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CMU Approved
Approved: Deftones – Rocket Skates
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 February 2010
It’s been far too long since Deftones have released any new material. Especially since the carrot of their sixth album has been dangled so many times.
Since 2006’s ‘Saturday Night Wrist’ the band have been through a lot, of course. The original follow-up, ‘Eros’, was close to completion in late 2008 when bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident, leaving him in the coma in which he still remains. Though work on the album continued, the band eventually decided last summer to shelve it and start again (a decision they say was artistic and nothing to do with Cheng’s condition).
The result of these sessions is new album, ‘Diamond Eyes’, which is due for release in May. While it’s too early to say if it’ll have been worth the four year wait, the free download, ‘Rocket Skates’, which went online this morning certainly bodes well. In many ways it’s classic Deftones, featuring the sharper, faster riffing of their eponymous 2003 album with echoes of the title track from 1997’s ‘Around The Fur’.
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