The Making Of DREAM THEATER's 'Forsaken' Video: More Information Revealed

January 29, 2008

DREAM THEATER's new anime-themed video for the song "Forsaken", taken from the band's latest album, "Systematic Chaos", received its small-screen premiere this past Saturday (January 26) on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball". The clip was created by the Japanese animation studio Gonzo and director Yasufumi Soejima and can be viewed below. The video's executive producer, Joey Goubeaud of Amusement Park Media, coordinated the efforts between DREAM THEATER and Gonzo.

According to a posting on the AnimeNewsNetwork.com web site, the band based the song on Ivan Turgenev's "Phantoms", a short story about an enigmatic woman who haunts a man as he travels the world. However, instead of the 19th century setting of the short story, the band agreed with Soejima's decision to place the music video in a future science-fiction setting. Soejima said the video's male lead is an innocent man abandoned and jailed by an "inhumane world." The female lead (who is described as "an apparition, a restless soul, an evil spirit, a sylphide, a vampire" or something else entirely in Turgenev's story) is "an android that was made as the toy of [an] ancient regime."

Soejima had previously worked with LINKIN PARK, THE STRANGLERS, and the Japanese musician PERFUME. Notably, Jean-Jacques Burnel of THE STRANGLERS contributed several pieces to the soundtrack of Gonzo's "Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo", an anime series for which Soejima was the digital director and textile designer.

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