Forty four years in and the date still gets announced before the song does, and Skanners will release the video for "Together We'll Win" on 16 November.
The song comes from Midnight Call, the album the band named in October. They say it deals with the loss of someone loved. The record had two different release dates attached to it at one point, which they have since settled.
It is their eighth full length and the first since Temptation in 2019, after Factory of Steel in 2011, The Serial Healer in 2008, Flagellum Dei in 2001, The Magic Square in 1996, Pictures of War in 1988 and the debut Dirty Armada in 1986, with a compilation in 2021.
Skanners formed in Bolzano in 1982 and two of the men who started it are still in it: Claudio Pisoni has sung from the first year and Fabio Tenca has had a guitar just as long. Walther Unterhauser took the second guitar in 1999 after a spell in 1987, Tomas Valentini plays bass and Christian Kranauer is back on drums since 2019.
Nothing from "Together We'll Win" is online yet; the video above is "Starlight MMXXIV", the most recent clip on the band's own channel.