What's the loudest band you've ever seen live.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Like, so loud you felt your insides vibrating.

 

For me, it's a tie between rapper Dälek and the "neo-psychadelic" band Secret Machines.

[Steviekick 0]

Mötorhead.

 

My ears were ringing for about a week. After them I started wearing earplugs to shows.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Ministry was pretty loud.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Inc- Do you have the Secret Machines album? I'm wondering whether or not they're worth checking out.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

Motorhead was rather loud when I saw them, but Flogging Molly was unFUCKINGbelieveably loud when I saw them last year. My ears rang for damn near 4 days.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

Slayer.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Inc- Do you have the Secret Machines album? I'm wondering whether or not they're worth checking out.

It's decent shoegaze-type stuff. Nothing original, but they do it well enough.

[Guest tangerine]

I went to Ozzfest today.

 

Darkest Hour, Lamb of God were pretty loud but Slayer wasn't but that could be easily credited to it being an ampetheater.

[B. Brian Brunzell 0]

How was Judas Priest?

[Guest Fire and Knives]

Snapcase. They opened for Bad Religion and it was the loudest, most mind-destroying thing I ever heard. Every time the drummer hit the snare, I had to check to see if I was bleeding from the ears.

 

Goddamn it, they were a terrible band.

 

K.

[godthedog 0]

air supply.

[Masked Man of Mystery 0]

I went to this thing that the Catholic church was doing the year I was confirmed basically not by choice, I pretty much had to and they had Sixpence None the Richer playing at times. I was way back in where they were playing(a baseball stadium) and I thought I was gonna go deaf, either from how high they had the speakers jacked up or how awful they were

[Guest FrigidSoul]

That band I spoke of in a previous thread, Rawhead Rex. I was like 14 when I saw them and it was in this small place that had concerts from local bands each week. They rocked the place hardcore and my ears rang for 2 days following it. Think of that episode of the Simpsons where Bart is going to see Spinal Tap and Homer says "I went to tons of loud concerts and I'm fine". Then they allow the viewer to hear what Homer hears and its just a loud continued tone with low voices under it. That's what it was like for 2 days after that concert. Amazing band and after the show the guitarist actually let me hold his guitar and fire off a few chords.

[Red Baron 0]

Motorhead followed by Big Sugar.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Either Metallica or Rancid.

 

I saw Deftones when I was younger and they were pretty loud as well.

[Guest FrigidSoul]

CWM owns the single to Ruby So-Ho

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Fear Factory was brutal loud at their Calgary club show in 2001. The place shook to the gound when FF, Puya, and Dry Kill Logic got together and played Edge Crusher for the finale. I got my ass handed me in the pit and it was glorious.

 

I actually haven't been to many concerts in my life (like maybe 30 at the very most?) so that tops it I think.

 

And Ruby Soho was a great song.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Death from Above. One of my lungs collapsed.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'm still deaf from my last Slayer show.

[DCMaximo 0]

Strangely, the answer is Bennet, a middle-of-the-road Britpop band, who for some reason had their sound turned up to a ridiculous level of volume. I've seen Chimaira and Pitchshifter in the same venue, and they were pretty loud, but fucking Bennet were deafening.

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

Like, so loud you felt your insides vibrating.

 

For me, it's a tie between rapper Dälek and the "neo-psychadelic" band Secret Machines.

Fuck... I love Dalek, that'd be awesome to see live, but I don't anticipate seeing that act in Portland, OR anytime soon. The loudest for me was probably Slipknot at this huge rock festival here like, 4 or 5 years ago. Slayer, Sevendust, Sepultera and a bunch of other bands were there too... but I found myself pushed up against some speakers when Slipknot went on... I honestly feared for my sense of hearing, and it didn't return to normal for a day or so. When I was on-stage filming The All-American Rejects it was pretty loud too, but I was right by the drum set for that.

[converge241 0]

"Fear Factory was brutal loud at their Calgary club show in 2001. The place shook to the gound when FF, Puya, and Dry Kill Logic got together and played Edge Crusher for the finale. I got my ass handed me in the pit and it was glorious"

 

FF at a club are insanely loud

 

saw them and electric hellfire club at babyhead in Providence, RI and that was probably my loudest ever, even louder than deicide at the same club

 

slayer wasnt that loud when ive seen them or motorhead there are very few bands who give me that clouded hearing feeling anymore and ive seen hundreds of "heavy" bands

 

the loudest cumulative effort from multiple bands i ever heard was probably

 

anal cunt/deftones/white zombie/pantera at the worcester centrum..Panter just had the mother wall of all all amps behind them for the trendkill tour

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

CWM owns the single to Ruby So-Ho

I Probably Do.

[nl5xsk1 0]

The question should really be where's the loudest place you've seen a show, because seeing a band like Slayer at an amphitheatre would be less ear-bending than seeing them at a club.

 

My loudest show was Sam Black Church/Slapshot/Bad Brains at the Channel in Boston. Each band got progressively louder (probably b/c they were all using Bad Brains amps) and SBC was plenty loud to begin with.

[King Kamala 0]

I haven't seen many really loud bands, but the venue that was the loudest for me was this small club called the Skinny. It couldn't fit any more then 500 people and I saw SR-71/The Exies there (I can't remember why I went to see SR-71) and I was stumbling around right after the concert. My ears were ringing. Man it was loud, they had way too many amps considering A. It was a small club and B. It was SR-71, a D-grade Blink 182 ripoff.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

The second loudest venue I've ever been in is probably whatever room I happen to be standing in with my amp cranked up all the way.

 

I'm currently saving for a 2 18" Subwoofer cabinet.

 

When one gets locked into building the rig of their dreams, the tendency is to take it as far as it will go. Yeah..1000 watts pushing those 2 cabs, with a crossover, and my preamp distortion...it'd make people's bowels become jellyfish.

 

EDIT: To put this in perspective...the bass player for Hatebreed (who opened for Slayer) was pushing through an 8 10" cab miked for the PA...I'll have 2 fewer speakers, although my six will be SO MUCH DAMN LOUDER.

 

I swear, it's like having a 13 inch prick.

[C Dubya 04 0]

I'd have to say that the loudest show I've ever seen was the Jesus Lizard. Not particularly great, but definitely cranked up.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Some notes:

 

- The loudest thing about the Secret Machines was the guitarist's effects pedals. At times, it felt as if the sounds his guitar made were burrowing itself into my skull, trying to make my head implode. Similarly, I saw this noise band from Japan, Melt Banana, about a year ago. They were pretty fucking loud, too (their guitarist had, by my count, ten different pedals), but I spent most of my time in the pit. That was one of two times I ever moshed.

 

- Elf Power is the only band to have done significant hearing damage to my person. They weren't particularly loud for most of their set, but, as they were closing with a cover of Brian Eno's "Needle in the Camel's Eye," they just kept cranking it up and up to where I felt something pop in my right ear. This was three plus years ago; my right ear has had slightly worse hearing than my left ever since.

 

- I'm seeing Mogwai this Friday. They have a reputation for being loud and feedback-heavy, so I'm definitely wearing earplugs for it. (I didn't for Secret Machines on Monday, so I've learned my lesson.)

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That was one of two times I ever moshed.

 

What was the other time? Sigur Ros?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Yeah. I don't think anyone appreciated my efforts to get a party started, though.