I hate loud stages. Leaves my ears ringing, which i don't need. In the band I'm with, we keep stage volume at a minimum and have a massive front house system. I use a 30 watt guitar amp most of the time, a 100 watt is the biggest I've used. Our drummer is behind a plexiglass shield. Our bass player usually just goes through some nice preamps, eqs, compressors, and out to the PA.

All of you are just going to deafen yourselves cranking out that loud from the stage. Seriously!
If you need loud, invest in your front house PA. We have up to 20,000 watts if we need it. That's massive!