Spoken word album by late Deftones bassist Chi Cheng to be released
Deftones bassist Chi Cheng will be released in January.The album, titled ‘The Head Up Project’, was recorded at “a night of poetry, belly dancing, music, insults, alcohol and other forms of flattery”, at the Paris Cafe in Sacramento, California in January 2001.Only 200 copies of the album will be made available, which are available for pre-order here.Cheng, a founding member of the band along with singer Chino Moreno, died in 2013 aged 42. He had been in a “partially conscious state” since a 2008 car accident.Cheng’s car accident in 2008 meant that the band abandoned work on their planned sixth record ‘Eros’.“‘Eros’ was never finished or released due to Chi’s car accident.