Chino Moreno: Shelved Deftones Album Eros "Will Most Likely Never See the Light of Day"

"The project was intended to be Deftones' sixth studio album back in 2008, with the band hitting the studio with producer Terry Date that April. Tragically, the sessions were halted in November after bassist Chi Cheng and his sister were involved in a car accident in Santa Clara, California, which left Cheng in a coma. The band later announced that it was shelving Eros indefinitely in July 2009 to write a record with new bassist Sergio Vega."

"The song was quickly deleted by Deftones' record label. "We're always asked about Eros," Moreno said in the new piece in The Guardian. "It will most likely never see the light of day. That would involve going back to that period and resurrecting unfinished things, and somehow bringing them to completion. 'Dallas' is the only [other] song that was anywhere near finished.""

""This new album started with ideas we'd been working on alone, through the pandemic. And when we got together to actually start making the record, none of us wanted to look back at those ideas from the pandemic - we wanted to capture the moment we're in today. So going back to try to capture what was happening back during Eros, and finishing those ideas, doesn't really make sense.""

Eros was intended as Deftones' sixth studio album, with sessions beginning in April 2008 with producer Terry Date. Sessions stopped in November after bassist Chi Cheng and his sister were involved in a car accident in Santa Clara, leaving Cheng in a coma. The band shelved Eros indefinitely in July 2009 and moved forward with new bassist Sergio Vega. Only 'Smile' surfaced from the sessions in mixed/mastered form before being removed by the record label, and 'Dallas' was the only other song near completion. Releasing Eros would require resurrecting and finishing unfinished material, while the band chose to focus on capturing the present for Private Music rather than revisiting Eros-era ideas. Earlier statements likewise characterized the Eros material as incomplete.

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