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Deftones announce new album

By | Published on Thursday 18 February 2010

Hello, readers. Welcome to the most exciting new album news of the year so far. Deftones will release their sixth album, entitled ‘Diamond Eyes’, on 17 May.

The album is technically the band’s seventh. However, as previously reported, they decided to shelve their sixth, ‘Eros’, last year, as it featured bassist Chi Cheng, who remains in a coma following a car crash in November 2008. Speaking about the new material last July, frontman Chino Moreno told Kerrang!: “I know that, deep down, Chi would be proud of us and, in a big way, we’re doing this [new album] for him. We’re trying to do the best we can for him, for us, and for the situation, and that’s to bury our heads in music. If anything positive can come out of this, then working on this music has really brought the rest of us guys very, very close”.

The band will release a track from the album, ‘Rocket Skates’, as a free download via their website – www.deftones.com – on 23 Feb.



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