SunnO))) are extremely loud, but I think MBV were louder.

Khanate's crazy loud too, my brother brought them to a tiny venue and he says the ground was shaking outside the venue

DINOSAUR JR
loud as hell.

when? this year? i missed them this year

thurston, nels cline, william winant and mats
gustaffson at atp la 2002. afterwards i found
myself barely able to hear having a conversation
with someone barely able to talk.

hmm, I happened to catch Mono playing in a record store before I saw Black Dice once, both of those bands were pretty loud.
However, I think Animal Collective was the loudest show I've seen recently.

Petrol club in Gent, somewhere in the beginning of this year.

The Cramps in 1991. I got to pogo on Human Fly, which was rather silly for a guy like me (I could have played a hobbit in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings). It didn't take long for me to find myself lying on the floor. Somebody helped me, I stood up, carried on dancing in a safer spot but had to stop eventually. The safe spot was close to the right speaker. And Surfin' Bird was blasting out of it. I felt really sick.

I can't remember if JSBE was so loud back in 1996, but it was certainly wild from the start (RL Burnside trying to cool things down).

I have been to a LOT of shows. The two loudest shows I have had the pleasure to see were Dinosaur Jr last year and my very first concert ever, David Lee Roth during the Eat Em & Smile Tour. LOUD painfulll

Melvins or Wolf Eyes. Not the same show, just the two loudest sets I've ever experianced.

ohh okay its not what i was thinking about, the other show was in amsterdam i think

ahh, i had a wonderful time, so many shitheads in one place, if i wasn't peeing myself with laughter from one thing it was from another.

They had a show next day in amsterdam.
HAH sucks to be you.

i know

Napalm Death
 

The Ramones were pretty loud.

But I have to agree with the geezer who already mentioned Motorhead.

Motorhead were indeed loud.

But Napalm Death were fucking LOUD!!!

i missed motörhead when they came a few years ago, i kick myself for it.
i wish i could have seen napalm death when they were good.

Borbetomagus
Tonic, NYC
2001 or 2002

a monitor caught on fire and Chris Corsano (working sound) ran it out of there. Loud.

Paper Rad, it was in a small basement. Amps at almost full volume in a basement=do the math

keep in mind I do not go to live shows very much

slayer.

either MASCIS & THE FOG in 2001 or DINOSAUR JR last month.

i think my ears are still ringing.