Yeah, so there will be a few losers on this board who would prefer to give pseudo-intellectual tirades about music instead of actually trying to understand its value and this thread is not for them…
I think the new Deftones album “Diamond Eyes” is truly awesome. A near-masterpiece album easily comparable to other masterpieces in rock history. Beautiful, heavy, extreme, fragile, and more. Opinions?
this was my biggest fear. I kinda wanted this new cd to suck cause, well… the whole chi situation sucks (their bassist got in a car accident mid recording last cd, putting him in a coma. although he had finished his parts, time passes and they had to replace him and decided to start over and record a new cd). I mean he has slowly been coming out of that coma and is fully awake from what i recall… so i mean they’re making this amazing music w/the new guy, and there’s gonna hopefully be a day chi is able to rejoin… but are they going to still want him?
also have you seen recent pics of chino? he’s actually looking thin again
sort of been waiting for something to top white pony.
don’t get me wrong, they’ve been writing some good songs since then, but i honestly think chino’s been the achilles heel and nothing’s quite lived up to the atmosphere they conjured up with white pony.
Not sure if this tops White Pony since that album is really quite excellent… It is definitely close or maybe as good as White Pony though.
As for live streams, just do a google video search for “deftones diamond eyes” or “deftones x” where x is one of the song titles. You should be able to find some videos. There is no point in pasting any particular links since they’d be taken down in a matter of hours.
Album’s out there. Amazing that it took them losing their bassist (coma) for them to get together and do their most solid album since White Pony. It’s not much like White Pony, but it certainly has it’s moments. Was honestly expecting a weak album without Chi. But the whole
thing with Chi seems to have woken them up.
Hoping they release the Eros album. That’s supposed
to be White Pony 2 from what i’m hearing.
And from what I understand about Chi. He’s still not awake, per se. He can open his eyes sometimes, and responds when spoken to. He’s recovering, but it’ll be a long time until he’s really up and going.
The last I heard of Deftones was ‘Saturday Night Wrist.’ How does this one compare to that one?
More focused and heavier but more or less equally melodic.
At least sounds this way to me, there are people out there who think SNW is the best album they ever recorded but Im not one of them. Its solid but kinda mediocre.