Znous have released “Sket سكات”, a new single built around the idea of silence as a living presence.
Released on 2 July 2026, the track takes its title from the Tunisian Arabic word for silence. In the text accompanying the release, Znous describe that silence as a hadhra in the soul, a spiritual state from which the song begins.
The statement places “Sket” within a wider reflection on human collapse, faith, capitalism, Western modernity, artificial intelligence and weapons of planetary destruction. For Znous, the song comes from a point where “the tragedy of a nation widens into the tragedy of a civilization, and further into the tragedy of a species.”
“We Znous stand with you at the precipice,” the group write. “Some of us always knew this was coming to a world built on batil (باطل), where the human is shrunk to a performance under the hammer of capitalism and the anvil of Western modernism.”
The statement also connects the song to North African history and identity, with Znous describing themselves as “children of the Capsian culture, born of Amazigh mothers and a thousand whims of history.”
Listen to “Sket سكات” below:
