Deftones My Own' title='Deftones My Own' />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. Nick Raskulinecz. Deftones chronology. Singles from Diamond Eyes. Deftones My Own' title='Deftones My Own' />This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Adherence Counselling Manual: Software Free Download here. Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, U. S. Formed in 1988, the band was founded by Chino Moreno lead vocals, rhythm guitar. 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. 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. Ebook Reader Objective English. 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 My Own' title='Deftones My Own' />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. 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. Deftones Wikipedia. Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, U. S. Formed in 1. 98. Chino Moreno lead vocals, rhythm guitar, Stephen Carpenter lead guitar, Abe Cunningham drums and Dominic Garcia bass. During the groups first five years, the bands lineup changed several times, but stabilized in 1. Cunningham rejoined the group after his departure in 1. Chi Cheng was the bands bassist. The lineup remained stable for fifteen years, with the exception of keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado being added in 1. The band is known as one of the most experimental groups to have come from the alternative metal music scene. They are sometimes dubbed the Radiohead of metal by critics. Deftones have released eight albums since their inception. After the lineup settled in 1. Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1. Promoting the album by touring exhaustively with other bands in the scene, Deftones managed to gain a dedicated fan base through word of mouth. Their sophomore album, Around the Fur, was released in 1. The album and its singles reached chart positions, and the album was the bands first to receive certification from the RIAA. The band found even further success with their third album, White Pony, in 2. It showed a transition away from the bands earlier sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single, Change In the House of Flies, is the groups most commercially successful single, and the album track Elite won a Grammy Awardfor Best Metal Performance. White Pony was the bands first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self titled fourth album was released in 2. While the groups critical success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. The follow up, Saturday Night Wrist, was released in 2. Its completion was also delayed by personal issues within the band, some of which influenced its material. In 2. 00. 8, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, Cheng was involved in a traffic collision. As a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2. During that time, Deftones halted production on Eros. Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega, who had filled in as a touring member to replace Cheng, later became his permanent replacement. The band released Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan in 2. Their latest release, titled Gore, was released in 2. HistoryeditEarly years 1. When Stephen Carpenter was 1. Confined to a wheelchair for several months, he began teaching himself guitar by playing along to bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. The driver supposedly paid Carpenter a cash settlement that allowed the band to purchase equipment,123 but Abe Cunningham commented in a 2. Carpenter, Moreno and Cunningham began playing together whilst attending Mc. Clatchy High School in Sacramento. Carpenter, Cunningham and Chino Moreno were friends from their childhood. All three went to Mc. Clatchy High School in Sacramento and remained friends through the citys skateboarding scene. While Carpenter was a fan of heavy metal, Moreno was also interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains and post punk and new wave bands such as Depeche Mode. When Moreno found out that Carpenter played guitar, he set up a jam session with Cunningham, who played drums, and the three began playing regularly in Carpenters garage around 1. They recruited bassist Dominic Garcia some time after, and the band became a four piece. When Cunningham left Deftones to join Phallucy, another band from Sacramento, Garcia switched to drums. The band acquired Cheng to play bass, and recorded a four track demo soon afterwards. John Taylor replaced Cunningham on drums in 1. Cunninghams return in 1. Within two years, the band began playing club shows and later expanded their gigging territory to San Francisco and Los Angeles, where they played shows alongside bands such as Korn. While closing for another band in L. A., after the majority of the audience had left, the band impressed a Maverick Records representative. They were signed to the label after performing three of their songs for Freddy De. Mann and Guy Oseary. The name Deftones was created by Carpenter, who wanted to pick something that would just stand out but you know, not be all cheese ball at the same time. Carpenter combined the hip hop slang term def, which was used by artists such as LL Cool J and Public Enemy, with the suffix tones, which was popular among 1. Dick Dale and the Del Tones, The Quin Tones, The Delltones, The Monotones, The Cleftones and The Harptones. Carpenter said the name is intentionally vague to reflect the bands tendency to not focus on just one style of music. The name is also a pun on the term tone deaf. Adrenaline 1. The bands debut album, Adrenaline, was recorded at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington and released on October 3, 1. It was produced by Deftones and Terry Date, who would go on to produce the bands next three albums. While they were initially unsuccessful, the band built a dedicated fan base through extensive touring, word of mouth and Internet promotion. Through their efforts, Adrenaline went on to sell over 2. It is regarded as an important part of the 1. An early track which predated Adrenaline but did not make the albums final cut was Teething the band contributed the song to the soundtrack for the 1. The Crow City of Angels. The band can also be seen performing the song live during one of the films scenes. The album spent 2. Billboard Heatseekers chart, reaching a peak position of 2. When asked what he attributed the albums success to, Cheng responded, One word perseverance. Weve been together for almost eight years, on the road for two, and we do it with honesty and integrityand the kids can tell. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on July 7, 1. September 2. 3, 2. Regarding the recording of the album, Cunningham said, At the time we did the first recordwhich I really like and think is goodyou can tell the band was really young. Wed been playing most of those songs for quite a while, and we were just so happy to be making a record that we didnt really think a whole lot about making the songs better. Moreno felt that Adrenaline was recorded really fast1. Shure SM5. 8 microphone. All. Musics review of Adrenaline praised the albums musical control, precision, overall groove and Cunninghams surprisingly sophisticated drumming. It was also noted that there is a bit of sameness in Chino Morenos whispered vocal melodies, which drags the record down a bit. Around the Fur 1. Deftones second album, Around the Fur, was recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington and produced by Date. Released on October 2. Dana Wells, the late stepson of the singer Max Cavalera of Sepultura, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. Cavalera also collaborated on Headup, a tribute to Wells. Although not yet a member of the band, Delgado was credited as audio on five of the albums tracks. Cunninghams wife, Annalynn, provided guest vocals on MX. When we went in to make this record, we really didnt have a set idea of what we wanted to come out with, said Moreno in a 1. Chart magazine. However, he felt that the album fell into place once the band had settled into the studio.