Diamond Eyes Wikipedia. Diamond Eyes. Studio album by Deftones. Released. May 4, 2. Recorded. Late 2. The Pass, Los Angeles, Amerycan Studios, North Hollywood. Genre. Length. 41 1. Label. Reprise. Producer. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Nick Raskulinecz. Deftones chronology. Singles from Diamond Eyes. Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2. Reprise Records, after their departure from longtime label Maverick. It is their first album to feature bassist Sergio Vega, who replaced original bassist Chi Cheng. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be their sixth full length release and follow up to Saturday Night Wrist 2. Lowrey Organ Serial Numbers. The Obligatory Bondage Song trope as used in popular culture. A musiclyrics trope. Subtrope of Fanservice and related to Fetish Fuel. Eventually, an. Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2. The band continued on with Vega as his replacement and the release of Eros was put on hold in favor of Diamond Eyes in June 2. Diamond Eyes was a critical and commercial success obtaining a normalized score of 7. Metacritic, while achieving top 2. Billboard 2. 00, German Albums Chart and many other European charts. It was the bands highest charting album on the Billboard 2. Deftones. Diamond Eyes debuted at No. Saturday Night Wrist debuted at No. BackgroundeditDeftones started writing material for the successor to 2. Saturday Night Wrist in early 2. The band was dissatisfied with the lengthy writing and recording process of Saturday Night Wrist, and wanted to release a quick follow up record in the same manner as earlier albums such as 1. Adrenaline and 1. Around the Fur, which were recorded without the digital audio program Pro Tools. Instead, those albums were recorded as just a band in the room with just our instruments, no other distractions, according to frontman Chino Moreno. The band recorded and completed their Terry Date produced album, tentatively titled Eros, in 2. However, bassist Chi Cheng was seriously injured in an automobile accident in November 2. Eros on hold. Unsure if or when Cheng would recover and be able to perform with the band again, Deftones started playing various shows and festivals with Sergio Vega on bass, starting in early 2. Vega, a close friend of the band, had previously filled in for Cheng during tours in 1. At this point, Deftones were not sure if they wanted to break up or continue writing and performing music. In June 2. Deftones decided to indefinitely put the release of Eros on hold and start writing a brand new album with Vega. The band still hopes to release Eros at some point, but wanted to wait until Cheng was no longer in a semi conscious state, and they did not feel that it represented who they were as artists or as people at the time. Deftones wanted to make an optimistic record, as opposed to the dark and angry album they had just finished. Diamond Eyes was recorded in two months with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who had previously worked with Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Stone Sour and Alice In Chains. Deftones avoided using Pro Tools on the album. Instead, they favored writing songs together as a band and practicing them a million times til they were perfect in order to achieve a more raw and personable sound. ReleaseeditDiamond Eyes was originally scheduled to be released on April 2. Reprise,9 but was pushed back three weeks to May 1. May 4, 2. 01. 0. 1. The latter release date change was possibly due to the album leaking onto the Internet in March 2. The first single from the album, Rocket Skates, was available for free download through the bands official website on February 2. The song had been included in Deftones live performances starting in October 2. Record Store Day on April 1. A music video directed by 1. Witness Tim Mc. Gurr was released on March 9. Casa De Sanatate Bihor Program. The first radio single was the title track, Diamond Eyes, which was also released as a digital download on March 2. The music video for the song, directed by Roboshobo Robert Schober, was released on April 1. Deftones performed a live webcast of songs from Diamond Eyes and answered fan questions on May 4 in Dallas, Texas. A music video for the track Sextape was released on September 3, 2. The video was directed by ZFCL Zak Forrest and Chad Liebenguth, known for their work with Foxy Shazam and Fang Island. On October 2. 8, 2. Deftones released the official video for Youve Seen the Butcher, directed by Jodeb Films. In August 2. 01. 1, Deftones released the official music video for Beauty School, directed by 1. Witness. 2. 0Lyrics and themeseditAfter dealing with the tragedy surrounding Chengs accident, Deftones wanted to create an album with an overall positive and optimistic vibe. Describing the bands state while writing for the album, Moreno stated, Our inspiration and unity as a band is stronger than it has ever been before and we needed to channel that energy into our music. Noticeably lacking on the album were songs about complaining, hurting or how life sucks  common lyrical themes for Moreno since the early 9. Moreno described the overall theme of the album as a positive zest for life, and also said it had a fantasy vibe similar to White Pony. The lyrics for Rocket Skates contained beautiful yet violent imagery and were compared to the song Knife Prty from White Pony. Deftones also thought it would be difficult to tour in support of a new album with memories of Cheng attached to it. Commenting on songwriting, Moreno stated I dont like listening to peoples problems I like music. Music has been smothered with that complaining since the early 9. It gets old. Instead of going to the opposite side of the spectrum and listening to The Black Eyed Peas, which is just straight silly, I choose to listen to more instrumental music. I do very little singing about myself on this record. I love songs where I can totally take myself out of being human. I can sing about really odd things, and they dont necessarily have to pertain to me at all. It paints a picture. Those are the kind of lyrics I grew up with like The Cure. Really visual images and no storytelling. ReceptioneditCritical receptioneditInitial reaction to the album from music critics was highly favorable. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All. Music gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, writing, Naturally, there is quite a bit of roiling darkness here theyre Cure loving metalheads, its in their blood but theres shade and light, control of texture, with the band deepening rather than expanding. Jason Pettigrew of Alternative Press also awarded the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, Unlike their alleged peers do they really have any, Deftones learned years ago that a whisper can be more terrifying than a scream and power isnt always about BPMs and downstrokes per minute. He also added that Diamond Eyes belongs in a pantheon of amazing albums born from tragedy. BBC writer Mike Diver was also impressed, and opined that the album knocks every pretender to the bands throne into the middle of next week. He praised the band for playing to their strengths, and summarized 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. Writing for Metalholic, Doron Beit Halahmi said the album was slated to be a classic in the world of alternative metal, this album is just as good, if not better than 2.