Volume III, the forthcoming full-length from Montreal's SONS OF ARRAKIS, is scheduled for January 22, 2027, through Black Throne Productions. The announcement, circulated by C Squared Music, arrives alongside the new single ‘Rise of Disaster’, featuring guest vocals by Luc Bourgeois (SANDVEISS). The album will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats.
The accompanying ‘Rise of Disaster’ video introduces a song concerned with the exploitation of crisis, extending the band's storytelling beyond its creative foundation in Frank Herbert's Dune.
War, trauma and competing narratives
SONS OF ARRAKIS identify Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine as a major lyrical influence. Their explanation focuses on how political and economic powers can use fear and collective suffering to strengthen control.
“‘Rise of Disaster’ deals with war, manipulation and the way fear, suffering and collective trauma can be exploited by political and economic powers,” the band explain. “One of the major influences behind the lyrics was Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine and its examination of how moments of crisis can be used to impose new forms of control.”
The song's central question is deliberately left open. “The recurring question ‘Whose side are you on?’ deliberately has no simple answer. It reflects the pressure to choose between competing narratives while the same cycle of violence, destruction and retaliation continues underneath them.”
The announcement describes a musical arrangement that moves between urgent, heavy verse rhythms and melodic choruses with an uplifting contrast. A chaotic instrumental finale returns the track to its darker atmosphere. That shifting approach fits the band's own descriptions of its sound as melange rock and cinematic sci-fi rock, combining raw riffs, atmosphere and narrative.
Album production and track list
SONS OF ARRAKIS produced Volume III, recording at Red Tube Studio and home studios with Luc Boivin, Frederic Couture and Francis Duchesne. Karl Daniel Liden handled mixing and mastering. Alexandre Goulet at Goulet Design created the album artwork and single covers.
The supplied eight-track sequence includes two parts of ‘Shaïtan – Tale of a Divided God’, with ‘Rise of Disaster’ appearing second:
- Shaïtan – Tale of a Divided God (Part I) — 2:00
- Rise of Disaster — 4:27
- Throne of the Faithful — 3:56
- Shaïtan – Tale of a Divided God (Part II) — 2:02
- Rider of the Coriolis Stom — 4:01
- Crimson Night — 5:07
- The Disease — 4:45
- Geminae Lunae ad Perigeum — 6:33
From Montreal to international touring
SONS OF ARRAKIS emerged in June 2019, drawing inspiration from Herbert's Dune novels. Their debut, Volume I, was released on July 15, 2022. According to the supplied biography, it topped the July 2022 Doom Chart and placed eighth in that year's recap. Volume II followed on June 7, 2024, reaching third in the July Doom Charts and finishing in the year-end Top 10.
The intervening live schedule included the Interprovincial Wormhole Tour in Ontario in January 2023 and Quebec in March, followed by Quebec's Orbiting the Void Tour in June. Further Ontario dates and a Mexican tour took place that October. The biography also records the start of album recording in December 2023 and The Great Scattering Tour with SALEM'S BEND through Quebec and Ontario.
The announcement places the band's first US tour and an appearance at Planet Desert Rock Weekend IV in 2025, alongside a UK debut at Stoom Fest and European dates including Into The Void and Up In Smoke. Its account of 2026 includes a return to Europe for Krach am Bach, Rock im Wald, Free & Easy and Sauzipf Rocks, a Western Canada tour with VOIVOD, and an appearance at Infest Edmonton.
The supplied lineup comprises Frederic Couture on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Francis Duchesne on lead guitar, keyboards and percussion, Vick Trigger on bass, and Mathieu Racine on drums.
Band photograph: Remi Deschenes.
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