[_slavo_]

Soulfly was pretty fucking loud, as far as I remember.

[batreleaser]

soulfly, i used to love their song with the guy from slipknot, "jump da fuck up"

when i was 12 years old i was totally a fat metalhead type

[Derek]

Loudest show I've been to has been Melvins/Flipper.

[Death & the Maiden]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

i absolutley love the scientists, soooooo underrated. only australia band that can rival the birthday party, but i never even thought of them as loud really.

What about The Saints, Laughing Clowns, Ed Kuepper, The Triffids?

[Death & the Maiden]

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

He's right.

No he's not right, if you look harder you'll find good Australian music.

[purplebumblebee]

For me off the top of my head, SY, Boredoms, Glenn Branca 100 guitars got insanely loud at one point, couldnt think straight after that one.

[radarmaker]

Originally Posted by Glice

The first tour of their I saw was, I think, their first proper British tour. '97, if memory serves. It just before Young Team. Which is getting its 10th anniversary release this year. So it was, in fact, '98. Anyway. They were sick loud in a small-ish, sweaty venue. The sort of venue that I'd be very happy to sell out, but much smaller than the sort of places Mogwai play now. The whole room's legs buckled during the loud bit on Like Herod, which was astonishing at the time (given that everyone had only heard Ten Rapid at that point). Ah, rose-tinted nostalgia, excuse me.

Yeah, I first saw them in Feb '98 in a similarly small venue in Derby, but from memory the Nottingham gig in '99 just after the untitled EP was the loudest.
Oh, and Young Team was '97 - the anniversary package was delayed for some reason...

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by Death & the Maiden

No he's not right, if you look harder you'll find good Australian music.

sorry dude, didnt mean to talk shit on your homeland or something. theres just this conception in america of australia having really terrible music, but youre right its gotta be there if you look for it.

[fluxequalsrad]

Originally Posted by ricechex

I'd have to say Dinosaur Jr by a snot. MBV was real close as well as HUM.

you have seen HUM live, I can't beleive it.

The loudest for me was (like everyone else) - Dinosaur Jr. I brought ear plugs and it was in a tiny hall with a pretty small concert P.A., still got destroyed.

On another note, the QUIETEST show I've ever been too was Yo La Tengo at the beggining of April. It was a half-acoustic show, and the crowd was so quiet during 'Nowhere Near' that I could hear Georgia's finger nails silently tapping on the snare keeping the beat before any drums had kicked in... it was spine tingling.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

Soulfly was pretty fucking loud, as far as I remember.

i totally saw soulfly in 2001, the best was when he played the old sepultura songs.

i got hit in the chest with an elbow on the pit on that one and i had been up all night the night before because i went to a wedding with my then girlfriend.

[demonrail666]

Swans in around '87. I honestly can't do justice to exactly how loud they actually were other than to say that MBV on the Loveless tour a few years later sounded like an 'MTV unplugged' session in comparison. My ears are still ringing some 20+ years later.

Electric Wizard aren't anywhere near as loud as the Swans were in those days, but they do manage to get this tone that virtually splits my brain in half. So, while they may not be the loudest, they're still one of the most sonically-painfull bands I've heard.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Glice

I think generally that club speakers tend to be louder than venue speakers. There was a time when I was spending a lot of time in D n'B clubs watching Rush & Optical or Nicky Blackmarket every week it seems, and the bass was always brutal. I've been a few proper dark raves where the sound system has been beyond shredding.

I know that Dillinja and Lemon D toured their Valve sound system with a home made PA that supposedly had da massive spontaneously shitting itself whenever the Reese bass-lines started kicking in.

Played at the right volume, Ed Rush's stuff can sound almost physical.

[Trasher02]

Has dinosaur jr. been mentioned already?

[demonrail666]

I was thinking of mentioning them. Not the loudest i've heard, but certainly up there.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

...
Electric Wizard aren't anywhere near as loud as the Swans were in those days, but they do manage to get this tone that virtually splits my brain in half. So, while they may not be the loudest, they're still one of the most sonically-painfull bands I've heard.

you know what? that's how melt-banana were, although they were very very loud, it had more to do with having this sound that filled every frequency and attacked the eardrums in all fronts.

[batreleaser]

melt banana is just an extremly talented group of musicians, they maintain control over their sound no matter how loud and chaotic the songs get.

my favorite part of a melt banana show is when they do the "6 short songs" and they literally blast through 6 songs in less than 2 minutes.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I know that Dillinja and Lemon D toured their Valve sound system with a home made PA that supposedly had da massive spontaneously shitting itself whenever the Reese bass-lines started kicking in.

Played at the right volume, Ed Rush's stuff can sound almost physical.

On the Dancehall tip, I saw Bounty Killa a fair few years ago, and while it wasn't loud in terms of 'by God I can't hear myself think', everything was ramped waaaaay up in the red and the clothes were as loud as the loudest thing. Very, very busy crowd.

[demonrail666]

I once contemplated going to see Bounty Killer in a club in Clapton a few years back. Doubt I would've survived to tell the tale if I had. Proper moody following when he plays in da 'hood.

Were you cucking for a lady into BBC at the time, Glice?

[Glice]

I'm just down with the dancehall is all. No-one to go with me these days, regrettably.

[batreleaser]

nadja was very loud, forgot about that one.