Faster (Manic Street Preachers song) Faster (Manic Street Preachers song) "Faster" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in 1994 by record label Epic as the first single from the band's third studio album, "The Holy Bible". The single reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart. "Faster" is the only song featured on "The Holy Bible" that was included on their 2002 compilation album "Forever Delayed". "Faster" has been categorized under the genres alternative rock, hard rock, punk rock and post-punk. Rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards and bass guitarist Nicky Wire wrote the lyrics of both "P.C.P." and
Manic Street Preachers fire for introspective melancholy. According to AllMusic, the album "takes the hard rock inclinations of "Generation Terrorists" to an extreme." The band also stated that the choice to work with Dave Eringa again was important for this album: "We finished work in November and then just went straight into a demo studio and we came out about four weeks later with the album all finished. We were all happy with all the songs, we knew what they wanted to sound like, so we didn't want to use a mainstream producer because they've got their own sound and vision of what