Diamond Eyes

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Diamond Eyes Produced and mixed by Nick Raskulinecz (Alice in Chains, Coheed & Cambria, Foo Fighters), and recorded and engineered by Paul "Fig" Figueroa (Alice in Chains, Bad Religion), Diamond Eyes is a powerful combination of muscular impact and expansive atmospherics clarity that charts the latest development in the band's ever growing sonic range. Opening with the title track's grinding riffs and near subliminal hook, the album's range encompasses the blowtorch attack of "CMND/CNTRL" and the sinister melancholy that underpins "Beauty School". As ever, the album blends the band's seamless ability to float between genres "Sex Tape" glides with an eerie, discomforting beauty, while the combination of battering rhythms and Chino Morenos harsh howl ensure that "Royal" demonstrates Deftones' continuing ability to enthral with visceral sounds. Diamond Eyes also represents former Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega's recording debut with Deftones, standing in for Chi Cheng, who was seriously injured in a car accident in November 2008. Ten years after the release of the classic album White Pony, Deftones are back with what is being described as their best work to date. 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 albuman exercise in immersive, textural metal that blindsided the band's rap-rock-loving (then) fanbasetheir 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 timewhich 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 onwardsnot 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 hereeverything 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 richnessthough the ambience here is more organic than in the past. Compositionally, though, this is the group on safe groundtaking 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. --Mike Diver This link will take you offin a new window Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. 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