Chino has always and will always bring that influence to the band - just listen to his work with Crosses and Team Sleep - but on those two albums that effect was all too palpable for many, even if those discs had their share of heavy tracks, too. The band’s 2003 self-titled effort saw the band experiment with more electronic elements, atmospherics and slower tempos, and its followup, Saturday Night Wrist, leaned hard into that direction. Thankfully, I think it’s pretty clear why Diamond Eyes resonated so deeply with Deftones fans: it was a comeback album, of sorts.
In a way it was close, but in another it wasn’t: Koi No Yokan received only one less vote than Diamond Eyes overall, but got smoked in the points department due to the volume of #1 votes (and top 5 nods) it received. As we have with several bands on this list, when learning that Deftones’ 2010 entry, Diamond Eyes, outpaced their other efforts during the decade, we are forced to surmise why our intrepid list of voters, nearly 200 Folks Who Purportedly Know Lots of Stuff About Metal, picked this particular one.
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