Dream Theater's "Forsaken" doesn't just play over the video, the song is the story, and every visual beat answers to the music's architecture instead of the other way around. You watch a relationship collapse in perfect sync with a 9-minute progressive metal odyssey, which means the heartbreak doesn't come from dialogue or conventional narrative tension. It comes from the moment the song shifts key and the animation has to follow it down. For fans who've spent years feeling prog metal in their bones, this is what it looks like when someone finally gave the music the same respect they do.

Dream Theater's song Forsaken gets an animated music video directed by Yasufumi Soejima and produced by Gonzo. The song concerns a man visited at night by a vampiress: he believes she is showing him beautiful things while she is really drinking his blood. The band drew the song from Ivan Turgenev's short story Phantoms. Soejima moves the tale from its 19th century roots into a future science-fiction world. His male lead is an innocent man, cast off and imprisoned by a cruel society, and the woman who comes to him is an android built as a plaything for an ancient regime.