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"Faster"
Single by Within Temptation
from the album The Unforgiving
Released	21 January 2011
Format	Digital download
Genre	Symphonic rock
Length	4:24 (Album Version) 3:16 (Radio Edit)
Label	Roadrunner
Writer(s)	Sharon den Adel Robert Westerholt Daniel Gibson
Within Temptation singles chronology
"Utopia" (2009) "Faster" (2011) "Sinėad"" (2011)

"Faster" is the first single from Dutch symphonic metal/rock band Within Temptation's album The Unforgiving. It had its worldwide radio première on 96.3 Rock Radio on 21 January 2011 and, within two days, the song's audio clip gained almost 200,000 views on Youtube.^{[citation needed]}

The song's accompanying music video was released on January 31, 2011, alongside the Mother Maiden short film, and reached 35 thousand views on Youtube in its first day.^[1]

The single remained in the Dutch Top 100 for thirteen weeks, peaking at number eleven.^[2]

Background [edit]

Robert Westerholt said that;

Sharon den Adel said that;

Track [edit]

Digital Download

1. "Faster" (Radio Edit) - 3:16
2. "Faster" (International Radio Edit) - 3:15

CD Single

1. "Faster" (Album Version) - 4:24
2. "Where is the Edge" - 3:59

Charts [edit]

Videos [edit]

Mother Maiden short film [edit]

The Mother Maiden character, portrayed by Dawn Mastin.

The Unforgiving's first short film, Mother Maiden, was combined with the music video to Faster and released on 31 January 2011.^[6] The film begins with the character of Mother Maiden (played by Dawn Mastin^[7]) writing a letter and reciting a monologue which explains that she controls lost souls to seek revenge on "those with a dark heart."

While Mother Maiden continues to speak, the film cuts between her and the "lost souls" which she controls. Firstly, we see the character of Sinéad dragging an unconscious man on top of a train, who awakens just before being killed by a low hanging rail road signal. We then cut to "The Triplets" (more of Mother Maiden's workers) crawling into a window, after which an unseen woman screams and the Triplets reappear with their mouths smeared with blood. Finally, we are shown a man shaving before an arm bursts from his bathroom mirror and strangles him. At this point the Faster music video begins with the band playing the song in full. As it ends, we see Sinéad's corpse awakening in a morgue.^[8] The script was written by Steven O'Connell and Tim Smit and the music video and short movie were Directed by Joeri Molsheimer.^[9]

Personnel [edit]

Cast [edit]

• Dawn Mastin as Mother Maiden
• Nicola Hemink as Sinéad
• Key Graham as Sinéad's Fater
• Christopher Van Dujin as Triplets
• Matthijx Kat as Man on train
• Banny Bakker as Shaving Man

Alternate music video [edit]

At the same time as releasing the full "Faster" music video and Mother Maiden short film, an edited version of the song was released onto Youtube with the same footage inter-cut (rather than as originally presented in their separate components of the three short-films -Mother Maiden, Sinéad and Triplets).^[10]

References [edit]

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