Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
The A.V. Club	B
Allmusic
Alternative Press
BBC Music	favourable
BLARE Magazine
Entertainment Weekly	B
Kerrang!
NME	8/10
Q
Rock Sound	8/10
Rolling Stone
The Skinny
Slant
Spin	7/10
Sputnikmusic	5/5

Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by the American alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2010 by Reprise Records, after their departure from longtime label Maverick. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be their sixth full-length release and follow-up to Saturday Night Wrist (2006), but was not released due to bassist Chi Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2008, eventually resulting in his death in 2013. The release of Eros was put on hold in favor of Diamond Eyes in June 2009. It is also the first album to feature former Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega, who replaced Cheng.

Diamond Eyes was a critical and commercial success; obtaining a normalized score of 78 on review aggregator Metacritic, while achieving top 20 chartings on the Billboard 200, German Albums Chart and many other European charts. It was the band's highest charting album on the Billboard 200 since their 2003 album Deftones. Diamond Eyes debuted at No. 6, while previous album Saturday Night Wrist debuted at No. 10.

Deftones started writing material for the successor to 2006's Saturday Night Wrist in early 2007. The band was dissatisfied with the lengthy writing and recording process of Saturday Night Wrist, and wanted to release a quick follow-up record in the same manner as earlier albums such as 1995's Adrenaline and 1997's Around the Fur, which were recorded without the digital audio program Pro Tools. Instead, those albums were recorded as just a band "in the room with just our instruments, no other distractions", according to frontman Chino Moreno.

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