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Artist News
Deftones shelve album and start again
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 25 June 2009
Deftones have announced that they have scrapped plans to release their fifth album, ‘Eros’, and have got to work on the next one instead.
As previously reported, the band’s bassist, Chi Cheng, is currently recovering in hospital after being involved in a car crash last year which left him in a coma for several months. As a result of the delay this placed on the completion of the album, the band say ‘Eros’ no longer represents them as they are now and so will be shelved for the time being.
Writing on their MySpace blog, the band said: “The songs recorded for ‘Eros’ are very special to us as they are the latest with Chi (and we certainly hope not the last); they have history and significant meaning to us. However, as we neared completion on ‘Eros’, we realised that this record doesn’t best encompass and represent who we are currently as people and as musicians. And although those songs will see the light of day at some point, we collectively made the decision that we needed to take a new approach, and with Chi’s condition heavy on our minds while doing so. We needed to return to the studio to do what we felt was right artistically. Our inspiration and unity as a band is stronger than it has ever been before and we needed to channel that energy into our music, and deliver to our fans what you rightly deserve: the best Deftones record that we can make”.
They added:”The decision to hold off on releasing ‘Eros’ has no connection with Chi’s condition or anything associated. This was, and is, purely a creative decision by the band to write, record, and deliver an amazing product. As a result we feel like this is the best record we’ve ever written. And although Chi is not playing bass with us, his presence is dramatically felt in our hearts and on our minds everyday when we step into that studio, and you will feel it in the music”.
