Irish trio Kingfishr return with their first music of the year with the release of, 'The Blade', via B-Unique/Atlantic Records.
The track, a deeply personal but wholly relatable ode to reaching for darkness when you assume you’ve exhausted all other options, is richly melancholic but also typically evocative and euphoric. On the track, Kingfishr stated, “The Blade is probably as heavy a tune as we’re ever likely to release. It’s not something we ever expected to be writing about given the seriousness of it all. The song just kind of happened and we feel it deserves to see the light of day.”
Lyrically, it leaves little to the imagination nor wrapped within metaphor. This is a song about the turmoil of struggling when you can’t pinpoint what you’re struggling with. It’s about loneliness when you’re not alone, the sadness when you’re otherwise happy with your lot, and rather than tackling those feelings head on, you lock them in a box and hide it from view. Just another problem for another time.
Listen to ‘The Blade’ on F1 Tracks.
Kingfishr worked on the video with fellow Irishman and collective band favourite, the award-winning actor Anthony Boyle (House of Guinness, Say Nothing, Tolkien,) who, subtly but beautifully, brought those lyrical reflections to life in his performance.
“We met Mr. Anthony Boyle at a gig we were playing in Vancouver. He was shooting in the city and came to the show. We’re big fans of his work and we’d never met any famous actors, so we were delighted with ourselves. Funnily enough, we had organised a back garden gig later that night so you can imagine how that went.
“He called into the 3Arena at Christmas too, and very graciously agreed to be part of the video for The Blade after that. The whole thing came together over the space of like, four days.
The band capped a huge breakthrough 2025 with a fully sold-out UK/Irish tour including two nights at Dublin’s 3Arena throughout December. Throughout the tour, they debuted ‘The Blade’ to an ecstatic, visceral reaction from fans.
Following the release of ‘The Blade’, Kingfishr return to the studio to continue work on the follow-up to their smash-hit debut album Halcyon, interjected with touring that takes them to Australia for the first time throughout March and a big UK run in May.
