The Vendor Room – How Much Damage Did you Do?

LunaTEKKE

LunaTEKKE

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Mar 23, 2006
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Yep, I definitely left Atlanta with my wallet lighter and my CD collection richer. Here’s this year’s haul:

Next year’s bands (purchased before the Friday night announcement)

Pagan’s Mind – God’s Equation
Fates Warning – Re-mastered Perfect Symmetry

Next year’s bands (purchased on Saturday)

Orphaned Land – Mabool – The story of the Three Sons of Seven
Brainstorm – Soul Temptation
PowerQuest – Master of Illusion
Sabaton – Metalizer

Nostalgia:

Hurricane – Slave to the Thrill
Tangier – Stranded
Vicious Rumors – Vicious Rumors
Heir Apparent – Graceful Inheritance

Recs from John at the Nightmare Records Table (Good Salesmanship!) :lol:

Memoira – Memoira
Avian – Ashes and Madness
Mindflow – Destructive Device

Other Stuff:

Avantasia – The Scarecrow
Neverland – Reversing Time
Metallica – Death Magnetic
Journey – Revelations
Suspyre – A Great Divide
Vision Divine DVD – State of Consciousness
 
Sabaton - Attero Dominatus, Nightingale - Alive Again, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Falconer - Among Beggers and Theives, Fates Warning - No Exit, Thy Majestie - Hastings 1066, Heidevolk's latest
 
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Riverside - Out of Myself
Volbeat - Live: Sold Out! DVD
Arkan - Hilal
Symphonity - Voice From the Silence
Andre Matos - Time to be Free
Brainstorm - Downburst
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

T-shirts:
Elvenking Tragedy Poet
SUE PPIX shirt from Laser's Edge table
PPIX shirt (IN SMALL!!!!!)

I would have spent more but there were a bunch of things sold out by the time I hit the vendor room Friday so have to pick them up later this year.
 
This is the first I didn't leave with 20+ cd's. In fact I only bought 1. Spent too much on other stuff.

The only cd...
Sabaton-The Art Of War (Limited Edition, the one that comes in a dvd case)

Got some DVD's...
Onslaught-Live Polish Assault 2007
Within Temptation-Black Symphony
Brainstorm-Honey from The B's
ProgPower USA VIII The DVD

and some shirts...
ProgPower IX
Helloween tour long sleave
Gamma Ray tour
Amorphis PPIX exclusive
Elvenking Legions
Iced Earth tour long sleave
 
20 CDS
2 PROGPOWER DVDS
3 SHIRTS
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$700 and 58 CDs, one DVD, and one T-shirt (just the ProgPower T-Shirt) later...

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I don't have the desire to list every single one of them, but some of the highlights include:

  • Amaseffer - Exodus : Slaves for Life
  • Andre Matos - Time to be Free
  • Andromeda - The Immunity Zone
  • Avian - Ashes And Madness
  • Cloudscape - Global Drama
  • Communic - Payment of Existence
  • Dimension - Ego
  • Eldrich - El Nino
  • Evergrey - Torn
  • Lanfear - X to the Power of 10
  • Nostradameus - Pathway
  • Royal Hunt - Collision Course
  • Saint Daemon - In Shadows Lost from the Brave
  • Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary
  • Seven Tears - In Every Frozen Tear
  • Tomorrow's Eve - All three of their current releases (nobody had their newest one, or at least I was not able to find it, so I'll have to order that through the 'net)
  • Xystus (Featuring the USConcert Orchestra) - Equilibrio : A Rock Opera I got the chance to listen to this one, and this is friggan unbelievable! Sounds incredible on my home stereo.
 
For myself:

Vadim Astrakhan - Translations of Vladimir Vysotsky: Singer, Sailor, Soldier, Spirit
Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine
Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning
Circle II Circle - Delusions of Grandeur
Mindwarp Chamber - s/t
Pentagram - Trail Blazer
Pentagram - Bir
Benedictum - Seasons of Tragedy
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man
Brainstorm - Downburst
Andromeda - Chimera

For Krusty:

Lanfear - X to the Power of Ten
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
Andromeda - The Immunity Zone
Harem Scarem - Hope
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Evergrey - Torn
Royal Hunt - Collision Course
 
Had to go light this year, due to time & money available, not to mention having to replace my car the week before PP after it was totalled in the Ike remnants flooding in Chicago.

Odin's Court - Deathanity (Thanks Rick!)
Sister Sin - Switchblade Serenades (AWESOME female fronted old school metal, This band would be an awesome PP or Showcase band, FTR...)

Evergrey - Torn - Liking this one a lot

2 cds from Morglbl - Grotesk & Toons Tunes From The past (2cd set) - AWESOME fusiony guitar stuff. Chris Godin is a FANTASTIC guitar player, and the whole band (3 piece) SLAYS....
 
I picked up 10 cd's this year:

Thy Majestie - Dawn
Evergrey - Torn
Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary
Riverside - Out of Myself
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Magician - Tales of the Magician
Seventh Wonder - Waiting In The Wings
Elvenking - The Winter Wake
Rob Rock - Holy Hell

And from the raffle, got Scelerata - Darkness and Light
 
SkiBumMSP said:
$700 and 58 CDs, one DVD, and one T-shirt (just the ProgPower T-Shirt) later...
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:OMG: That much? Holy shit Steve... I knew you bought a shitload of CDs, but I thought I was bad with my 22 CDs (will post list later).

I knew you liked heavy metal.... but in this case it definately was heavy... (carting that crap from the hotel to the MARTA and through the airport)
 
CIIC-Burden of Truth
Opeth-Watershed Collectors Edition
Suspyre-The Silvery Image
Communic-Payment of Existence
Anathema-Eternity
Katagory V-Hymns of Dissension
Tarot-To Live Again
Myrath-Hope
Orenda-A Tale of a Tortured Soul
Warrel Dane-Praises to the War Machine
Everygrey-Torn
Brainstorm-Hungry
Sabaton-Attero Dominatus
Brainstorm-Downburst
Royal Hunt-Collision Course
Fountain of Tears-Fate
Serenity-Fallen Sanctuary
Ivory Doom-Human Nature
Aviane-Ashes and Madness
Nevermore-Dead Heart in a Dead World
Power Quest-Master of Illusion
Tomorrow's Eve-Mirror of Creation 2





Shirts:
2 Amorphis
PP
JOP
Testament
Adagio
Andromeda
Hellish Rock
 
ProgPower IX Program and Sampler CD

31 CD's
Female-fronted Metal (24 - gotta do my research ;)):
Aina - Living In a Boy World
Almora - Kiyamet Seneonisi
Almora - Kalihora's Song
Crytal Viper - The Curse of the Crystal Viper
Crytal Viper - The Last Axeman
Chastain- Sick Society
Chastain - In Dementia
Chastain - In An Outrage
Dreamaker - Enclosed
Edenbridge - Shine (single)
Edenbridge - Shine
Godyva - In Good and Evil
Holy Moses - Agony of Death
Ivory Moon - Human Nature (male and female vocals)
Lana Lane - Queen of the Ocean
Memoira - S/T
Kingfisher Sky - Hallway of Dreams
Powers Court - The Red Mist of Endenmore
Seventh Seal - The Sacred Test
Sister Sin - Switchblade Serenades
Shiva - The Curse of the Gift
Valkija - Avengers of Steel
Xandria - Now and Forever
Zed Yago - Pilgrimage (a belated birthday gift from Nick)

(Major props to Dennis and the guys and gal at Sentinel Steel for taking the time to help me find many of the CDs I was looking for and point out some great new discoveries that I might not have picked up otherwise. Never before have I had a vendor who understood what I was looking for and help me so much. I can't count how many times this weekend Dennis put on a CD for me to check out and within the first minute of it playing I yelled "Sold!" Thus far I haven't been disappointed with a single thing I bought from them! :headbang:)

Male Vocals (7):
Astral Doors - New Revelation
Ekzistencia - The Storm Master
Emergency Gate - Nightly Ray
Gotthard - One Team One Spirit
Saxon - Coming to the Rescue (Out of Print 2-disc)
U.D.O. - Man and Machine
Wiszdom Stone - The Battle Rages

10 shirts:
Girlie tees - Iced Earth, Primal Fear, Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys (Thank you again, Exploding Ned's!), JoP (rather large for a size small girl's tee, but glad I got one) Helloween (actually picked this up at the show in Baltimore on Tuesday)

Helloween longsleeve w/ tourdates
Iced Earth longsleeve w/ tourdates
Elvenking longsleeve

Shirts requiring a future date with my scissors, needle and thread - Gamma Ray Land of the Free II shirt, Saint Deamon, ProgPower IX tee

2 LPs:
Edenbridge - Aphelion (Ltd. Ed. 367/500 2-LP Import)
Girlschool - Hit and Run (import picture disc)

Doro Collector's Fan Box Set (That big blue thing on top of CDInzane's DVD shelf) - For those of you that checked that box and it's price, Yes, I already own most of the stuff in that box and, Yes, Nick and I are THAT crazy as far a Doro fans go. :loco: :heh:

2 Audio Tapes:
The Great Kat - Worship Me or Die!, Beethoven on Speed
(Thanks to Exploding Ned's for these two unique finds!)

Damn! That's a lot of shit! o_O I'll post a photo in just a bit ... assuming that my bed doesn't collapse under the weight of this haul. :lol:
 
Just 7 CDs for me this year:

Andromeda - The Immunity Zone
Avian - Ashes And Madness
Mindflow - Destructive Device
Sabaton - The Art Of War - Limited Edition (Sorry again, Hoyt! :lol:)
Saga - Worlds Apart Revisited (gold badge raffle prize)
Tarot - Undead Indeed
Votum - Time Must Have A Stop

Other items I came home with:

PPUSA IX T-Shirt

Guitar/Bass Picks:

Manticora - a white one (not sure if that is Kristian's or Martin's - just has the band logo on one side and I knew Jim Dunlop U.S.A. wasn't a band member :lol:)
Gamma Ray - Kai Hansen & Dirk Schlächter
Helloween - Markus Grosskopf & Sascha Gerstner

Last but not least: one of the inflatable Helloween pumpkins :headbang:
 
I bought more shirts than anything. Like 6 I think. And 2 dvd's.

Truth be told I probably spent double what I spent at the vendors on beer. Terrible lol.
 
Hmmm...let's see.

Progpower IX t-shirt.
ICED EARTH long sleeve t-shirt with tourdates and the short sleeve t-shirt with the remake of the first album cover.
BRAINSTORM "Downburst" t-shirt.
AMORPHIS "Silent Waters" tour t-shirt
HELLOWEEN tour shirt
GAMMA RAY tour shirt
EVERGREY "The Inner Circle" tour shirt.

One DVD. BRAINSTORM "Honey from the B's LIVE"

CD's:

ROYAL HUNT "2006 Live" and "Collision Course"
CIRCUS MAXIMUS "Isolate" (Japanese release)
Two BRAINSTORM CD singles. "All Those Words" and "Fire Walk with Me"
Two TOMORROW'S EVE CD's. "The Unexpected World" and "Mirror of Creation"
ANDRE MATOS "Time to Be Free"
THERION "Live Gothic"
FATES WARNING special editions of "Awaken the Guardian", "No Exit", and "Perfect Symmetry"
PAGAN'S MIND "God's Equation"
RAGE "Carved in Stone" (European edition with DVD)
SCORPIONS "Humanity Hour I" (Japanese release)
FIREWIND "The Premonition" (Japanese release)
 
T-shirts:

Iced Earth Crucible Tour Longsleeve
Progpower IX
Gamma Ray 2008 Tour
Helloween 2008 Tour
Circle II Circle 2008 Tour
Amorphis ProgPower

CDs:

Pyramaze: Immortal
Bob Catley: Immortal
Michael Vescera: A Sign Of Things To Come
Destruction: D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
TKO: Let It Roll
TKO: In Your Face
Touch: The Complete Works
Saint Deamond: In Shadows Lost From The Brave
War Babies: S/T
Silent Call: Creations From A Chosen Path
Dream Evil: Gold Medal In Metal
Evergrey: Torn
Into Eternity: The Incurable Tragedy
 
Evergrey - Torn
Mindflow - Destructive Device
Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Rob Rock - Rage Of Creation, Holy Hell, Eyes Of Eternity
Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day
Pyramaze - Immortal
Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man
Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
The Reticent - Amor Mortem Mei Erit

Testament T-shirt....Kamelot hat won in the raffle.....

and the most metal thing ever. The Great Kat "Worship Me Or Die". Su got a rash from it. She defied the Kat, and was schooled.
 
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