It feels like all of this was only yesterday. We may never get to hear Eros as it was meant to be released but at least now we can get a closer look at why.
The project was 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 in July 2009 to write a record with new bassist Sergio Vega. The only song to surface from the sessions in mixed/mastered form was titled “Smile,” and it was uploaded to YouTube by Moreno himself on April 13th, 2014, marking one year since the passing of Chi Cheng. 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.”
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