Prog Power V lineup announced.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:43 am

CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF SAVATAGE "UNITE" TO HEADLINE PROGPOWER V

ATLANTA – Current and former members of Savatage will unite for one night only to headline ProgPower V this September in Atlanta.

The festival, which will be held September 17 and 18 at Earthlink Live, will feature Jon Oliva, Zak Stevens, Chris Caffery, and Steve "Dr. Kill Drums" Wacholz performing a set from Savatage's entire discography in an exclusive performance. In addition to the full set, fans can expect a sneak preview of Jon Oliva's "Tage Mahal."

"I'm really excited about this show,” said Stevens. “The last time I did a full show with these guys was at the PopComm Festival in Germany 1999. I've been waiting for the right time for us to get together. That time has come and where better than the ProgPower festival?"

Added Jon Oliva: "We've been talking with Zak about doing a special show ever since he left Savatage, but it's really hard to get every one's schedules together for a rare event like this. It was nearly impossible this time around and it probably won't ever happen again, so we'll make this one special! We plan on playing several songs we rarely ever performed live...this should be good!”

Germany’s Edguy will return to Atlanta after an overwhelming response at 2002’s ProgPower III. "ProgPower was our first big step in the USA as a band,” said Edguy vocalist Tobias Sammet. “Glenn (the promoter) had the balls to take the risk and build something over there to support the music we all love so much but was claimed DEAD in the USA not long ago. Well, for ‘dead’ people, all the lovely fans there down in front of the stage looked pretty good."

ProgPower II veterans Kamelot will also make a return appearance at the festival. “We are very pleased to be returning for ProgPower V,” said Thomas Youngblood. “ProgPower is the highest class of the US festivals and gives many metal fans a chance to see the bands that do not get to tour the US. We are planning to play songs from our previous albums, as well as some new ones from the upcoming album that we are currently in production with. And there are always some nice surprises with our live shows.”

Progressive metal icons Pain of Salvation will perform an exclusive set for ProgPower USA this year. The set list will be picked entirely by the fans via online voting. Details will be announced via the festival website in the coming weeks.

In ProgPower tradition, several European bands will make North American debuts - Denmark’s Wuthering Heights, Germany’s Dreamscape, and France’s Adagio – with Germany’s Brainstorm, Sweden’s Tad Morose, and Canada’s Into Eternity rounding out the lineup.

Tickets will go on sale May 1 via all Ticketmaster outlets. Only 900 tickets will be made available to the public once again. Gold Badges (special patron tickets) are already sold-out.

Tickets for the 1,500-seat venue have sold out within two weeks for the past two shows.

"People keep asking me why I don't move to a bigger venue since the show sells out every year,” said promoter Glenn Harveston. “Well, the success of ProgPower USA is not based only on the roster and tickets sold, but the intimacy and atmosphere that I am able to create. It's what makes this show unique here in the States."

Sponsorship, CD sampler, and program advertising information is available at www.progpowerusa.com.

Seems like Glenn made good on his promise of pissed off Euro's... We get to see Savatage, and they don't.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:14 am

CRAP!! YOU BEAT ME TO IT !

This year's line up looks KICK ASS!! It always seems that every year half the bands I like/love and the other half I simply don't care for. As someone else said, it does look to be a well rounded festival - there's symphonic, progressive, power, heavy, gothic & dark (I think).

Forget anime conventions, I've seen it all, downloaded it all, and experienced it all. I'm going to ProgPowerUSA. God knows the 'TRUE' metal scene in American needs our support.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:47 pm

sweet, rub, I'll meet you down there. Probably have flint going as well. Should be a blast, though. Already got 2 rooms booked at the Granada. None of these bands really do it for me this year, though. I'm kind of looking forward to Savatage, and I'm really disappointed that Kamelot is headlining. I wanted to see Sonata Artica really bad. *shrug* ... they weren't avalible.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:50 pm

YES!!!!!!!!!!

Adagio, Pain of Salvation, Kamelot... :drools:

Adagio is going to be awesome. \m/

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:36 pm

I was hoping to tell you about Adagio when you got online. So are you definitely going then?

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:44 pm

Depends on money but since I start working in a few days, I think I'll be able to. \m/

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:41 am

sweet nillies. I'll see if I can secure you a roomspot