"Berserk - Forces" is a 1997 single written and performed by Susumu Hirasawa

Susumu Hirasawa

is a Japanese electropop artist and composer.In 1972, he enrolled at . From 1972 to 1978, he performed in his first band Mandrake, a progressive rock group influenced by King Crimson and Yes. In 1979 he formed a New Wave synth-rock & techno-pop band called P-Model, along with two former members of...

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A week after the single's release, Forces (TV version) was included in the Kenpu Denki Berserk Original Soundtrack

Berserk anime soundtrack

is based on the popular heroic fantasy Berserk anime TV series first broadcast in Japan from 1997 to 1998.Susumu Hirasawa has composed the anime's soundtrack. All tracks are instrumental except the last three. The music genre is rather eclectic with various instruments such as piano, violin, harp,...

 (剣風伝奇ベルセルク オリジナル・サウンドトラック) which is based on the popular dark fantasy Berserk

Berserk (manga)

is a manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired world, the story centers around the characters of Guts, an orphaned mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the...

anime TV series first broadcast in Japan from 1997 to 1998.

Since then the TV series was released on DVD and DVD Box and distributed in Asia, Europe, America and Oceania.

The song Forces bears a strong resemblance to the song "Take The Wheel" of Hirasawa's 1994 album Aurora

Aurora (Susumu Hirasawa album)

was an album produced by Susumu Hirasawa and released on February 25, 1994. Of note is that some of Hirasawa's later albums included different versions of several of these songs. For example the song Aurora itself was later released in Solar Ray as Aurora 2 on 2001, and later rereleased as Aurora 3...

, albeit with reworked lyrics.

Track listing

1. BERSERK - Forces - 4:03
2. BERSERK - Forces - (GOD HAND MIX) 4:05
3. BERSERK - Forces - (オリジナル・カラオケ lit. original karaoke) 4:01
4. BERSERK - Forces - (TV version) 1:56

Domestic release

This stereo CD Single is released by Nippon Columbia (Columbia Music Japan) as CODA-1383 and is exclusively available on the Japanese domestic market. Japanese composer, writer, performer Susumu Hirasawa is pictured on the CDs back cover.