DEFTONES Eros Gets Leaked and GWAR Get Investigated | The Podcast That Rocked

**Luke Spencer** (0:13)
Welcome to The Podcast That Rocks weekly podcast that talks about news in the world of rock, metal, alternative and everything in between. My name is Luke.

**Alex** (0:21)
My name is Alex.

**Luke Spencer** (0:22)
Thank you all so much for tuning in on this Wednesday evening or whatever time it is. We can't tell where you're all listening from. I'm sure it's lovely there. Thank you all so much for having the time to spend with us as well. As we go over some of these things, some of the stories are ridiculous. Nothing's too awful. Some of it's dumb.
But nothing too tragic or awful. We count our wins when we can. Yes.
Thank you to all the Steves listening to us live on YouTube right now. Fifty likes will play at least one round of Festival Rocker Flop. We have one Super Chat already, so you'll get your own random Festival. I think that's all the business we have outside of two things I want to say. Yesterday, I was invited to the Risotto Show in St. Louis. The points and the Risotto Show have posted a new video. If you're looking for a list video, Risotto and I talked about 10 infamous concerts, not festivals, but actual infamous concerts that is up this afternoon. We talk about everything from A Rage Against the Machine riots, both Guns N Roses riots, you name it, it's on there. It's a nice long discussion of shenanigans.

**Alex** (1:30)
It's going on in St. Louis, man.

**Luke Spencer** (1:34)
It's just the Guns N Roses one in St. Louis. That's the venue I graduated from high school, remember? I know, that's why I'm like, well, you had to talk about that one. I mean, come on.

**Alex** (1:42)
Absolutely.

**Luke Spencer** (1:43)
Yeah. So along with that, I also posted on the heavies channel, crazy concert stories from Warped Tour, DC.
People had photo evidence of everything that happened at Warped Tour, DC, including the return of the Poop River.

**Alex** (1:58)
Oh, boo.

**Luke Spencer** (2:00)
See, last year in 2025, there was a massive storm at the end of night too, so everyone understood why it happened. This year, we don't know why, but that's what it was.

**Alex** (2:10)
Don't ask that question.

**Luke Spencer** (2:13)
So wholesome moments. This is a minor teeny spoiler, but it's quick. Couple got married at Warped Tour, DC in the crowd, and they had matching checkerboard, like the Vans checkerboard on the bridegroom. She had a veil. Yeah, it was actually pretty cute.

**Alex** (2:27)
So cute little elder emo's tie in the knot.

**Luke Spencer** (2:30)
See, something good and wholesome could happen. That is not everything that happened at Warped Tour.

**Alex** (2:37)
Yee. We did one.

**Luke Spencer** (2:39)
Pooh River got a sequel. Yeah. Yes. We'll talk about Warped Tour later. Not DC, but Warped Tour. We're going to talk about the topic at hand. And there was a poll in chat right now relating to everything going on. Let me share my screen so that way, whatever you do want to click, you can share your screen, entire screen. Let's not do that right away. Wabam, wabam, wabam.
On Monday, we found out the news. Eros, the long-awaited, buried and shelled album from Deftones, roughly 2008, the final album with Chi Cheng got leaked, hard leaked, and posted all over.
This was the last material with Chi. And many people, including myself, wondered if it would ever see the light of day. Well, one person got real impatient and said, screw it, everyone gets to hear it now.
So, I left the poll open. It's pretty anonymous, but it is, you can only click once for obvious reasons. I want to see what the Steve's have to say about this. Diehard Deftones fan, this is not how I wanted Eros to be heard. Is that fair? I don't know. So, Alex, when you heard the news, what did you think when you saw the headlines? Because this spread pretty quick. At least the headlines about it, you know.

**Alex** (4:08)
Totally. I feel like you and I are probably kind of in sync with this. I love that you and I wait to talk about it in depth until we get here. So, it's super raw and it's super real, but I feel like you and I are probably in sync in that, A, this is not how we wanted it. B, it feels sticky if you try and listen to it like this.

**Luke Spencer** (4:30)
It does feel like the surprise of it has been ruined a little bit.

**Alex** (4:35)
Yeah.

**Luke Spencer** (4:35)
Just a little.
Look outside your window, that long shelved Slipknot album finally saw the light of day, and they had previous members who have passed on since then as well, and it still finally got posted after so many delays, they made it work.