Sound quality for recording concerts

I love music and visit a lot of concerts. When I bought my E63 I noticed that while on my previous phone the sound got all distorted when I tried to record a loud live performance, it sounded pretty good on the E63, even if the concert got loud. Since that discovery I usually record one of two songs of a show I visit as a souvenir. It's become quite a big thing for me.
Now the E63 has a pretty mediocre camera, so I'm thinking about upgrading to a model with a better one. Of course it is essential that this new phone can record loud sound (110 dB and over) as good or even better than my current E63. I know that this is not a given from people with iPhones or phones from HTC: all they get is when they try to record loud sound is distortion.
Now my question is this: are newer Nokia models still as good at recording loud (rock and metal show) sound and is there some technical spec that I can check to make sure this is the case?

You might first want to look into the following for your current phone:
http://www.alonsoftware.com/s60/dictaphone.php
You can DL it as a trial to make sure it works. Set the Auto record gain to off and set the Record gain to low.

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