PPUSA XVI - Merch Haul

From a friend in the area:

Enchant - A Blueprint of the World
Enchant - Wounded
Enchant - Break
Ethereal Scourge - Judgement and Restoration
Fourth Estate - See What I See
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
The Flower Kings - Rainmaker
Tourniquet - Psychosurgery
Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall

From the merch tables:
Anubis Gate - Horizons
Arcane - Known/Learned
Kingcrow - Eidos
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Suspyre - When Time Fades...
Threshold - Wounded Land
Voyager - The Meaning of I
Voyager - V
Wingdom - Reality

 

Thanks to everyone who came by the Divebomb/Tribunal Records table and picked something up or took a free sampler CD/digital download card. Our first "solo" year was a ton of fun and good seeing so many people already familiar with the work we do at the label(s).

 

Came in under budget this year (for the first time ever) with the reduced # of vendors. I was surprised that I couldn’t find the new Queensryche or Iron Maiden, but did come home with some good stuff.

CDs:

Anuryzm - All Is Not For All
Chaos Frame - Paths to Exile
Edguy - Space Police
Damnation Angels - The Valiant Fire
Redemption - Live from the Pit
Serous Black - As Daylight Breaks (signed by Urban; possibly the best band name ever!)

DVDs:

Imaginaerum (the movie) DVD
Need - Orvam: A Song for Atlanta

T-Shirt:

My t-shirt collection is getting out of control, but HAD to have the red Voyager one with “EPIC ELECTRO PROGRESSIVE POWER POP METAL” on the back!

 

Well Queensryche's not out yet.

 

It was great to have a decent selection of your catalogue there! I wish I could have bought more but I came in about double my budget haha!

You still got me for 9 cd's!

 

Evergrey work shirt
Evergrey signed poster
Ashes of Ares work shirt
Ashes of Ares t-shirt
Saxon Warriors of the Road t-shirt
Saxon Crest t-shirt
Saxon Hoody
Helker t-shirt
Falconer Final Show t-shirt
Royal Hunt t-shirt
PPUSA XVI t-shirt

From Impulse Music booth:
Iced Earth Glorious Burden t-shirt
Iced Earth Overture of the Wicked t-shirt
Death Angel Ultra-Violence t-shirt

 

A Progpower shirt and a Progpower lanyard

 

I have a problem. A huge problem.

 

I bought a fest shirt.

 

ProgPower XVI shirt
Angra ProgPower shirt
Evergrey Acoustic show shirt
Scanner - Mental Reservation CD
Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy CD (free with fest shirt)

 

1 Urban Breed shirt
1 Serious Black XVII shirt
3 Voyager shirts
2 Angra shirts
2 Dragonland shirts
1 Midweek Mayhem VIP shirt
2 PPUSA XVI festival shirts
1 Helker shirt
1 Dynazty shirt
1 Falconer shirt
1 Evergrey hoodie
1 Evergrey work shirt
5 Evergrey shirts
1 autographed Evergrey poster
1 huge bottle of Jack Daniels, consumed by Evergrey and autographed by same
24"x36" banners for XV and XVI

13 CDs (Dragonland, Judicator, Evergrey, Darkology, Serious Black, Dimension, Pyramaze, Scanner, Blackhelm)

Need's DVD

6 pounds of Gummi Bears.

I think that's about it.

 

You win the merch war!:hotjump:

 

My merch haul from ProgPowerUSA XVI.....only went $40 over the budget this year! Haha!

CD's:
THE SCOURGE – FIRST COMES DESTRUCTION
HIBRIA – ST
SAXON – DESTINY
PRETTY MAIDS – SIN-DECADE
WILD DOGS – REIGN OF TERROR
ERADIKATOR – DYSTOPIA
VINDICATOR – UNITED WE FALL
AGE OF ARTEMIS – THE WAKING HOUR
NIGHTMISTRESS – INTO THE MADNESS
ANURYZM – ALL IS NOT FOR ALL
RIVERSIDE – LOVE,FEAR AND THE TIME MACHINE
CHAOS FRAME – PATHS TO EXILE
ZZ TOP – GREATEST HITS
CONSTANCIA – FINAL CURTAIN
DYNAZTY – BRING THE THUNDER
CHRIS CAFFERY – YOUR HEAVEN IS REAL
RUNNING WILD – THE BROTHERHOOD
RUNNING WILD – VICTORY
RUNNING WILD – THE RIVALRY
AXXIS – BACK TO THE KINGDOM
TT QUICK – METAL OF HONOR
HELLOWEEN – MY GOD GIVEN RIGHT ARTBOOK

Shirts:
PROG POWER – EVENT SHIRT XVI
FALCONER – LAST LIVE PERFORMANCE SHIRT
FALCONER – GREY SHIRT
DYNAZTY – PP SHIRT
ANUBIS GATE – HORIZONS SHIRT
HELKER – RUNS IN MY BLOOD AND YOURS SHIRT
RIVERSIDE – LOVE, FEAR AND THE TIME MACHINE SHIRT
VOYAGER – THE MEANING OF I SHIRT
DRAGONLAND – THE BATTLE GOES ON SHIRT
GHOST SHIP OCTAVIUS – GLOW IN THE DARK SHIRT
OVERKILL – FELL THE FIRE SHIRT
SERIOUS BLACK – SETTING FIRE TO PP USA XVII SHIRT
TRAIL OF MURDER – SHADES OF ART SHIRT
SAXON – WARRIORS OF THE ROAD SHIRT
ANGRA – HOLY LAND CELEBRATION CONCERT SHIRT

 

My wife was thrilled to no end.

 

A wide variety of CDs. Only 17 on the first day, but I ended up with 11 more on Saturday. I got bored during Riverside and went to go pick through the tables more carefully when there were fewer crowds there to rush me.

Unleash the Archers - Time Stands Still
Ascendia - The Lion and the Jester
Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
Dark Sarah - Behind the Black Veil
Signum Regis - Exodus
Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
Andromeda - II = I
Gamma Ray - Empire of the Undead
Butcher Babies - Take it Like a Man
Judicator - At the Expense of Humanity
Therion - Theli
Death Dealer - War Master
Opeth - Deliverance
Dragonland - Under the Grey Banner
Withem - The Point of You
Voices of Destiny - Crisis Cult
Twilight of the Gods - Fire on the Mountain
Dynazty - Renatus
Most Principium Est - Dawn of the Fifth Era
Royal Hunt - A Life to Die For
Symphony X - Underworld
Secret Sphere - Mistress of the Shadow light
Nightingale - Retribution
Rhapsody of Fire - Dark Wings of Steel
Pagan's Mind - Infinity Divine
Royal Hunt - Show Me How to Live

Also: Dragonland and Royal Hunt tees. I would have given my thumbs for one of the Falconer shirts, but they sold out before I even knew they were there.

 

I used to thrill my wife to no end. But that ended many moons ago lol

 

That could also be one of my "Quotes of the week"...

"... get that thing away from me. You're gonna be late for the show!"

(me)...this is the best part of the show baby "

her..."lol yeah right..."

 

I rarely/never wear band shirts. I do feel bad I didn't get a Falconer one but they were gone almost immediately. I was pretty certain I pre-ordered it online too. . .I just never received any confirmation regarding it.

Shirts

1 ProgPower shirt
1 Dragonland ProgPower-exclusive shirt

CDs

Native Construct - Quiet World (and signed by the band)
SoulSpell - Hollow's Gathering
Vandroya - One (finally found another physical copy to replace the one that was stolen out of my car in 2013!)
Viathyn - Cynosure
Winterborn - Cold Reality (another one I thought I'd never find; I talked to their guitarist a few years back and he said that he didn't have any physical copies of the album left)

I should've spent some more time browsing CDs but there was just so much else to do! I loved what I found. And so inexpensive! Next year I'm going all-out.

 

The Merchbooth preorders were pretty awesome. Between that and my Camden Cruz "Save me one of everything Evergrey" preorders, I had 3/4 of my shopping done before I got to Atlanta.