Piranha Piranha are kicking the damn door down with a lit fuse and a mortar explosion. Their first single, “Fire Eye”, goes into the deep end of spiritual rock, and it’s clear from the first second that this isn’t your average garage band rehearsal tape.
Hailing from Akron, a city with a storied heartbeat, the duo of Chad and Reed have conjured something that’s both primal and profoundly conscious. The story behind the track is intense. The pair took a trip to Costa Rica in early 2025 to sit with Ayahuasca, and the song is the direct aftermath of that journey. “Fire Eye” is about that moment the veil gets torn down—the moment you see Source, God, Love, in all its blinding, terrifying, and beautiful truth. This isn’t a song about a bad day; it’s about the shattering of reality itself.
But let’s talk about the music, because the ethos is backed by some seriously killer execution. The recording process alone deserves a hall-of-fame spot for dedication. The track starts with the strike of a match. That match lights a fuse. That fuse leads to a real, live, recorded-in-the-parking-lot explosion from a mortar firework that kicks the whole track into gear. They didn’t sample it; they did it.
The riff itself has an epic origin story. Reed first channeled it while playing a drone flute under a tree—a peaceful, flowing beginning. But when it got translated to the guitar and fed through the band’s amplifier, it mutated into this driving, powerful beast. You can still feel that hypnotic, spiritual core in the song’s DNA, especially in the outro, which pays homage to its serene roots before the dynamite went off.
Piranha Piranha is on a mission, and it’s not just to make you tap your foot. They’re here to spread light and truth, to remind you that the world you see is a shell, and that we are all pure love underneath the bullshit. “Fire Eye” is the audio vehicle for that revelation—the rock scene needs this fire.