Deftones Announce Title And Release Date For New Album, Preview New Song
Deftones have set “Diamond Eyes” as the title to their new album which will see a release on May 18th. The song “Rocket Skates” will be the first track to surface from the effort and will be made available as a free download via www.deftones.com on February 23rd.
For now, a sneak preview has been made available online here and can also be seen below:
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That’s the best news I’ve heard all week…Excited to see a solid release date. Good album name too for once – a lot better than Saturday Night Wrist. And the sample…sounds interesting
soooooooo pumped
This is very pleasing news. Love the revamped website artwork/graphic design. Diamond Eyes….oh yes, please.
This is great news. Sounds better (obviously) than the clips I’ve seen online from all the benefit shows. Cool name too, even though I thought Saturday Night Wrist sounded interesting, it just didn’t sound up to par.
I saw them Septemberish 08, one of the last shows before Chi’s accident, and they played a new song back then, however it might have been from the scrapped Euros album maybe? It’s hard to see the Deftones live if you’re not already familiar with the music, it can be a little hard to make out some of it.
Eros….
Maybe they used some ‘Euros’ when shopping in the EU.
I knew I was wrong as I was typing it, I was just too lazy to look it up. Now that I think about, Euros sounds stupid anyway. Good thing they aren’t naming it that.
best news I’ve heard all day!!!
Crap’d em. That was definitely a very short teaser though.
Very short indeed. But that is one helluva mean riff by ol’ Stef. This is going to be an amazing release, I can feel it in my bones.
I’m with ya Surly….it’s all about that meaty riff so far.
I definitely don’t anticipate anything new touching the Deftones in 2010.
stoked for it
May 18th will be EPIC
Nice clip but it doesn’t really say too much. I have high hopes though. Instead of Eros they should call the postponed album Eros Ramazzotti. Guaranteed hundreds of thousands more albums shipped.
36chimairafists is stoked.
36chimairafists is stoked!
DEFSHUGGAH!!!
For me, the Deftones have been the strongest from the era they came up in. Amongst their peers, they have continually written interesting and passionate music.
I’m sure this album will rock. I’m looking forward to the lyrics as much as the music. Considering what they’ve been going through.
Hopefully Eros will be released one day with Chi rockin’ out on stage. \m/
is this song title a reference to johnny knoxville’s rocket skates stunt in jackass?
Its a Toe Jam & Earl reference
@weedman – haha nice. Out for blood I see….
White Pony > Team Sleep > Everything else the Deftones have ever done
Seriously guys, prepare to be disappointed
Tsk@Ganglor….O, ye of little faith! Mind you, I never thought much of Team Sleep. Bit of a snore-feast really….
@Surly – I liked Team Sleep because their album was cohesive just like White Pony was. The Deftones albums since White Pony have just been a fucking tease. Release a good single, get our hopes up, album releases, majority of album is forgettable filler, repeat. At this point I am more interested in their unreleased stuff. They have at least 2 albums of unreleased material and I am curious to hear the music they made that didn’t meet up to their standards.
Mm..I was just looking for any excuse to use my ‘snore’ pun. I liked the single off their record, Foreign Flag. Anyway, I’d have to say their s/t release was solid. It was dark, brooding and their heaviest. I find myself listening to it even more than the much lauded, White Pony. SNW was largely a disappointment imo. The band is first to admit that it was less than desirable. The only stand out tks on that are Kimdracula and Rivière. True, they may have a stack of ‘unreleased’ tracks, but what’s not to say they’re any better than those ‘released’ tracks you don’t like? Potentially the Teething, Can’t Even Breathe era would be very cool to hear more of. I thought Lovers was a great b-side.
What is a snore-feast anyway? Their Self-Titled release was alright but whenever I listen to it I find myself skipping through a lot of the tracks. And Saturday Night Wrist is actually kind of the reason why I want to hear their unreleased material. I think I read in Spin that they recorded an albums worth of material but then scrapped it then recorded what we know as Saturday Night Wrist. I want to hear what they thought was worse than SNW. It’s not that I am expecting the unreleased songs to be good, it’s just that it has a better chance to sound different than what I expect from their new actually going to be released work.
Snore-feast…Like a person that’s sleeping snores. Oh, I meant fest…like festival. Not feast. So a snore-fest. Team Sleep…Snoring….sleeping…..boring…festival…yeah…ha. So yeah, moving right along.
Incidentally, this guy has posted an amazing array of classic Deftones videos all in HD. It is worth a look. It’s seriously the most comprehensive collection I have ever seen..: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrVesanique
excited for the album BUT at the same time not gonna be a FULL deftones album cause mr.chi cheng will not be on it obviously….im sure its going to be brutal cause steph wrote the whole thing…..EROS will see some release when CHI is back with the deftones it will happen ive had dreams of it!!!!
DEFTONES 2010 SEE YOU ON THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
To me this band has progressed with every album they have released. They and some fans somehow seem to think otherwise. Self-Titled and Saturday Night Wrist were 2 of my favorite albums by them and I’ve been a fan since ’96. The older deftones sound was good but I think they matured the way most bands do. In this case though they actually did improve with more melody and dynamics. I hate when bands say they have matured but in all reality they just don’t have the same flair they once had and the magic is gone. In deftones case they have matured but with that they have become better musicians and Chino has really grown as a vocalist. Once again this is just my opinion and don’t expect all to agree. I just wanted to state that some old fans actually prefer the new material compared to the old.
man
Stef is coming with that HEAVY shit lately
I love it
I wanna hear them top “rats rats rats”
that song was nuts
Eros is still around… When Vega joined the band they started writing songs with him and this is the result.. Its going to be fucking sick. Eros will be released if or when Chi comes out of his Coma.
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