{"id":97,"date":"2020-09-29T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:42:48","slug":"surprise-of-the-month-shamall-schizophrenia-rock-city-13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/2020\/09\/29\/surprise-of-the-month-shamall-schizophrenia-rock-city-13-15\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSurprise of the month: Shamall \u2013 Schizophrenia!\u201d \u2013 Rock City (13 \/ 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>c\/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands\u2014except in hard rock\/heavy metal), &#8220;value for money&#8221; 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: a double-folding digipak, a lavish booklet, and, with 22 songs, a playing time potential that has been fully exploited. And the 18-minute opener and, at the same time, title track is a real reference song for the prog rock\/krautrock band from Germany. Massive, with furious build-up, absolutely perfectly produced, and qualitatively equal to the &#8220;Intro\/Welcome&#8221; cult song by Streetmark (from the Dry album).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There is no better way to celebrate prog rock! The album contains an incredible number of highlights in the period that followed, such as the hard &#8220;The Inconvenient Truth p.I and p.II,&#8221; the instrumental but furious &#8220;On the Run,&#8221; or the somehow catchy &#8220;Foolin&#8217; Myself,&#8221; to name just a few.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Maybe the best Kraut and Prog album of the last 20 years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">c\/o Rock City, September 2020<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/shamall.de\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/IMG-Rezi-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>c\/o Rock City Magazine, Bremen In times like these (streams, poor CD sales, hardly any loyalty to the bands\u2014except in hard rock\/heavy metal), &#8220;value for money&#8221; 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: a double-folding digipak, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37,50,51,52,46,53],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-krautrock","tag-perfectly-produced","tag-prog","tag-reference-song","tag-shamall","tag-streetmark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shamall.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}