Combined with the modern influences on our new album, it's like the past and future created the present.Sharon den Adel said in an interview with Metal Ways: Actually, "Faster" sounds a bit like "Wicked Game"s...

"Den Adel's explanation of the song's lyrics in an interview with Songfacts: "Faster" is about the fact that you have to stay in conflict to get what you want as an individual in life.

And sometimes you're frustrated about it and you just want to fast forward away from the problem, but you also have to deal with the thing that's happening at that time in your life.The Unforgiving's first short film, Mother Maiden, was combined with the music video to "Faster" and released on 31 January 2011.

[5] The film begins with the character of Mother Maiden (played by Dawn Mastin[6]) writing a letter and reciting a monologue which explains that she controls lost souls to seek revenge on "those with a dark heart."

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.

Finally, we are shown a man shaving before an arm bursts from his bathroom mirror and strangles him.

[8] At the same time as the release of the full "Faster" music video and Mother Maiden short film, an edited version of the song was released on 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).