Floating in the dark seas
The tides washing over me
The cold still haunts me
All alone inside of my head
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell’s old line turns like a key in a locked room, and C Z A R I N A’s Dagger In The Heart steps through that opening without a second’s pause. The track rises through the dark as if the night itself were bracing for confession. Her voice enters with a quiet quake: gentle, unguarded, before gathering height and clarity, bearing the resolve of someone ready to confront the depths rather than run from them.
The lyrics trace a solitary drift through emotional turbulence: disorientation folding into cold isolation, and then into a fragile, hard-won resolve. Celestial signs return like distant guides, offering small bearings in the swell of waves, darkness, and memory. Yet beneath all this pressure lies a soft, persistent pull toward connection and the faint tint of dawn. The piece becomes a study in endurance.
Musically, the song unfurls in arcs. Synth lines widen the horizon; orchestral fire fans out, retracts, and rises again; choir tones hover like rites drifting from ancient stone. The movement feels tidal, building toward a sharpened intensity. Beneath these layers lives a warrior-queen ferocity: a rise of the divine feminine, not as emblem but as force, shaped by trial and tempered resolve. Her heroine’s path unfolds moment by moment, each ascent earned.
The Kitsunés’ self-directed video expands this ascent into a realm drawn from Asian cosmology and the vast awe of childhood epics. Imagine Labyrinth. Legend, or The Neverending Story, viewed through a different lens: landscapes with sacred hush, creatures shaped by folktale, skies carrying old warnings. In her hand, she carries a Foo Dog: small, talismanic, echoing those handheld tokens of Perseus’s mythic quests. Known as guardians of yin and yang, these figures symbolize protection and balance. Here, the Foo Dog becomes a guide between transformations, a compact sentinel that steadies her as she crosses thresholds and sheds old forms.
Watch the video for “Dagger in The Heart” below:
Dagger In The Heart reads as a vow carried through darkness toward the stubborn promise of light. She enters that proverbial cave, snatches the treasure, and steps back into a world shaped by her own becoming. As Carl Jung once said: “Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.”
As C Z A R I N A, Vero Faye Kitsuné walks the line between ancient rite and future gleam, standing at the crossroads of disciplines. A New York native now rooted in Galicia’s wind-carved coast, she moves fluidly through a wide constellation of darker forms: progressive darkwave, gleaming synthpop, Futurepop’s sharpened pulse, and the sweeping arcs of prog rock. Her output doesn’t sit within these realms so much as thread them together, building a world where myth, machinery, and emotion converge under her singular vision.
Listen to Dagger In The Heart below and order the single here.
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