Deftones’ Chino Moreno Reveals Whether Lost ‘Eros’ Album Will Ever Be Released
Deftones diehards have been on the hunt for the band’s legendary lost album, Eros, for more than 15 years. The record tracked in 2008 was intended to be the follow-up to their fifth LP, 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist, but then shelved indefinitely.
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In a new interview with the Guardian, singer Chino Moreno gives fans a long-awaited update on the fate of the album that was scrapped after late bassist Chi Cheng was left in a coma following a 2008 car crash; Cheng died of complications from the accident in 2013 at age 42. While bootlegs of some of the songs have floated around online for years, Moreno said despite being asked about the LP all the time the truth is it’s likely to stay on the vault.
“It will most likely never see the light of day,” said Moreno. “That would involve going back to that period and resurrecting unfinished things, and somehow bringing them to completion. ‘Dallas’ is the only song that was anywhere near finished.”
Moreno said the band’s just-released tenth studio album, Private Music, started with ideas they’d been working on separately during the COVID-19 pandemic. But when they actually got together to work on it, “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.”
Private Music — which dropped just six weeks after the band first announced it — was preceded by the singles “My Mind Is a Mountain” and “Milk of the Madonna,” and features the songs “Locked Club,” “Ecdysis,” “Infinite Source,” “Souvenir” “Cxz,” “I Think About You All the Time,” “Cut Hands,” “~Metal Dream” and “Departing the Body.”
The band is in the midst of a headlining tour in support of the album, which will stop at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B.C. on Friday night (Aug. 22).
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