Chino Moreno Reveals If Lost Deftones Album "Eros "— Abandoned After Bassist Was Left Comatose — Will Ever See 'Light of Day' Ilana KaplanAugust 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM Josh Brasted/FilmMagic Chino Moreno in Chicago in August 2024 Chino Moreno has revealed whether Deftones' lost album Eros will see the ...
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Ilana KaplanAugust 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Chino Moreno has revealed whether Deftones' lost album Eros will see the "light of day"
"We're always asked about Eros," the frontman told The Guardian in an interview of the album which was abandoned after the band's bassist Chi Cheng was left comatose
Cheng died in April 2013, four years after a car accident left him in a coma
Chino Moreno opened up about the status of Deftones' lost album Eros.
In an interview with The Guardian published on Thursday, Aug. 21, the lead vocalist and guitarist revealed whether the album Eros, which was abandoned after the band's bassist Chi Cheng was left comatose, will ever see the "light of day."
"We're always asked about Eros," Moreno, 52, began. "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."
He then noted that the song "Dallas" was the only one "anywhere near finished."
Moreno then noted that the band's new album Private Music began "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," he said.
Moreno concluded: "So going back to try to capture what was happening back during Eros, and finishing those ideas, doesn't really make sense."
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Frank Delgado, Stephen Carpenter, Chino Moreno and Chi Cheng of Deftones in February 2001
Eros was an album that Deftones worked on between 2008 and 2009.
During the making of the album, Cheng was in a car accident, which left him in a coma. It prompted the band to hold off on releasing the LP at the time, but eventually, the album was shelved.
Cheng remained in a semi-conscious state for years before he died in April 2013 from cardiac arrest at the age of 42.
Moreno also spoke to The Independent about the status of Eros in 2016, revealing at the time that musically it was "probably 75-80% done and lyrically about halfway there." However, he noted he "wasn't too happy with the material."
"Some of the music was lacking a little bit," he told the publication. "I had faith it was going to come together and be great in the end, but we never got to that point."
Moreno further noted that once Cheng's accident happened, "everything came to a halt with the Eros sessions."
Ultimately, he wasn't interested in going back and having his successor, bassist Sergio Vega, finish the parts.
"If the record were finished and we were just sitting on it, we probably would have put it out by now, maybe even given it away, just so that people can hear it, but it would take a lot more work to get it done," said Moreno.
He added: "But when we get together, we're much more fascinated with where we are in this moment, trying to create something new."
Deftones' 10th studio album Private Music is out now.
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