Scrutinous Criteriata A few words on the somewhat arbitrary rules that guide what we cover

Death metal has gotten so big and so vast that it would take a small army to keep up with all the new releases, so Sickening Vaults is built to only cover releases that meet one of the following criteria:

1. The album is by a death metal band and was released before 2000
   1. Ah, the classic shit – ENTOMBED, Left Hand Path (1990)
2. The album is by a death metal band who was active prior to 2000
   1. Newer shit from classic bands — ENTOMBED, Morningstar (2002)
3. The album is by a death metal band and features at least one person who was in a band who was active prior to 2000
   1. New shit from new bands featuring old fucks — ENTOMBED A.D.

It’s a bit arbitrary, but it lets us focus on the good old days while still giving props to new stuff by the old guard without getting bogged down in a gazillion new bands putting out their first album on Bandcamp each week (guilty).

It does mean that we don’t feature newer bands that have the OSDM sound (and there’s a lot of good ones), but them’s the breaks. Suck it up, buttercup.