PPUSA Swag

My haul was less than usual this year. Headed in to the vendor room before Symphony X to try and stock up on some more of the PPXIV bands, but didn’t realize the vendors were already packed up by then. I guess in past years, I’ve completely blown my budget long before the final changeover! :lol:

Alberto Rigoni – Three Wise Monkeys (this one caught my eye because it features Kevin Moore)
Serenity – Death & Legacy
Eumeria – Rebel Mind
Arjen Lucassen – Lost in the New Real
Myrath – Tales of the Sands
Teodor Tuff – Soliloquy (never heard of this, but it came recommended from the Nightmare table!)

Also picked up t-shirts from Beyond the Bridge and Serentity.
 
Most of my purchases were at the Nightmare Records table. Lance got my money.. AGAIN! :lol:

Cloudscape - New Era
Prototype - Catalyst
Tedor Tuff - Solioquy
End of September - S/T
Alberto Rigoni - Three Wise Monkeys
Gothic Knights - Reflections From The Other Side
Shadowside - Inner Monster Out
Hemina - Synthetic
Spheric Universe Experience - The New Eve

Also

Heaven's Cry - Wheels of Impermanence

Some dude (hi Billy) handed me a demo: Shadows In Eden - The Tower

And of course the infamous sampler discs for this year's show :)
 
Teodor Tuff – Soliloquy (never heard of this, but it came recommended from the Nightmare table!)

Bought this as well purely on recommendation by Lance. I am listening to it now, and HOLY SHIT!!!!! This really is an INCREDIBLE album!!!

But, ugh, do I really want to type in everything that I bought (Guessing 50-odd CD or so - did not really sit down and count them)

Okay, here goes....

Teodor Tuff - Solilquy (listening as I am typing this. Really good!)
Scavanger - Between the Devil and the Sea (Listened to earlier - quite good)
Cloudscape - New Era (Was listening in the truck earlier when I went out to get breakfast earlier this morning)
Hemina - Synthetic (Also listened to earlier today - some really good prog metal here)
Rage -21
Kingsbane - Kingsbane
Therion - The Miskolc Experience (with DVD)
Overlorde SR - Medieval Metal Too (I don't recall buying this, thus it must've thrown in as a "bonus", as I do recall the guy at the Heaven & Hell table telling me there was an extra CD thrown in the bag for me. That is cool as I wanted to hear this anyway, especially in light of the whole Overlorde SR vs. Overlorde thing)
ProgPower USA XIII Sampler CD
Xandria - Eversleeping (Wanted the new album as well - at least eMusic has it)
Heaven's Cry - Wheels of Impermanence (Also like to try to find their earlier material)
Imminent Sonic Destruction - Recurring Themes
Master Castle - Dangerous Diamond
Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit (Had MP3 download from eMusic, but really wanted the CD)
Periphery - Periphery
Lyreil - Leverage
Oddland - The Treachery of Senses
Illuminata - A World So Cold
Inmoria - A Farewell to Nothing (The Diary Part 1)
FireForce - March On
Forgotten Suns - Innergy
Road Distance - Flow
Seven - Freedom Call
Brainstorm - On the Spur of the Moment
Lanfear - Zero Poems (I wanted to find the one before this one as well, only to have the band themselves tell me to don't even bother :eek:)
Threshold - March of Progress
Nightmare - The Burden of God
CueRock - Tales of Future Passed
Kingcrow - Insider
Vision Divine - Destination Set to Nowhere
End of September - End of September
Alberto Rigoni - Three Wise Monkeys
Speric Universe Experience - The New Eve
Gothic Knights - Reflections From the Other Side
Shadowside - Inner Monster Out
Myrath - Tales of the Sands (Looking forward to these guys next year)
Lance King - A Moment in Chiros (He hooked me up with the special Japanese release!)
[HEADSPACE] - I Am Anonymous
The Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance (Anther case where I had the eMusic download, but wanted the actual CD as well)
Lumus - Bacchus Curse
Prototype - Catalyst
Divine Ascension - As the Truth Appears
Theocracy - As the World Bleeds
Memorain - Evolution
Order of Nine - Seventh Year of the Broken Mirror
Kemilon - Twisted Storm
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Tystnaden - Sham of Perfection
Suspyre - Suspyre (Yet another where I had the MP3 download, but wanted the CD)
Cage - Supremacy of Steel
Vangough - Kingdom of Ruin (While exiting the show after Sym X, there was a box left out with a bunch of CDs in it that said "Free grab bag", so I scored this out of there)

Also got a couple of t-shirts

Lanfear
Lance King
The 'official' ProgPower XIII t-shirt
 
thanks for picking it up! Glad i decided to bring those down with the Watchtower shirts.

Ah, I thought those might have been yours. My second choice would have been the Watchtower - Control and Resistance shirt, but then I thought if I wore it in public, people might think I was a Jehovah's Witness. :) At any rate, I always know which booth has the best shirts; over the past three years, I've gotten Xentrix, Forbidden, and Confessor shirts at the Ned's table.
 
Might as well add this as well....

Earlier today, I was over in Best Buy, and lo-and-behold, they had UNISONIC!!!! I forgot to grab a copy of that at the show, so I got a copy there at Best Buy for $10. Not only that, but the local Best Buy also had that Periphery album there as well!
 
I was going the discography completionist route and buying all cds with cash (except for Redemption albums, impulse buy on saturday)

Lance King debut - signed
Seven Kingdoms - Brothers of The Night - signed
Redemption #1
Redemption #2
Leprous #1
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
 
VERY small haul for me this year. I kept looking at the vendor tables and thinking "Shit, I already have that one!" Only nine CDs, but made off with four shirts, a bunch of mine were wearing out and I planned on that one.

Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
The Dogma - A Good Day to Die
Secret Sphere - Archetype
Love.Might.Kill - Brace for Impact
Jeff Loomis - Plains of Oblivion
Lanfear - This Harmonic Consonance
Black Majesty - Stargazer
Vicious Rumors - Razorback Killers
Desert Sin - Destination Paradise

Shirts: Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (third one I've bought, the other two have both been worn down to rags)
Grave Digger - 30 Years of Metal
Edguy - "Sweet fucking dragon" design
Nightwish - "Sweet fucking flames and shit" design

And I'm kicking myself for not getting Domain - Last Days of Utopia. I was SURE I owned that one! But I get home and it's not here... maybe next year.
 
This includes some used stuff i picked up around various stores as well.

Alcoholator Coma
Alestorm Back Through Time
Angel Dust To Dust You Will Decay
Angel Dust Into The Dark Past
Annihilator Metal
Artillery My Blood
As Blood Runs Black Instinct
Axel Rudi Pell The Circle Of The Oath
Banshee Take 'Em By Storm
Big Country The Crossing
Brainstorm Memorial Roots (Limited Edition)
BulletBoys Freakshow / Za-Za
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band Eddie And The Cruisers
Cancer Bats Dead Set On Living
Circle of Dead Children Human Harvest
Clairvoyants Word To The Wise
Clairvoyants The Shape Of Things To Come
Communic The Bottom Deep
Crimson Cult Tales Of Doom
Crystal Viper Metal Nation
Crystal Viper The Curse Of The Crystal Viper
Dawnbringer Into The Lair Of The Sun God
Deathrow Life Beyond
Destruction Cracked Brain
English Dogs To The Ends Of The Earth / Forward Into Battle
John Farnham Whispering Jack
Fist Reign Of Terror
Gorod A Perfect Absolution
Great King Rat Great King Rat
Grinder Dead End
Gun Break The Silence
H.E.A.T Address The Nation
Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar
Hartmann Balance
Havok Point Of No Return
Helstar Sins Of The Past
Hexen Being And Nothingness
Ignitor Year Of The Metal Tiger
Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt
Jeff Paris Freak Flag
Karma to Burn Karma To Burn
Katana Storms Of War
Killing Joke Outside The Gate (Reissue)
Kissin' Dynamite Addicted To Metal
Kissin' Dynamite Steel Of Swabia
Lake of Tears Moons And Mushrooms
Lake of Tears Ill Will
Chris Laney Only Come Out At Night
Liege Lord Burn To My Touch
Liege Lord Master Control
Loincloth Iron Balls Of Steel
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Ascending To Infinity
Marillion High Voltage Festival
Maroon Order
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Sing In Japanese
Monuments Gnosis
Moratti, Rob Victory
Morgana Lefay Fata Morgana
Mortal Sin Every Dog Has It's Day
Mustasch Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven
Mystic Prophecy Ravenlord
Nasty Idols Kalifornia
Nasty Idols Cruel Intentions
Nasty Idols Heroes For Sale
Nasty Idols Vicious
Nuclear Assault Out Of Order
Overlorde Return Of The Snow Giant
OZ Burning Leather
Paradox Collision Course
Pariah The Kindred
Primordial Spirit The Earth Aflame
Reckless Love Animal Attraction
Reverend Play God
Robin George Dangerous Music
Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata
Sarcofago Rotting
Sigh In Somniphobia
Skinless Progression Towards Evil
Jeff Scott Soto Damage Control
Striker Eyes In The Night/Road Warrior
System Divide The Conscious Sedation
Tankard A Girl Named Cerveza
Twelve Tribes Midwest Pandemic
Uriah Heep Into The Wild
Various Artists Shocker Soundtrack
Wigelius Reinventions
Yattering Genocide
 
This is my list......

CD's:
DREAMSCAPE - EVERLIGHT
VISION DIVINE - DESTINATION SET TO NOWHERE
GUN BARREL - POWER DIVE
GUN BARREL - BOMBARD YOUR SOUL
ODDLAND - THE TREACHERY OF SENSES
TEODOR TUFF - SOLILOQUY
SHAKRA - SELF TITLED
SPHERIC UNIVERSE EXPERIENCE - THE NEW EVE
KALEDON - LEGEND OF THE FORGOTTEN RAIN CHAPTER 2
KALEDON - TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
KALEDON - CHAPTER 1 THE DESTRUCTION
THRESHOLD - MARCH OF PROGRESS
END OF SEPTEMBER - SELF TITLED
GRAVE DIGGER - CLASH OF THE GODS
PROTOTYPE - CATALYST
CLOUDSCAPE - NEW ERA
COEXISTENCE - FLOW
CYCLONE TEMPLE - MY FRIEND LONELY
KISSIN' DYNAMITE - A STEEL OF SWABIA
KISSIN' DYNAMITE - ADDICTED TO METAL
TORA TORA - REVOLUTION DAY
WATCHTOWER - CONTROL AND RESISTANCE
ROSS THE BOSS - NEW METAL LEADERS

DVD'S:
TARJA - ACT ONE
PROGPOWER USA 12

T-SHIRTS:
PROGPOWER USA 13
NIGHTWISH
KAMELOT
SINBREED
SERENITY
SEVEN KINGDOMS
EPICA
 
PP USA XIII shirt
Kingcrow shirt

AtomA - Skylight
Bloodbound - Unholy Cross
Circle of Silence - The Blackened Halo
Eclipse - Bleed and Scream
Excalion - High Time
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
Patrick Hemer - More Than Meets The Eye
H.E.A.T. - Address The Nation
Masterplan - Time To Be King
Montrose S/T re-issue
Saxon - Call to Arms
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous expanded edition
Threshold - March of Progress
Treat - The Pleasure Principle
Vangough - Kingdom of Ruin
Voodoo Circle - Broken Heart Syndrome

Did anybody grab one of those CD openers from that guy by the bathrooms? That thing is awesome...
 
You guys have some good taste! Here's my haul:

Shirts:
Lanfear - The Art Effect

CDs:
Wisdom - Judas
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Iron Mask - Revenge Is My Name
Iron Mask - Shadow Of The Red Baron
Orden Ogan - Vale
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Last Tribe - Ritual
Cloudscape - New Era
Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
Supreme Majesty - Elements Of Creation
Teodor Tuff - Soliliquy (If anyone hasn't heard this yet, do it. Dumb band name, GREAT music)
Requiem - Requiem Forever
Manigance - D'Un Autre Sang
Winter's Verge - Beyond Vengeance
Synthphonia Suprema - The Future Ice-Age
Witchking - Hand Of Justice
White Skull - The Dark Age
Thaurorod - Upon Haunted Battlefields
Unicorn - The 13th Sign
Winterlong - The Second Coming
Anubis Gate - S/T
 
I'll post my hauls from both Dragon*Con and ProgPower. Note that these two events are on consecutive weekends next year with almost no time in-between! :kickass:

D*C Haul
Brighter Fires demo (feat. Andy Deane and Gopal Metro of Bella Morte)
SS Vendetta demo (Atl. punk/ska band comprised of metal muzos)
Profound Lore label showcase CD, courtesy John Anderson of the band Loss
The Cruxshadows, As the Dark Against My Halo
Calabrese, Dayglo Necros
Passion of Death, self-titled
Peter Pepper, Vs. the Great Whatever

one bronze auryn pendant from Crafty Celts
one bronze dragon-head armband from Crafty Celts
Hand-held pistol-style wooden catapult from Siege the Day
$5 rubber-band gun: Co-workers beware!
Hard Rock Cafe special edition Dragon*Con pins
Kevin J. Anderson, Clockwork Angels: The Novel signed and personalized by the author

Art prints:
Elven Lord by Mirana Revier
Dance of the Fire Goddess #41/100 by Charlene Taylor D'Alessio
Merlin's Magical Boutique #6/125 by Charlene Taylor D'Alessio
"Eye" Want You by Paul Bielaczyc (Sauron/Modor recruiting poster :))
Who, Me? by Sarah Clemens

"When My Dragons Are Grown, I Shall Burn Cities to the Ground" t-shirt from Game of Thrones
Calabrese (band) t-shirt


PPUSA Haul:

CDs (many of these are in addition to iTunes downloads):

Imminent Sonic Destruction, Recurring Themes
Solution .45, For Aeons Past
Prog Rock Orchestra, The Star You Are
Devin Townsend Project, Epicloud
Various, Napalm Records Label Sampler
Devin Townsend Project, Ghost
Battlelore, Sword's Song
Orphaned Land, The Road to Or Shalem - Live at the Reading 3 Tel Aviv
Redemption, This Mortal Coil
Ihsahn, Eremita
Ensiferum, Iron
Tyr, Eric the Red
Samael, Era One
King, Lance, A Moment in Chiros
Various, Progpower USA XIII sampler 3-disc
Primordial, Spirit the Earth Aflame
Primordial, Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Primordial, Imrama
Sinbreed, When Worlds Collide
Myrath, Tales of the Sands
Katatonia, Dead End Kings
Ozric Tentacles, Strangeitude (expanded reissue)
Ozric Tentacles, Paper Monkeys

PPUSA banner
PPUSA XII t-shirt
Solution .45 logo t-shirt
Dimmu Borgir t-shirt
CD opener thingie from that dude by the restroom in Vinyl (you're right, it works like a charm)
 
My PPUSA Haul. Some came from Zane's dollar bin and some came from local used CD stores.

Amaseffer: Slaves for Life
Autograph: That's the Stuff (remastered reissue)
Autograph: Sign in Please (remastered reissue)
Balance of Power: Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion
Bangalore Choir: On Target (reissue)
Banshee: Take 'em By Storm (reissue)
Coroner: Grin
D.A.M: Human Wreckage (reissue)
D.A.M: Inside Out (reissue)
Daggers Edge: self-titled
Dio: The Last in Line (deluxe)
Dio: Holy Diver (deluxe)
Dio: Sacred Heart (deluxe)
Dokken: Beast from the East
Dominus: The First 9
Doro: Under My Skin
Double Dealer: Moving Target
Enchanter: Secrets Vol. I/Symbols in Stone
Epidemic: Pandemic - The Demo Anthology
Eugenic Death: Crimes Against Humanity
Feinstein, David Rock: Bitten By the Beast
Gotthard: Firebirth
Griffin: Lifeforce
Griffin: Wasteland Serenades
H.E.A.T: Address the Nation
Hammers of Misfortune: 17th Street
Hard Stuff: Bulletproof (reissue)
Hartmann: Balance
Head On Collision: Ritual Sacrifice
Heavens Gate: Menergy
Hellish War: Defender of Metal/Heroes of Tomorrow
Hephystus: Burn the Page
House of Lords: Cartesian Dreams
Huntress: Spell Eater
Hurricane: Liquifury (reissue)
Iron Savior: Battering Ram
Joy, Benny: Crash the Rockabilly Party
Katatonia: Dead End Kings
Kim Lenz and the Jaguars: The One and Only
King Kobra: Legends Never Die
Kissin' Dynamite: Steel of Swabia
Laaz Rockit: No Stranger to Danger (reissue)
Laaz Rockit: Annihilation Principle (reissue)
Lacuna Coil: Dark Adrenaline (deluxe)
Lone Star: self-titled (reissue)
Mercenary: First Breath
Myrath: Desert Call
Nasty Idols: Cruel Intention (reissue)
Outloud: More Catastrophe EP
Overlorde: Return of the Snow Giant
Paradise Lost: Tragic Idol
Pell, Axel Rudi: Magic
the Poodles: Metal Will Stand Tall (reissue)
Powerwolf: Blood of the Saints
Primal Fear: Unbreakable
ProgPower USA XIII sampler
Ram: Death
Reckess Love: Animal Attraction
Requiem: Requiem Forever
Roulette: Better Late Than Never (reissue)
Royal Hunt: Show Me How to Live
Sacred Oath: Darkness Visible
Savage Circus: Dreamland Manor
Sea Hags: self-titled (reissue)
Seventh Avenue: Southgate
Shark Island: Law of the Order/Alive at the Whiskey
Sircle of Silence: Sircle of Silence/Suicide Candyman
Slayer: Show No Mercy
Stan Bush and Barrage: Heaven
Titanic: Screaming in Silence (reissue)
Tour de Force: World on Fire (reissue)
UFO: Force It (reissue)
UFO: Mechanix (reissue)
UFO: The Wild the Willing and the Innocent (reissue)
Unruly Child: Waiting for the Sun
Vanden Plas: the Seraphic Clockwork
Warrior Soul: Chill Pill (reissue)
Warrior Soul: Space Age Playboys (reissue)
Watchtower: Control and Resistance (reissue)
White Widdow: self-titled
Within Temptation: the Unforgiving
 
This includes some used stuff i picked up around various stores as well.

Alcoholator Coma
Alestorm Back Through Time
Angel Dust To Dust You Will Decay
Angel Dust Into The Dark Past
Annihilator Metal
Artillery My Blood
As Blood Runs Black Instinct
Axel Rudi Pell The Circle Of The Oath
Banshee Take 'Em By Storm
Big Country The Crossing
Brainstorm Memorial Roots (Limited Edition)
BulletBoys Freakshow / Za-Za
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band Eddie And The Cruisers
Cancer Bats Dead Set On Living
Circle of Dead Children Human Harvest
Clairvoyants Word To The Wise
Clairvoyants The Shape Of Things To Come
Communic The Bottom Deep
Crimson Cult Tales Of Doom
Crystal Viper Metal Nation
Crystal Viper The Curse Of The Crystal Viper
Dawnbringer Into The Lair Of The Sun God
Deathrow Life Beyond
Destruction Cracked Brain
English Dogs To The Ends Of The Earth / Forward Into Battle
John Farnham Whispering Jack
Fist Reign Of Terror
Gorod A Perfect Absolution
Great King Rat Great King Rat
Grinder Dead End
Gun Break The Silence
H.E.A.T Address The Nation
Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar
Hartmann Balance
Havok Point Of No Return
Helstar Sins Of The Past
Hexen Being And Nothingness
Ignitor Year Of The Metal Tiger
Internal Bleeding Voracious Contempt
Jeff Paris Freak Flag
Karma to Burn Karma To Burn
Katana Storms Of War
Killing Joke Outside The Gate (Reissue)
Kissin' Dynamite Addicted To Metal
Kissin' Dynamite Steel Of Swabia
Lake of Tears Moons And Mushrooms
Lake of Tears Ill Will
Chris Laney Only Come Out At Night
Liege Lord Burn To My Touch
Liege Lord Master Control
Loincloth Iron Balls Of Steel
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Ascending To Infinity
Marillion High Voltage Festival
Maroon Order
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Sing In Japanese
Monuments Gnosis
Moratti, Rob Victory
Morgana Lefay Fata Morgana
Mortal Sin Every Dog Has It's Day
Mustasch Sounds Like Hell, Looks Like Heaven
Mystic Prophecy Ravenlord
Nasty Idols Kalifornia
Nasty Idols Cruel Intentions
Nasty Idols Heroes For Sale
Nasty Idols Vicious
Nuclear Assault Out Of Order
Overlorde Return Of The Snow Giant
OZ Burning Leather
Paradox Collision Course
Pariah The Kindred
Primordial Spirit The Earth Aflame
Reckless Love Animal Attraction
Reverend Play God
Robin George Dangerous Music
Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata
Sarcofago Rotting
Sigh In Somniphobia
Skinless Progression Towards Evil
Jeff Scott Soto Damage Control
Striker Eyes In The Night/Road Warrior
System Divide The Conscious Sedation
Tankard A Girl Named Cerveza
Twelve Tribes Midwest Pandemic
Uriah Heep Into The Wild
Various Artists Shocker Soundtrack
Wigelius Reinventions
Yattering Genocide

with a few notable exceptions (like that Annihilator album - one of their worst imo!) this is an epic haul. That Hexen joint is incredible btw, have you heard it yet?
 
with a few notable exceptions (like that Annihilator album - one of their worst imo!) this is an epic haul. That Hexen joint is incredible btw, have you heard it yet?

Working my way to Hexen. I am completest and it's one of the only Annihilator's i don't own. Some other stuff i just took some risks on because Zane's sale pricing on Saturday always gets my panties wet and i go crazy.
 
CD's

Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
Blind Guardian - Memories Of A Time To Come (3 disc version for $8!!!)
Clairvoyants - The Shape Of Things To Come
Coexistence - Flow
Destination's Calling - End Of Time
Elvenking - Wyrd
Manigance - Ange Ou Demon
Mercenary - First Breath
Nightmare - The Burden Of God
ProgPower USA Sampler
Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

ProgPower USA XIII Shirt
Solution .45 Exclusive ProgPower Shirt
 
how does it sound? i am curious since the tapes were lying around for years and wound up on Ebay. hahaha.

thanks for letting me know!

The Unreleased 3rd Tora Tora disc has incredible sound! I've had it for awhile, never knew why this band got put on a shelf...goddamn Nirvana