Diamond Eyes

It's just a bummer.

Anyways, Risk is a song off of the album Diamond Eyes.

It's the sixth studio album by the Deftones, and it was released May 4th, May the 4th be with you, 2010.

And this song, uh, did not have a ton of, like, charting information on it, but the album itself did pretty well.

The singles off of the album were Diamond Eyes, Rocket Skates, Sextape, title of your sex tape, You've Seen the Butcher, and the charting-

The baker, like Candlestick Maker.

Ah, yes.

Like, they really don't want us to listen to it." But it's l- i- it's like you said, it's, it's Deftones I hadn't heard yet.

It's a, a missing link in between, like, kind of where I initially kind of fell away from the band to Diamond Eyes which is what really brought me back as a Deftones fan.

It's, so it's like I really wanted that link, like, to see what it sounded like.

And you know, then, uh, yeah, I, I found it a third time and I, I may or may not have downloaded it.

Mm-hmm

... up to Saturday Night Wrist, and even [sniffs] listening to Eros now, it does make, it does make that sort of transition period a bit more obvious.

Um, I feel like they continued [sniffs] in the experimentation of like a Saturday Night Wrist, but you can still see the seeds of a Diamond Eyes in there.

But I feel like it definitely sort of links more to where they were going with Saturday Night Wrist, except the band seemed united, uh, like a united front in the making of this, this album.

Like, so what were your opinions on the next couple albums? Like Self-Titled and Saturday Night Rists?

saturday night wrist i enjoy it's on i have a gigantic playlist that just shuffles when i'm splitting wood and i have no problem when those come on the diamond eyes album is another really solid album like i didn't have any issues with those like even gore and ohms i find stuff about those albums that i really like They kind of lost me with this last one.

Um, okay.

I've listened to private music a couple of times being like, I should like this and it just hasn't stuck.

so they did a really good job when they picked up Sergio Vega um now the reason they picked up Sergio Vega to play bass after Chi Chang's accident was he was in Quicksand and Quicksand is one of the bands that Deftone cites as an influence so imagine being able to like pull somebody that you like and respect and you know their music and and have them join your band like it's not ideal you don't want to ever lose a bandmate and if you're going to bring somebody in they didn't go the fan route we've talked about that in a few episodes where suddenly the bassist was a former fan right they found somebody that they were fans of themselves and And his bass work on this album is outstanding, and it's kind of forward.

There's a lot of bass elements in the album.

And Chino has said that Vega made a bigger contribution to Koi no Yokan than he had previously on Diamond Eyes.

And you can hear it sonically in how the songs are produced.

Shove It (My Own Summer) has got 739 million plays.

And then you've got, weirdly, Sextape from Diamond Eyes has got 580 million.

Sorry, it's not even, it's not even top-

It's, it-

It has grown on me quite a bit.

And actually the songs they play live, sound fucking huge so it's kind of weird how that's worked out in the long run but you get some stuff from Koi no Yokan as well and you know they'll lean into Diamond Eyes quite a bit it's a good set so they were very very very good I think their hydro performance was better I think the visuals in the outdoor level was insane and to see Deftones play in front of a crowd that big in Scotland It's kind of nuts where we are now with that band, considering how old they are.

I've got a theory that Deftones maybe have two albums left in them.

They've recently sold off their music catalogue as well, so they don't really need to do anything else.

The latest album is phenomenal.

But I think start with Diamond Eyes and go from

there.

My boss's brother-in-law did all the lighting and stuff for the last two years.