(0 users) 
Cover NOT yet available in
Join Patreon for 4K upload/download access
Your Rating (Click a star below)
Track List
01) Diamond Eyes
02) Royal
03) CMND/CTRL
04) You've Seen the Butcher
05) Beauty School
06) Prince
07) Rocket Skates
08) Sextape
09) Risk
10) 976-EVIL
11) This Place Is Death
01) Diamond Eyes
02) Royal
03) CMND/CTRL
04) You've Seen the Butcher
05) Beauty School
06) Prince
07) Rocket Skates
08) Sextape
09) Risk
10) 976-EVIL
11) This Place Is Death
3:08
3:32
2:25
3:31
4:47
3:36
4:17
4:01
3:38
4:32
3:48
Data Complete
80%
Total Rating
80%Total Rating
(3 users)
Back Cover
CD Art
3D Case
3D Thumb
3D Flat
3D Face
3D Spine
First Released
2010
Nu Metal
Hypnotic
Metal
---
Medium
Album
0 copies
Album Description
Available in:
Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2010 through Reprise Records. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be their sixth full-length release and follow up to Saturday Night Wrist (2006), but was not released due to bassist Chi Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2008. The release of Eros was put on hold in favor of Diamond Eyes in June 2009. Former Quicksand bass player, Sergio Vega is featured on the album in substitution for Cheng.
Diamond Eyes was a critical and commercial success; obtaining a normalized score of 78 on review aggregator Metacritic, while achieving top 20 chartings on the Billboard 200, German Albums Chart and many other European charts. It was the band's highest charting album on the Billboard 200 since their album, Deftones. Diamond Eyes debuted at Number 6, while the previous Saturday Night Wrist debuted at Number 10.
User Album Review
If there’s a criticism to be levelled at Deftones, it’s that the Californian quintet’s albums since 2000’s White Pony have largely foregone consistency for exploration that rarely leant itself to a cohesive experience. Though they successfully shook off any nu-metal shackles with said third album – an exercise in immersive, textural metal that blindsided the band’s rap-rock-loving (then) fanbase – their following records neither surpassed White Pony’s creative highs, nor emerged sequenced in such a fashion that the skip button wasn’t at least hovered over. But with Diamond Eyes they’ve cracked that latter conundrum.
These 11 tracks flow fantastically, sounding like products of a focused period of writing and recording, completed over a relatively short space of time – which they were, after what should have been the group’s sixth album, Eros, was indefinitely delayed when bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident in late 2008. He remains in a minimally conscious state, but his bandmates have pressed onwards – not without reluctance, certainly, but ultimately wisely. Diamond Eyes ensures it’s not only livelihoods that are safeguarded for the foreseeable, but that the band’s reputation remains vertiginous.
There is no overflow from Eros here – everything on Diamond Eyes is built upwards from freshly laid foundations, with ex-Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega filling Cheng’s role. The dynamic is not significantly changed: vocalist Chino Moreno still leads from the front with contributions both caustic and celestial, Abe Cunningham mans his kit with the assured expressiveness of a musician whose abilities stretch further than most metal-scene sticksmen, and guitarist Stephen Carpenter grinds out riffs that display strength while never suffocating the mix. Filling the gaps is Frank Delgado, whose layers of samples and keys again lend the overall sound a satisfying richness – though the ambience here is more organic than in the past.
Compositionally, though, this is the group on safe ground – taking cues from their post-White Pony catalogue without adventuring into unknown sonic pastures. But don’t be disheartened, as this relative restraint rewards the listener with a collection that’s better for its conservatism. Rocket Skates and CMND/CTRL represent the record’s heaviest tracks, but neither challenges the likes of Elite or When Girls Telephone Boys, from White Pony and Deftones respectively. Likewise, 976-EVIL and Beauty School, as well as the title-track, feel more like reminders of the mid-pace precision of both 2003’s self-titled album and 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist than attempts at actively expanding their makers’ oeuvre.
But progress isn’t the intention of Diamond Eyes. Eros is reportedly their excursion into weirdness, while this is a statement of consolidation, a neatly segued set that finds Deftones playing to their well-established strengths. It won’t blow experienced minds, yet still knocks every pretender to the band’s throne into the middle of next week.
External Album Reviews
None...
User Comments
Available in:
Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2010 through Reprise Records. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be their sixth full-length release and follow up to Saturday Night Wrist (2006), but was not released due to bassist Chi Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2008. The release of Eros was put on hold in favor of Diamond Eyes in June 2009. Former Quicksand bass player, Sergio Vega is featured on the album in substitution for Cheng.
Diamond Eyes was a critical and commercial success; obtaining a normalized score of 78 on review aggregator Metacritic, while achieving top 20 chartings on the Billboard 200, German Albums Chart and many other European charts. It was the band's highest charting album on the Billboard 200 since their album, Deftones. Diamond Eyes debuted at Number 6, while the previous Saturday Night Wrist debuted at Number 10.
User Album Review
If there’s a criticism to be levelled at Deftones, it’s that the Californian quintet’s albums since 2000’s White Pony have largely foregone consistency for exploration that rarely leant itself to a cohesive experience. Though they successfully shook off any nu-metal shackles with said third album – an exercise in immersive, textural metal that blindsided the band’s rap-rock-loving (then) fanbase – their following records neither surpassed White Pony’s creative highs, nor emerged sequenced in such a fashion that the skip button wasn’t at least hovered over. But with Diamond Eyes they’ve cracked that latter conundrum.
These 11 tracks flow fantastically, sounding like products of a focused period of writing and recording, completed over a relatively short space of time – which they were, after what should have been the group’s sixth album, Eros, was indefinitely delayed when bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident in late 2008. He remains in a minimally conscious state, but his bandmates have pressed onwards – not without reluctance, certainly, but ultimately wisely. Diamond Eyes ensures it’s not only livelihoods that are safeguarded for the foreseeable, but that the band’s reputation remains vertiginous.
There is no overflow from Eros here – everything on Diamond Eyes is built upwards from freshly laid foundations, with ex-Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega filling Cheng’s role. The dynamic is not significantly changed: vocalist Chino Moreno still leads from the front with contributions both caustic and celestial, Abe Cunningham mans his kit with the assured expressiveness of a musician whose abilities stretch further than most metal-scene sticksmen, and guitarist Stephen Carpenter grinds out riffs that display strength while never suffocating the mix. Filling the gaps is Frank Delgado, whose layers of samples and keys again lend the overall sound a satisfying richness – though the ambience here is more organic than in the past.
Compositionally, though, this is the group on safe ground – taking cues from their post-White Pony catalogue without adventuring into unknown sonic pastures. But don’t be disheartened, as this relative restraint rewards the listener with a collection that’s better for its conservatism. Rocket Skates and CMND/CTRL represent the record’s heaviest tracks, but neither challenges the likes of Elite or When Girls Telephone Boys, from White Pony and Deftones respectively. Likewise, 976-EVIL and Beauty School, as well as the title-track, feel more like reminders of the mid-pace precision of both 2003’s self-titled album and 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist than attempts at actively expanding their makers’ oeuvre.
But progress isn’t the intention of Diamond Eyes. Eros is reportedly their excursion into weirdness, while this is a statement of consolidation, a neatly segued set that finds Deftones playing to their well-established strengths. It won’t blow experienced minds, yet still knocks every pretender to the band’s throne into the middle of next week.
External Album Reviews
None...
User Comments
No comments yet...
Status
unlockedRank: External Links
