By now, you have all likely heard the sad news that Marcel Hubregtse, one of our longest-standing staff members and a fixture around Metal Storm for many years, has passed away. As is known to everyone who spent even a few minutes on Metal Storm, Marcel had a passion for pushing doom and introduced many of us to countless bands and albums of the highest quality; Marcel had a bottomless well of knowledge when it came to the music he loved, and he shared that with us all quite a lot.

Right now, the rest of the Metal Storm staff are working on a more formal tribute to Marcel behind the scenes, but we thought it would be an appropriate way for all MS users at large to memorialize Marcel if we could share in this thread some of the albums and bands that Marcel introduced us to. We can revisit these albums in his honor or maybe check out some new artists he recommended to others.

The biggest one for me is, as might be expected, Warning's Watching From A Distance. When I joined this site not even halfway into high school and I thought I knew a thing or two about doom, he put me in my place with that album. Over the years, it has become one of my favorites.

So go ahead. Talk about the music that Marcel loved to talk about and let's raise a craft beer in his honor.

Herder Goes Harder!

Probably would not have discovered three Dutch black metal bands that I'm a huge fan of were it not for Marcel: Urfaust, Laster, and Dodecahedron.

Marcel recommended the remaster of Doomsday For The Deceiver to me.

Warning is the obvious one. When joining the site and browsing the lists, seeing that painting of the guy walking/crawling uphill topping his list; it's probably an experience a lot of people had who joined or discovered Metal Storm in the 2010's. His list also introduced me to what became one of my favourite bands of all time; Alchemist.

More personal recommendations included advising me to go see Hangman's Chair and The Vintage Caravan at Roadburn, which I promptly ignored and later regretted. Luckily I got to see both bands afterwards and both were great concerts that I would never have gone to if not for Marcel. He also knew my home country's metal scene better than I did and pointed out my error when I foolishly included Serpentcult in my Best Of Belgian Metal list but not Thee Plague Of Gentlemen.

The last time I saw him was at Dutch Doom Days 2018. He was DJ'ing in between bands. After the last band ended I heard some really fucking jolly music playing and when I went back into the bar area I could see him and some guys drunkenly smiling and singing along. I didn't say hi that time, thinking I'd see him again loads of times anyway since I lived so close to the Netherlands and he goes to pretty much all the good shows there. I only met him a handful of times before that, but I wish I had known him better.

I wouldn't even know where to begin. My foray into the extreme side of metal is a direct result of his influence and constant badgering in the forums. I came here a fan of Slipknot, Metallica, Static-X, Disturbed, Limp Bizkit, etc. and over the years gave bands and genres the time and effort they deserved just from reading some of his comments on the site. I owe a great deal of my personal growth and musical preferences to him, even though so much of what we enjoyed didn't mesh.

We'll always have Erosion by Process Of Guilt.

Like Troy, I honestly don't really know where to begin. i started to try and compile a list of albums he sent me, or directly recommended me to comb through... it's probably 200+ of my collection. Just those I owned physically or paid for digitally.

an attempt...

Ahab
Akelei
Capilla Ardiente
FAAL
Forsaken
Officium Triste
Ortega
Process of Guilt
Procession
Profetus
Warning

And that is just the tip of the doom iceberg he actually physically sent to me, along with countless shirts and my beloved Ortega hoodie.

Thanks to him I discovered my favorite album ever, regardless of genre.

To The Nameless Dead

Great albums I discovered because of him were:
Process of Guilt - Erosion
Warning - Watching from a distance

But for me it was more all the little details he contributed about the bands' members, their motivation, about the evolution of it all, from which I gained so much insight.

Thanks, Marcel, now rest in peace.

Like many Msers, I only checked Warning or 40 Watt Sun because of his great doom proselytism, besides other bands.

Carry Me Home is certainly among the most soul crushing (and best) songs I know.

A lot of the bands that I like are because of him. The one that sticks out to me, that hasn't already been mentioned, is this one:

Just like Apothecary, I got to know Urfaust thanks to him.

This one is the most memorablethough. Simply because I started listening to it and just couldn't get into it. But it was because of how enthusiastic Marcel was talking about it, that I gave it another chance. Damn is it a good album when I'm in the mood for it. I'm so glad I gave it a second chance thanks to Marcel.

Maybe not real metal, but still a dutch band

This is gonna be a long post so brace yourselves...

I compiled his top lists since 2010 until 2018.

2010:

1. Procession - Destroyers Of The Faith
2. Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards
3. Place Of Skulls - As A Dog Returns
4. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane
5. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
6. Burial Invocation - Rituals Of The Grotesque
7. Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
8. Graveyard Dirt - For Grace Or Damnation
9. Ophis - Withered Shades
10. Fungoid Stream - Oceanus

Honourable mention for the following runners-up:
Terzij De Horde, Enslaved, Watain, Hail Of Bullets, Negura Bunget, Atlantean Kodex, Hour Of 13, Coffinworm, Las Cruces, Tenhornedbeast, Void Of Silence, Year Of No Light, Nomad Son, Eibon, Highgate, Crowned In Eart, Helevorn, Krief De Soli, The Null Collective


2011:

1. Disma - Towards the Megalith
2. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
3. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
4. Orchid - Capricorn
5. Mournful Congregation - The Book Of Kings
6. Vanhelgd - Church Of Death
7. Black Oath - The Third Aeon
8. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
9. Before The Rain - Frail
10. Cianide - Gods Of Death
11. Black Country Communion - 2
12.Faces Of Bayon - Heart Of The Fire
13. Necros Christos - Doom Of The Occult
14. Saturnalia Temple - Aion Of Drakon
15. Hell - Human Remains
16. Argus - Boldly Stride The Doomed
17. In Solitude - The World, The Flesh, The Devil
18. Loss - Despond
19. Krux - III - He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars
20. Miasmal - Miasmal

2012:

1. Faustcoven - Hellfire And Funeral Bells
2. Alkerdeel - Morinde
3. Undersmile Narwhal
4. Bell-Witch - Longing
5. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
6. Ortega - A Flame Never Rises On Its Own
7. Binah - Hallucinating In Resurrecture
8. Anhedonist - Netherwards
9. Maveth - Coils Of The Black Earth
10. Profetus - To Open The Passages In Dusk


2013:

1. Tribulation - Formulas Of Death
2. In Solitude - Sister
3. Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart
4. Dead Lord - Goodbye Repentance
5. Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
6. Lantern - Below
7. Antediluvian - Logos
8. Bölzer - Aura
9. Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times
10. Obliteration - Black Death Horizon
11. Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
12. Satan - Life Sentence
13. Officium Triste - Mors Viri
14. Argus - Beyond The Martyrs
15. Funeralium - Deceived Idealism
16. Temple Nightside - Condemnation
17. Krypts - Unending Degradation
18. Ataraxie - L'Être Et La Nausée
19. Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana
20. Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddes

2014:

1. Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
2. Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
3. Execration - Morbid Dimensions
4. Morbus Chron - Sweven
5. Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
6. Swallowed - Lunarterial
7. Profetus - �As All Seasons Die
8. Horrendous - Ecdysis
9. Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation
10. Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
11. Corpsessed - Abysmal Thresholds
12. Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs
13. Teitenblood - Death
14. Phobocosm - Deprived
15. Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
16. Clouds - Doliu
17. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
18. Vallenfyre - Splinters
19. Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
20. Ophis - Ophis - Abhorrence In Opulence

2015:

1. Chaos Echoes - Transient
2. Tribulation - Children Of The Night
3. Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
4. Tyranny - Aeons Ion Tectonic Internment
5. Chapel Of Disease - The Mysterious Ways Of Repetitive Art
6. Horrendous - Anareta
7. Skepticism - Ordeal
8. Desolate Shrine - The Heart Of The Netherworld
9. Terzij De Horde - Self
10. Abysmal Darkening - Sub Terra
11. Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
12. Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
13. Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
14. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
15. Europe - War Of Kings
16. Crypt Sermon - Out of The Garden
17. Hooded Menace - Darkness Drips Forth
18. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
19. Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex Of Dementiia)
20. Melechesh - Enki
21. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
22. Royal Thunder - Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
23. Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross
24. The Slow Death - Ark
25. Undergang - Døden Læger Alle Sår
26. Valkyrie - Shadows
27. Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
28. Year Of The Goat - The Unspeakable
29. Black Trip - Shadowline
30. Dead Lord - Heads Held High

2016:

1. 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
2. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
3. Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos
4. Ortega - Sacred States
5. Void Meditation Cult - Utter The Tongue Of The Dead
6. Ggu:ll - Dwaling
7. Howls Of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows
8. Krypts - Remnants Of Expansion
9. Lycus - Chasms
10. Entrapment - Through Realms Unseen
11. Spirit Adrift - Chained To Oblivion
12. Zeal And Ardor - Devil Is Fine
13. Soulburn - Earthless Pagan Spirit
14. Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation
15. Verwoed - Bodemloos

Runners up: Treurwilg, Herder, High Spirits, Clouds, Camel Of Doom

2017:

1. Venenum - Trance Of Death
2. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
3. Emptiness - Not For Music
4. Loss - Horizonless
5. Pallbearer - Heartless
6. Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King
7. Façade - Loathe
8. Altar Of Betelgeuze - Among The Ruins
9. Procession - Doom Decimation
10. Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
11. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
12. Funeralium - Of Throes And Blight
13. Spirit Adrift - Curse Of Conception
14. Deinonychus - Ode To Acts Of Murder, Dystopia And Suicide
15. Desolate Shrine - Deliverance From The Godless Void
Runners up (honourable mentions): Argus, Black Cilice, Clandestine Blaze, Dead Lord, Degial, Dodecahedron, Drug Honkey, Execration, Fen, Forsaken, Fuoco Fatuo, Gorephilia, Heretoir, Illimitable Dolor, Incinerator, Infernal Majesty, Jupiterian, Lantern, Mahakala, Mourning Dawn, Night Demon, Ophis, Pagan Altar, Paradise Lost, Phrenelith, Possession, Process Of Guilt, Primitive Man, River Of Souls, Rude, Schammasch, Shaarimoth, Tchornobog, Thantifaxath, Turia, Unaussprechilchen Kulten, Undergang, Ulsect, Usnea, Vallenfyre, Wolves In The Throne Room, Wound

2018, in alphabetical order, I know from him that Chapel Of Disease was his favorite:

1. Ataraxy - Where All Hope Fades
2. Atavisma - The Chthonic Rituals
3. Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
4. Chaos Echoes - Mouvement
5. Chapel Of Disease - �And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye
6. Convocation - Scars Across
7. Corpsessed - Impetus Of Death
8. Faal - Desolate Grief
9. Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
10. Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
11. Horrendous - Idol
12. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus Of Karma
13. Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure
14. Pale Divine - Pale Divine
15. Primordial - Exile Among The Ruins
16. Satan - Cruel Magic
17. Solstice - White Horse Hill
18. Tribulation - Down Below
19. Vanhelgd - Deimos Sanktuarium
20. Varathron - Patriarchs Of Evil

Written by Maco on 21.12.2019 at 20:33

This is gonna be a long post so brace yourselves...

I compiled his top lists since 2010 until 2018.

We were so close to having a 2019 one too

Written by RaduP on 21.12.2019 at 20:53

We were so close to having a 2019 one too

I think his favorite this year for now was Facade and then Esoteric

Mat der grises, i like that band Because him and southern wind, same poema arcanus. 2 what came in my mind

Written by Maco on 21.12.2019 at 21:01

I think his favorite this year for now was Facade and then Esoteric

Yeah, I think you're right on that. He seemed to really like those 2.

Written by Maco on 21.12.2019 at 20:36

Written by Zap on 21.12.2019 at 13:16

I don't want to hijack this thread

We should move to the Marcel's recommendation thread, I posted something it might be of interest

I didn't even know he ever posted one for 2012 since I didn't have it. Thanks for that!

Written by Maco on 21.12.2019 at 20:33


2. Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

Honourable mention for the following runners-up:
Terzij De Horde, Atlantean Kodex, Hour Of 13,


2011:


2. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room


2012:
4. Bell-Witch - Longing
5. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning


2013:

1. Tribulation - Formulas Of Death (Its Rod who introduced me that one
8. Bölzer - Aura (same Rod)




3. Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
9. Terzij De Horde - Self
10. Abysmal Darkening - Sub Terra
14. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms

2016:

1. 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky



2017:

02. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

Cool list, when I get some kick in 2008-2010 from marcel, richard, souther wind and few other users, I discover music my selve, digging deeper, but i left bands what I actually love thans to Marcel, its hard to remember all since I am here more thern 10 years

Another think how Marcel affected my ms live and metal live positivly was DDD. Damn I love his articles how sm crew was there, and intro part about travel, beers and sleep in his aparment whit rat poop lol
Since he start talk about that fest every year many bands and some new bands I did not know before, and I start add all bands in MS; because I love work whit ms database. Thanks to Marcel I had some things to do in boringf times in ms. Spend ours whit good music and eding bands, doing what I like
DDD is fest what I wanted attend and never did because of travel expences, its expencive and also Ned is not cheep, and now if I will attend, it wont be a same anymore

Written by Maco on 21.12.2019 at 21:01

Written by RaduP on 21.12.2019 at 20:53

We were so close to having a 2019 one too

I think his favorite this year for now was Facade and then Esoteric

OT was on that as well, just a really late release so he didn't say much publicly. He may or may not have nudged me an advance copy... (he did so knowing I'm a "if I like it, i'll buy it" guy, and promptly pre-ordered it from Bandcamp)

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 28.10.2019 at 18:48

Btw, I agree with you that Officium Triste are currently at their best. They have never been better live and on album. This "new" line-up works really well with William and Theo in the fold now. They exude so much joy, fun and pleasure live.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.10.2019 at 01:22

Great opener off their best album to date.

Above that, The Death Of Gaia was the very last album Marcel has added to his collection here on Metal Storm. It will forever remain something special.

Written by Starvynth on 25.12.2019 at 02:23

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 28.10.2019 at 18:48

Btw, I
Above that, The Death Of Gaia was the very last album Marcel has added to his collection here on Metal Storm. It will forever remain something special.

He had many more albums, one in old days he add all, later asked Ivan remove all in same time, because he wanted all what he has at his aparment counts, older as acdc what is at psrents place, be out of list, so it much larger