Deftones frontman Chino Moreno says that the band's 'lost' album "will most likely never see the light of day".
The Sacramento band began work on what was intended to be their sixth studio album in the spring of 2007, and announced its working title, Eros, in January 2008. That April, the quintet began recording with producer Terry Date, but the studio sessions halted in the first week of November after bassist Chi Cheng and his sister was involved in a car crash in Santa Clara, California, which left Cheng in a coma.
In July 2009, the band announced that were indefinitely shelving Eros and were focussing their attention on writing a new record with new bassist Sergio Vega. In 2014, to mark the one year anniversary of Chi Cheng's passing on April 13, 2013, Chino Moreno uploaded one song from the sessions, Smile, to YouTube, but it was swiftly removed by the group's record label.
