Diamond Eyes is the sixth studio album by the alternative metal band Deftones, released on May 4, 2010, by Reprise Records. It was the first album to feature bassist Sergio Vega, who replaced original bassist Chi Cheng. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be the band’s sixth full-length release following Saturday Night Wrist (2006), but was not finished due to Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2008, eventually resulting in his death in 2013. 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 2009.
Diamond Eyes was a critical and commercial success, peaking within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 and several other international charts; it was the band’s highest charting album on the Billboard 200 since their 2003 eponymous fourth album. Four singles were released from Diamond Eyes: the title track, “Rocket Skates”, “Sextape”, and “You’ve Seen the Butcher”.
Tracklist:
- Diamond Eyes
- Royal
- CMND/CTRL
- You’ve Seen the Butcher
- Beauty School
- Prince
- Rocket Skates
- Sextape
- Risk
- 976-EVIL
- This Place Is Death
Deftones
Stephen Carpenter: guitars
Abe Cunningham: drums
Frank Delgado: keyboards, samples, turntables
Chino Moreno: vocals, guitars
Sergio Vega: bass
Art and design
Frank Maddocks: creative direction and design
John Ross: owl photos
13th Witness (Tim McGurr): band photo
Production and recording
Keith Armstrong: assisted mixing
David Benveniste: A&R
Paul Figueroa: recording, engineering
Ted Jensen: mastering
Nik Karpen: assisted mixing
Chris Lord-Alge: mixing
Nick Raskulinecz: producer, mixing
Andrew Schubert: additional engineering
Brad Townsend: additional engineering
Tom Whalley: executive producer
Kevin Willianson: A&R for Warner Bros. Records
