Kilometro1. We are an independent Mexican rock and metal project based in Puebla, Mexico.
What genre of music do you play?
Can you give a brief history of the band, how it came together and where it is today?
Kilometro1 has developed over more than a decade through the creative collaboration of Mexican vocalist, songwriter and writer Lily Kerrigan and Dutch musician and producer Alwin Marcel Rooijackers.
Our recorded work includes Sobreviviente (2017), Renacer (2019), and our fourth studio album, Circle of Nine, released in 2026. We have also performed in Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Today, we continue developing original music that combines powerful arrangements with research, writing and cultural storytelling. Lily contributes vocals, lyrics, narrative development and musical arrangements, while Marcel is central to the instrumental composition, guitar work and production. Our creative responsibilities often overlap through collaboration.
Kilometro1 has developed over more than a decade through the creative collaboration of Mexican vocalist, songwriter and writer Lily Kerrigan and Dutch musician and producer Alwin Marcel Rooijackers.
Our recorded work includes Sobreviviente (2017), Renacer (2019), and our fourth studio album, Circle of Nine, released in 2026. We have also performed in Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Today, we continue developing original music that combines powerful arrangements with research, writing and cultural storytelling. Lily contributes vocals, lyrics, narrative development and musical arrangements, while Marcel is central to the instrumental composition, guitar work and production. Our creative responsibilities often overlap through collaboration.
What can people expect from your music?
Listeners can expect contrasts: heavy guitars alongside orchestral passages, melodic vocals, changes in atmosphere and songs drawing on different languages and cultural references.
Our lyrics sometimes begin with historical or literary material, but we do not approach these sources as factual reconstructions. We are interested in what a story reveals about memory, identity, fear and the people whose voices survive in it.
What is the best release that people should check out from your band?
Our fourth album, Circle of Nine, released on May 27, 2026, is the best introduction to our current artistic direction.
Its first six songs are independent compositions, while the final four form a connected narrative sequence: “Witte Wieven,” “The Circle of Nine,” “The Trial,” and “The Silent Curse.”
Listen to the album:
Our fourth album, Circle of Nine, released on May 27, 2026, is the best introduction to our current artistic direction.
Its first six songs are independent compositions, while the final four form a connected narrative sequence: “Witte Wieven,” “The Circle of Nine,” “The Trial,” and “The Silent Curse.”
Listen to the album:
https://open.spotify.com/album/52ORT8UagnYfn8aXz9xBnV
Watch “The Trial”:
Watch “The Trial”:
Where can people find you on social media?
Band website: https://www.kilometro1.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kilometro1.band/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kilometro1band
Lily Kerrigan’s website: https://www.lilykerrigan.mx/
Band website: https://www.kilometro1.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kilometro1.band/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kilometro1band
Lily Kerrigan’s website: https://www.lilykerrigan.mx/
Additional question: What inspired the connected story in the final four songs of Circle of Nine?
The sequence draws inspiration from the Witte Wieven traditions of the Netherlands. What interested us was not simply the supernatural imagery, but the transformation of women’s stories across generations.
These songs explore gathering, suspicion, accusation and the traces that remain when a community decides how certain women should be remembered.
We wanted the music to hold that tension without presenting our interpretation as a historical account. For us, folklore is also a question of language: who tells a story, who is believed, and what changes each time it is repeated?
The sequence draws inspiration from the Witte Wieven traditions of the Netherlands. What interested us was not simply the supernatural imagery, but the transformation of women’s stories across generations.
These songs explore gathering, suspicion, accusation and the traces that remain when a community decides how certain women should be remembered.
We wanted the music to hold that tension without presenting our interpretation as a historical account. For us, folklore is also a question of language: who tells a story, who is believed, and what changes each time it is repeated?
Thanks to Lily at Kilometro1 for all of the details.
