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Cover picture of Norbert Krueler aka Shamall from his latest release "Schizophrenia"

Shamall – the official pages

Category: Press

  • Review of Schizophrenia from „Strutter’zine“ (8,5 / 10)

    c/o Gabor Kleinbloesem, Strutter’zine, NL The German band SHAMALL has a long history, but in short it learns that it started in the early 1970s when a young NORBERT KRÜLER began listening to the records of LED ZEPPELIN, JIMI HENDRIX, PINK FLOYD and those of German Krautrockbands. He started training to learn and play the…

  • “Surprise of the month: Shamall – Schizophrenia!” – Rock City (13 / 15)

    c/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands – except in Hard Rock / Heavy Metal) “Value for Money” is particularly important.The fans should get real pleasure from the product CD. With the new double album by Shamall the package is extremely impressive: double-folding…

  • “…A captivating journey through a variety of musical styles…”

    c/o Sluchacz, Akademia Art Rocka (PL) The German progressive rock is not very popular in our country. However, it turns out that sometimes it is worth looking for it. Recently, one of my friends recommended the latest album by Shamall to me, with the title “Schizophrenia”. The band name didn’t tell me much, although Norbert…

  • “…Clearly Kruler’s strengths are in his arrangements…”

    c/o Andrew Cottrell, Background Magazine, NL Shamall is the pseudonym used by German DJ, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Norbert Kruler who released his first work in the late 1980s, influenced by Krautrock as well as mainstream electronic music, although over time he has been more heavily influenced by the progressive music scene and has incorporated a…

  • Progwereld: “Shamall – Schizophrenia”

    c/o Progwereld, Dick van der Heijde Norbert Krüler was born in Emsdetten on 6 December 1957. But if you look at Wikipedia, you won’t find him among the famous citizens of Emsdetten and that’s definitely wrong. Krüler is not only a highly talented multi-instrumentalist, with keyboards as his main instrument, he can also compose and…

  • “This album is a real musical patchwork that summarizes 4 decades of progressive rock”

    c/o Tiro from Prog Censor “Shamall – Schizophrenia”: Prog/Electro/Rock/Classic: 77’01 / 73’27, Germany ’19. I have to tell you right at the beginning that Shamall, despite his career of over 35 years, has disappeared under my radar. And so I find it difficult to discuss this album with a nostalgic view on it. It’s even…

  • Eclipsed Rock Magazin: “One of his most exciting works…”

    Norbert Krüler alias Shamall doesn’t do it under a double-album. This time he deals with the shoals of the human mind to mental illness, uncomfortable truths and agonizing self-discovery. Musically, he spans exactly the same cosmos as always, namely Floydy sceneries, equipped with strong electronic means, but also hard guitars, but he succeeds with “Schizophrenia”…

  • Babyblue Pages: “…Versatile Spaceprog…”

    …and another excerpt of a review from the babyblue pages: “….Musically, “Turn Off” features spacey versions of neoprog, hard rock, prog metal and art rock throughout. It is quite contrasting how the music can change between soft keyboard clouds and slamming drums to howling guitars. It also shows the numerous possibilities that the compounds between…

  • Music Circus Magazine: Shamall – Turn Off (review)

    by Stephan Schelle, music circus magazine Shamall, that is the multi-instrumentalist Norbert Krüler. For a more than 27 years he has been releasing his music, which is a mixture of melodic, progressive, art, krautrock and electronic. Aiming at the fact that his last work “Is this human behavior” was released back in 2009, one might…