Some wise pastors have placed a glass partition around the drums. This is a great idea - just let the drummer beat his little heart out inside his cubicle. Enough sound will escape to give a proper cadence to the music being sung and the drummer can pound his heart out in his own little percussion cubicle. The fact is that loud drums can impair the hearing. Sound above what God made the ears to be used for can be as harmful as anything else abused beyond purpose.
Worship is the purpose of music in the church.
Everything, including the songs we sing in church are directed to God. More and more our music is to please us rather than God. From the time of the tabernacle we learn that the house of God is where we come to worship the Lord under His conditions and not for having a religious jam session. Musical entertainment has no place in the house of God. At one time this was the feeling of Christians toward music in the church.