If so, Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity' always makes me turn up the speakers to 111.

Multiple times world's loudest band - they once even broke the record after Guiness spotted recording it because they thought it was encouraging unhealthy behaviour.

I'd probably say Gravetemple

Melt-Banana
Asva
Kikuri
Black Sun
Gravetemple
Prestidigitators
Romance

hurt my ears when I saw them, it was annoying.

I would love to see My Bloody Valentine they are my hero's... kinda.

I have it on good aurthoritie that a good dubstep night will blow your mind with the bass. I mean sure those rock bands will fuck you up with some hardcore guitar frequencys. But you aint felt nothing yet untill you get base all the way thru you at a massive volume. Like real sub base.

Jarssic 5 did a thing at leeds fest with just pure sub base on the main stag and I sware I neary fell over an people where lookin ill it was awsome. Cut Chemist you legend.

Thank god for my earplugs.

yus

the 'world's loudest band' record- apparently people vomited at their gigs- Merzow tries to achieve the same effect too.

Ear-splittingly loud, and suffocatingly atmospheric. Also EW's 'Dopethrone'; the bass tone is absolutely terrifying!

Cochlea damage in both ears, permanent ringing, no hearing loss thankfully. My clothing was fluttering.

are really loud live.

That is all.

my experiences now of seeing MBV (who were probably the loudest live band I've seen), Sunn, etc etc, with bands I saw when I was young but I do remember a fairly lame indie/punk band, Compulsion being crushingly loud. A friend of mine went to hospital after because his ear bled and had screaming tinnitus for months. He was told never to see a live band ever again.

TURN IT DOWN!

I mean generally, I'm sure there's still plenty of gigs that turn it up to 11. I'm talking about early-mid 90s here. I don't think that's a bad thing by the way.

loud...very loud live

she had ringing in her ears for a few days after seeing AIDS wolf.
i don't like it when it's too loud because YOU CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING APART FROM KKRKRKFNHSJSKIGHHJISSSSHH.

Music isn't meant to hurt.

AFX at Herbal once. That was pretty disgustingly loud. Unfortunately it was a "repulsion" set too.

and there was an amp problem thingy which kept screeching... I swear to god it was like having a hot poker going thru my ears. We had to leave.

at the Roundhouse and it wasn't that loud.

Loudest band I have seen was Motorhead, I had to lie on the floor to avoid the noise

ARE NME MAJOR LABEL PUNXXXXXXXX WOWWW. REALLY BACKS UP HOW ANTI ESTABLISHMENT THEY ACT.

MANOWAR IS THE LOUDEST BAND EVER. FACT.

OTHER BANDS PLAY, MANOWAR KILLS.

they hurt my ears and made me feel physically sick afterwards.

Of today's bands TODD & Part Chimp are probably the loudest I've seen / heard.

but I don't know how much of it is mythologizing. There are stories of them being too loud to be recorded in a studio, so they had to do the sessions at the end of a pier. Apparently ships 12 miles away could hear them.
They caused so much vibration when they played they had to nail the drumkit to the floor, and once they had to stop playing because the walls of the venue were cracking due to the vibration. Insane.

Part Chimp (anytime!!!)

Mogwai (in 2002)

Melvins (with Cameron Jamie)

Jesus Lizard (please reform)

Botch (camden!!!)

Earth (eart2 live)

Mogwai
Isis
Sunn O)))
No Age were surprisingly earsplitting as well.

the big stage turned every band on it into massively loud pain merchants. I think Asva were the loudest.

My Bloody Valentine were actually as loud as everyone on the internet said they were!

and surprisingly, animal collective. Last time i saw them i felt very sorry for anyone without earplugs, the bass was MEGA.