonesian extreme metal band Kekal, released in 2003.

[11] According to a review by HM Magazine, Kekal matured greatly since its previous release, The Painful Experience, especially with its vocals.

[4] This album found the band experimenting much more than on previous releases, yet also was considered its most cohesive effort to date.

[8] The band's bass guitar technique in particular was compared to Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris.

[5] In 2010 on Powermetal.de, 1000 Thoughts of Violence garnered fourteen points in a retrospective on the year 2003, tying in twenty-third place out of twenty-eight alongside Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, Harem Scarem's Higher, Green Carnation's A Blessing in Disguise, and Arena's Contagion.