David Retes started playing records around 1998 in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona. In 2000, he started making his own music. That is also when he adopted the Forsaken is Dead alias. David Forsaken spent the next few years developing his own style and finally in 2005 he saw his first vinyl release on Meta4.
Nowadays boss of From the morgue rec and Six feet underground rec he has released EP's on several majors industrial hardcore label such as Industrial Strength, Booby Trap, USR, Apocalypse recordings, Hard Kryptic...
Audience still remember his great performance at Ground Zero Festival 2009 (NL).