I listened to Melanie bc we had a live version laying around for a long ass time... I remember thinking back then it was a banger. Even tho this version is unfinished... yup, still a fucking banger.

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Quote from: Vesanic on Jun 22, 2026, 11:28 PMRIP Eros thread.

almost 20 years.

Oh fuck offffff

Eros = Missing link

Quote from: DefFsho on Jun 28, 2026, 05:03 AMChino sure likes diamonds above anything else besides waves and space and worshiped women.

you may be interested in the leitmotif document once i finish it...i'm about to put on my focusing music and try to chip away at it a bit since i've mainly been editing down clips for my archives. i've seen someone transcribe every eros track's lyrics and a lot of stuff jumped out at me.

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Quote from: DefFsho on Jun 27, 2026, 11:35 PMYeah, I dig that song that was taken out of ohms, Rain. More parts than others I really like. Upon just a couple listens it doesn't sound very cohesive to me, but like I say this shit always changes overtime imo

well now i'm a bit confused...i thought the ohms track that got leaked was named sensations? is this the same track or did a different track leak?

I believe it is the same song called sensations with rain in parentheses or vice versa. At least that's how I remember seeing it...did you like it?

i was able to find the eros files but not this one yet, so i don't know 

I am thirsty for Koi no Yokan demos and stems. It's not my favorite record by far. But when that record came out and I played it for several months on and off in 2012 and 2013, it was that record that I wondered what sounded like in demo phase. Like what they fucked around with during that time that didn't make it or turned into something. I would like to hear all demos and stems from all the records to be honest, but for some reason that one was so cinematic along with diamond eyes. I want to hear those demos. Gore is just a long demo to me when I listen to it. It's the weirdest record they ever made because of the production and mastering and mixing. Eros unfinished even sounds clearer than Gore. And I do get that they were striving for a live playing sound on that record. I remember reading that. And I do hear it, but I'm not satisfied

What a weird song diamond is. I'm talking about the beginning and pretty much the first half. It sounds so different from anything they've ever recorded, to me, even though I'm speculating this song wasn't done or official obviously. Like I said before, the second half of it is probably so far my favorite part of this unreleased famous record. But the beginning is so weird. I like to think it was just ideas. There are a few tracks that I cannot for the life of me tell what he is singing most of the time and I expected that material being unfinished.  Diamonds really went a lot further than we thought as a theme. Like a scrapped song from Ohms, Rain.... "Diamonds raining on you." 10 years prior, diamond eyes had the same line. Just the words were different. And then you have the song that I'm speaking of. Never thought of Chino as a diamond guy.🥴 "Diamonds rain across the sky".....
 Just something I recognized

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Quote from: DefFsho on Jun 27, 2026, 08:53 PMChi Cheng is the perfect example of a fallen artist that i think would have wanted his fans to hear music that he made. anybody who knew what Chi was like to us in the public, you know he's the type of guy that's like "fuck it. What's the big deal? The fans want to hear it let them hear it." that's what I think Chi would want. Along with Frank, Stephen and Abe. I hope his family can benefit from this somehow in the near future.. we have EROS. ITS OVER WITH FINALLY😊🥰

it is really great to hear this stuff, and in such a far more complete form than i figured it would be in. also, i'm having a very hard time hearing any bass/Chi. i dunno if i need to play it on proper speakers, and not just a laptop. what songs is the bass most obvious?

and the ohms b-side, rain, is great too

It would be quite easy for me to do a Chi Enhanced version of Eros, in fact i'd been wanting to do it. Does it sound good to you guys?

I certainly don't have a problem with it and who cares if someone does. They don't need to listen to it.
I wouldn't mind hearing it seamlessly like I would listening to a record straight through. I first got it in MP3 form and didn't bother with any other way because I figured somebody would make something better..

Quote from: Draken on Jun 28, 2026, 06:50 PMIt sounds 100% Kurt Travis, without being a DGD fan I could tell initially there was some emo influence on that chorus.

Yeah doesn't really sound like Shaun to me

Good day, sharinglungs. In the spirit of cliche, I'll just get the whole "long-time lurker" bit out of the way. I've never been a regular member here, but I've wandered in and out of this forum since the days of Eros' original promo cycle, before Chi's accident.

After giving the Eros leak a listen earlier this week, I figured it could use a proper remixing and mastering. I see that others are pursuing similar endeavors, but I just wrapped up my own remixing project this weekend, and due to the "no leak" policy, I'm happy to share via PM with those who may be interested.

This was a fun project for me, and it represents just one amateur's attempt to turn Eros into a proper listening experience. The leaked demos aren't really presented as "an album", so in pursuit of making Eros more listenable, I made some editorial choices beyond remixing/mastering that could be considered controversial. I want to be up front about that. "Diamond" strikes me as the album's natural closer, so I moved "Brianna" to a different spot in the tracklist. It's now sequenced between "Dallas" and "Margot", which feels like the right spot to me. Since we'll never know precisely what the band would have submitted as the final album sequence for mastering, I feel comfortable with this choice in the context of a fan remixing/mastering project.

Elsewhere, I cut "Margot" a bit short to eliminate some of the hot mic studio chatter that appears at the song's close; I assume those were inadvertent captures. And I also removed the buzzing intro to "Brenda" entirely. I'm not sure what the band's design was within that opening 50 seconds, or if they had further plans for "Brenda" that never materialized, but it struck me as a strange creative choice within the leak mix. It stalls out the album just as it's meant to get going. Now the transition from "Destiny" > "Brenda" feels smoother and punchier. I also cut the drumstick count-in at the start of "Trempest", because it felt more natural to move directly from the end of "Electra" to the opening chords of "Trempest". In all, I shaved 1:09 off the total runtime, and smoothed the transitions between each of the songs.

Once again, these edits were made in pursuit of making the Eros demos feel like a more natural listening experience. You may take issue with the little bits of creative license I've applied, and that's fine; you still have the original demo leak at your disposal. I did this for me, and figured I'd share with the sharinglungs community, since this is where the "real ones" are (and I cannot stand Reddit). Ultimately, I'm happy with how my remix and master turned out. It's certainly not quite like hitting "play" on a professionally mixed and mastered Deftones album, but it also comes across a lot more cleanly as a listening experience if you were going to play it between, say, Saturday Night Wrist and Diamond Eyes.

If you're interested in Eros [caliban's mix], feel free to drop me a PM.