Death From Above 1979 OR Varge! (local band) cd release party. (that show was legendary.)

oh man, seeing napalm death would have ruled!

loudest show here was one i played in kelso a few month ago in someones living room. i played like third, after i was done my ears were wrecked for the rest of the night. i could barely carry on a conversation in dead silence afterwards.

another loud one was in eugene over the summer, but they had really nice PA setup so even though it was fucking loud it didnt hurt or damage my ears at all.

i remember paulybee telling a story of a truman's water show in ireland where the band was so loud the whole place was shaking and afterwards, the place got condemned.

it depends on the place a lot; i saw slayer in 2004 in an open amphitheater and the play was loud as fuck, then i saw them a couple of weeks ago in a club that's practically a huge concrete storage room and the sound got all absorbed by the walls, it wasn't as loud as when i saw them 2 years ago...they had wall to wall, floor to selling marshall stacks so it wasn't like the band was faultering or something.

They're still going. They're good, but probably not up to their hayday.

I lost track of them afterwards, but around the time when Scum was out, they were electrifying.

yeah but a) no one from the classic lineup is in the band anymore (unless you count shane embury, who came later), b) they have sucked ever since lee dorian left the band when they started to slow down their sound c) they haven't released a decent album in almost 20 years d) barney greenway is an awful singer and e) going to see them assures you something like 1 hour-plus of nu metal for every 30 seconds of whatever song from their first two albums they still play.

Ministry, 6th November 1992, Paradiso, Amsterdam.

Yeah, I saw them too (in their heyday) and they were really loud.

Lucky dog. that was around their peak i believe. I used to play "So What" pretty damn loud in my car...and often. i never got sick of that bass line.

no. they are dead to me.

Monster Magnet at an outdoor gig in Adelaide during Superjudge period, it was too loud even outside....

I saw two Japanese sludge bands Burishyana and Ryojuki (spelling) in a room about the size of my living room. Ryojuki was a bass player and a drummer, the bass player was playign through 3 amps, fuckin loud. Burishyana was a guitarist, bass player, a drummer and two dudes smashing industrial waste bins, stacks of broken symbols hub caps etc. INTENSE!

Members of both bands were/are in Corrupted.

After that show I invested in earplugs

everyneurotic, concrete doesn't absorb sound. i think you waited too long to invest in some quality ear plugs.

the loudest show i've seen (and i've been seeing shows for almost 30 years now) was Boris, a couple of months ago. massive amounts of Orange and Sunn heads and cabs packed into a tiny (>200 capacity) room.

Shannon Wright, opening for Sleater Kinney in 2002 at the Highlands in Hollywood.... sk was pretty fucking loud too.

it was the first time my ears ever truly rang, and it sounded like I was at the bottom of a pool for the next two days. but oh the joy of such sonic abuse! I've been chasing loudness like a crackhead chasing his tale for years now...

Mono

Dinosaur Jr. last december and Mission of Burma in July since my face was about 3 feet from Roger Miller's amp. Lightning Bolt was one of the most dissapointing NOT as loud as i suspected bands ever. But they were still fantastic.

the fuck do i know what that place is made of...and a few weeks earlier i saw acid mothers temple and they were louder than slayer (they had smaller amps but i was closer to the stage and the place was much smaller) so i know what loud is.

i just go by what you type.

Concrete does make things less loud, dear. Whether it absorbs sound or just distorts the sound. I've seen many a shows and I can tell you the difference.