Skanners Give Midnight Call Two Different Release Dates

Robin Aalto · October 15, 2026

Heavy Metal

Photo: Metal Shock Finland

Skanners have shown the artwork for Midnight Call and given it two dates: digital on 30 October, physical on 27 November through Punishment 18 Records. The band named the album in September with none of that attached to it.

Four weeks between the two is a deliberate gap and an increasingly common one. A small label gets the record onto streaming while the interest is there and then sells the object to the people who were always going to buy it, rather than holding the whole thing back until the pressing plant delivers.

The band have been at this for more than forty years, which in Italian heavy metal puts them among the first generation. They have never been prolific and have never gone away either, and that is the shape of a career built entirely on the domestic scene.

Francesco Gambarini recorded, mixed and mastered it at Black Alley Studio, the same hands behind Chronosfear and Shiver Down. No song has been released yet, only the cover and the two dates.