Just because it’s the last thing that Chi played on. To open up those files would probably be heavy too. It's nice to fantasize about what Eros would've sounded like (especially after hearing that massive riff Steph and Abe were jamming on in the second studio video), but if I were you I wouldn't get your hopes up. So that would be more of a nostalgic kind of thing there. For example, the band hasn't even bothered to release 'Crest', which was a fully completed, last minute scratch from Gore's tracklist. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be the band's sixth full-length release following. It was the first album to feature bassist Sergio Vega, who replaced original bassist Chi Cheng. Any time we get together we’re always sort of looking forward, or creating something in the moment. Diamond Eyes is the sixth studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on by Reprise Records. It would take basically going in and finishing it. Read more Deftones: Even in our worst moments. An album tentatively titled Eros was originally intended to be their sixth full-length release, but was not released due to bassist Chi Cheng entering a coma after a serious car accident that occurred in November 2008. Speaking to Uproxx, Chino Moreno states, “I’m not really quite sure (if Eros will ever come out). Deftones‘ frontman Chino Moreno has said that he is open to one day finishing the band’s lost 2008 album ‘Eros’ as an experiment’. Diamond Eyes is the sixth studio album by American rock band Deftones.The album was released through Warner Bros.
The band ultimately followed up Saturday Night Wrist with 2010’s Diamond Eyes, which featured Quicksand man Sergio Vega on bass. On April 13, 2014, the first anniversary of Cheng’s death, Deftones released one song from the session, Smile, which was swiftly removed from YouTube by their label: no other tracks recorded for Eros have surfaced. Deftones put the album on ice after a horrific November 2008 car accident left bassist Chi Cheng in a coma, from which he would never recover.