Virginia’s Kilara was one of my favorites during the late 1990s. My band did a short tour with them and we all made quick friends. They were similar in sound to bands like Down, yet more heavy, more punk, more down to earth, and more approachable. Kilara took equal parts blues, punk, metal and bluegrass to cook up a fierce, chaotic, cacophony of, err… southern-fried metal. As far as I know, they were one of the first, and certainly my initiation to the sludge-metal/southern-metal genre.
Formed as a side project of then-Avail-drummer Erik Larson, members went on to be in Alabama Thunderpussy, Page 99, and others. Southern Fried Metal compiles their 7–inches, splits, and demo.
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