LORN - ANVIL [Official Music Video]

The year 2100. In an effort to combat overpopulation, the postmortem social network "Anvil" is released.
A fusion of both Japanese and Belgian comics inspirations and sensibilities, such as Ghost in the Shell, Akira or Peeters & Schuiten's work. "Anvil" invites us on a journey through the eyes of a young woman in her final moments on earth.
Artist: Lorn
Title: Anvil
Label: Wednesday Sound
Directed by GERIKO (Hélène Jeudy & Antoine Caëcke)
Design, Script & Animation by Antoine Caëcke & Hélène Jeudy
Character Animation by Anthony Lejeune & Manddy Wyckens
// Links //
LORN
www.lorn.bandcamp.com/album/ve...
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GERIKO
Contact: [e-mail]
vimeo.com/geriko
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VIMEO LINK : vimeo.com/181706731
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[@rememberedoldbuddy3553]

I remember when this was the sort of stuff people watched MTV for.

[@bloodlinehunter]

That means you're getting old bro.

[@yourvillain1736]

Liquid Television!!!

mtv just jersey shore fuckboys who would flinch if u thru a fake punch😂😂

[@workingguy6666]

Same, Gunnar

[@Niphredyl]

Before the internet, yeah

[@kurios2998]

My Mind: existential crisis My Heart: *THICC THIGHS*

[@phantomlordthehiddenbeast9182]

You mean your genitals

[@kurios2998]

Can't get a boner if you have none :(

[@SofaKingShit]

Well I'm just happy to be sucking on a bong.

[@smolboyi]

it's all in your head you are probably just weak minded, like me

[@smolboyi]

@@SofaKingShit thank God for bongs and cannabinoids!

[@michalrzmichalrz6656]

I like how her name is revealed to be "Ana Cassini". Cassini was the space probe that ended its mission by plunging itself into the surface of Saturn, never to be seen again, but sending out data until the very end...

[@hannahg5216]

❤

[@roidroid]

i was going to point out that this Video was uploaded 1 year BEFORE Cassini plummeted into Jupiter. But the dates were too close to not be coincidental, *this music video was released almost exactly 1 year* # before Cassini plummeted into Jupiter, an end-of-mission which was decided on over 3 yrs prior (at least). So yeah the dates & names could have been specified. (#: give or take 1 day, i'm not good with international date conversions)

[@zapper28]

It’s just an italian surname. There is no need to come up with anything more.

[@roidroid]

@@zapper28 it's a less than 1/100 chance to not be related

[@zapper28]

@@roidroid google search: lorn anvil video meaning "Anvil is a social network which allows you to destroy your body to fight against the overpopulation, but your conscience won't be destroyed and will join the social network Anvil. Soo, this is not really the Death, but a new kind of life created by the science to combat overpopulation." Officially. 100/100 It’s just an italian surname. There is no need to come up with anything more.

[@FlyshHD]

I don't think anybody is going to read this, but I'd like to share it anyway. A couple of years ago I went on an exchange to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a fall term during my undergraduate studies. It was my first time living abroad for a couple of months on end, I was very excited but also fairly nervous. When I was younger, I used to be afraid of leaving home for extended periods of time, so this was quite a big step. Contrary to my own expectations, however, everything went exceptionally well, I found dozens of new friends from around the globe that I am still in touch with to this day and I got to explore Scotland which - if you have never been - I can only highly recommend. On my very last day, I was even sad to leave which I never would have guessed before going there. To mark the occasion, I decided to hike Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh in the early hours of the morning so as to be at the summit at sunrise. I started walking around 3.30am when it was still fully dark and managed to make it to the top just in time to the see the sun come up. When I sat down at the top, I put on this song and listened to it while watching the city wake up. It was incredible and whenever I hear this song now, I always have to think back to that moment.

[@itirelengniyadzaltanabodib9543]

I am glad that you experienced that! cheers.

[@janrychly6651]

That sounds amazing. This song will always remind me of how I once lied on grass full of daffodils on a sunny summer day, petting my cat, and listening to my grandmum cooking lunch in the kitchen. Little I knew that this will be one of the last times I will see her alive. ❤

[@Trggx]

I imagined everything you said, with the song in the background. Thanks for sharing

[@Soroosh.S83]

You are one the top comments

[@janrychly6651]

@@Soroosh.S83 Well, he couldn't know that back when he was writing that comment

[@gustofing]

The fact that she had some sense of regret before she is transferred is horrifying

[@maxvillanueva3629]

Yeah. It makes me kind of glad we live in a time where technology hasn't reached the capability to fuck with our mortality and make decisions like these

[@CitricThunder]

@@maxvillanueva3629 mortality, no. morality however, yes

[@HerickOliveira]

Just curious, but where in the video does it show that she had "some sense of regret"?

[@TheObservingConstalation]

Gustavo Fring where do you see that she regrets it?

[@jtotheb5440]

@@HerickOliveira yeah, wanna know it too

[@Permaan-bo2sf]

Lyrics, for anyone wondering. H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M (ending verse) H M M M M

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

LORN - ANVIL ft. Geralt of Rivia

[@HondaAccord-fo5sz]

Microwave mmmmmmmmmmmm

[@sreelakshmi2584]

Thank you😁

[@SofaKingShit]

If anyone wants l can do a translation into German.

[@johnthurman4101]

10dogs2cats1donkey French?

[@NocturnalMissSo]

Still holds up, years later. Stunning visuals.

[@antonshvydkyi8551]

A bit more backstory from GERIKO, creators of this video "“Right from birth, people receive a robot for their daily needs - cleaning up, games, education, social and sexual life - until the day it signals the end of their right to live on Earth,” the duo explains. “The robot then follows his owner to one of the Anvil facilities, activating the machine that will end the citizen’s days. During this transition, the body is destroyed and a part of the robot is recycled as a server/funerary urn.”"

[@teknoboy15]

I feel that the robot doesn’t signal your end, it is your choice with the world being so over populated. She has the walk and look of determination and confidence, this is when she will move on from her physical place on earth. She is able to choose her own dimension onto which she will end.

[@csn583]

​@@teknoboy15 Sure, tell the people who made it what it means. 🤨

[@jaqkerouac6340]

​@@csn583 Yes !! Exactly so!! Please do!! In fact, please don't ever stop either!! It's so invigorating and energizing hearing others unique interpretations. And private touching meaning. The song will mean something absolutely completely different to every single person hearing and experiencing it. And that is the beauty in the freedom of individualism

[@nehemialalang7878]

1:20. This is when she choose what kind of artificial consciousness she would be.

[@leobgoo6350]

thank you for explaining

[@arichards761]

Lorn is a fucking beast, along with all the people who do his videos

[@TheJerbol]

Literally all of his videos are phenomenal pieces, so slept on

[@ED9306]

For this video, duo Geriko composed by Antoine Caëcke et Hélène Jeudy,

[@bradf.9365]

A real fucking artist.

[@pilet1172]

Anyone else wish the humming had a little more base to it? Just for some added epicness, the song is still great otherwise.

[@joachimsingh2929]

It's pronounced sprgjkbrfrptrpt.

[@lukehassenkamp2463]

Feel like this sort of animation would have done well in an episode of Love, Death and Robots.

[@amansingh-lj3tg]

Fucking zima blue man.

[@VanlockFR]

Yeah a cool short film for LD&R is the next logical step for the GERIKO team !

[@Dalexzz-dl1xt]

Or Black Mirror

[@tangoteflon1050]

great series

[@theroamingone3679]

Yeesssssss

[@reneekane9912]

My son is 14 and has Autism. This is his stim song. Music that can be felt physically can be very beneficial to people who are neurodivergent. ❤

[@crazypantz3492]

My friend has a younger son who is also autistic, maybe he can get something out of this song.

[@NinjaLifeCrisis]

I discovered this while in an altered state. It was simply a spiritual experience. Profound. It stayed with me for months. When I want to recapture the feeling I come back here and watch again. The combination of LORN's music and GERIKO's visuals is something else. I would love to see more from GERIKO in this style. I must have watched this video at least 100 times by now! Please come back and create some more masterpieces. Sadly, it has been 7+ years.

[@juliomatos37]

Could you describe this better? There was a period of a few months when I felt something similar to this often

[@AlexRanedo]

Do you guys produce music?@@juliomatos37

[@BODHISATTVA108]

мой совет профессионала - посети психолога

[@geijhtdinixorly8182]

Ah yes my favorite music genre EDM Electronic *_depression_* music

[@oprazzfreerunning6923]

Lmao

[@raunak8889]

Ok

[@OAGSTER99]

Oh my Gosh🍄

[@fenix-f-883]

Lornwave

[@deevon99]

you good bro?

[@khajiithasskooma]

Lorn: Geralt, I need some help writing lyrics for this track. Geralt: Mmmh Lorn: Perfect! Thanks for having my back!

[@danielcastillo1222]

I love the White Wolf and your comment ***winds howling***

[@hostileenvironment6107]

I’m confused though what does this video have to do with the witcher universe? :-0

[@SlyHikari03]

Ghost in the shell type vibes from this music video. Also, the track is rad.

[@jayjetson5312]

👻🤖🕳🖤

[@xrayban2]

yes, her body now belongs to an AI

[@_Mr.Black_]

Gantz vibes also.

[@Mourne84]

Thought exactly the same

[@fogsster]

The description does say that it is inspired by works like Ghost in the Shell, soooo-

[@TimeMachineMechanic]

This song makes me cry every time I listen to it, and I don't know why... I guess it just feels larger than life somehow. Lorn has a way of doing that with his music.

[@indfnt5590]

That happens to me but with Golden Brown by the Stranglers sometimes.

[@nicknichter4442]

I get the sense in this song that she's entering a simulation or even becoming the god of a simulation and having to take on the weight of being the creator of life in whatever simulation she's about to enter is sad and painful and hard and amazing and wonderful and beautiful and I just feel the same way you do I start to cry a little bit but I love it

[@Kuzeru]

@@nicknichter4442 She is being lured into the reincarnation cycle. We are trapped. Earth is a soul prison.

[@jonjon3829]

not with his recent ones, but at least he' not drugged out of his mind anymore, think he's given us enough

[@Marsoopilami]

This song makes me cry, too. It transports hopelessness directly into my heart.

[@TommieRohr]

LORN clearly deserves more love

[@AnthonyBottari]

definitely I'm hooked on his music

[@anula2620]

and also Dolor

[@liamhunter8005]

Tomyroquai where did you get the picture for your profile pic?

[@TommieRohr]

this pic is from an OBEY poster I took in 2012 from a pic on Shepard Fairey Facebook page I think. If u got an email or something, i can send it to you. otherwise search on google with the name that I gave you, and you should find your happiness ;) sorry for the english, i'm french haha

[@Prncssmn7]

It's the Peace Goddess.

[@unemployicus]

This needs to be a Love + Death + Robots episode. Or a movie.

[@BlueGuise9]

Yes!

[@hydrohomiee]

Hell yeah buddy

[@tyfeelis177]

Right on the money

[@mr.anemoia924]

Is that show any good?

[@prometheus8587]

@@mr.anemoia924 love death robots is quite graphic, but if u dont mind that it is really good

[@andreir698]

I come back here every once in a while. can`t believe it`s been 7 years.. probably will keep doing so until my memory fades. a good life to everybody !

[@Kill4kush20]

*this, this is what having really good sound quality headphones is for* ....pure perfection

[@anameyoucantremember]

1:48 She tries to touch herself, but the cable pulls her hand. Lovely detail. She gets no pleasure. This is not a good experience. It's only death.

[@murrkimbai]

you should check out my art- the short arms and pudgy body explain perfectly where human evolution is going- especially for the non-elites

[@traceyjacobsen8544]

P. Spit ok?

[@houseatreides7331]

I actually took it a different way. Her entire nervous system is being digitized and failing in the real space. Her body is arcing due to the sensation of her nerves registering in her real brain for the last time. The hand gesture it to give it a slightly dirty visual to shift the tone to indicate this is something she chose for herself. Something she is willingly doing to herself; as its a form of ego masturbation to become eternal, no?

[@Etherslide]

I’m not sure that it was a moment of trying to touch herself in a pleasurable way. From my understanding, which could be entirely wrong of course, but she could be trying to feel ANYTHING AT ALL while her nervous system is, frankly, disintegrating.

[@houseatreides7331]

@@Etherslide Yeah I can see this aswell. Feels like the last grasp of a dieing being

[@ericperu1542]

Something I find terrifying: Dying and realizing I should have payed a few bucks more for the commercial free version of the afterlife.

[@ayabimou]

Eric Peru ù

[@ayabimou]

Ūģýű

[@dragonislav984]

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[@ericperu1542]

Gah! Can't I have anything original? Either way its just as terrifying as I imagined.

[@TheGarbageMann]

SMH MY HEAD

[@hermannrudas]

IDK how many times I will replay this clip. This is one of the best animations that I've seen in my entire life

[@DestinyDonald-vc3cm]

I guess I just want somewhere to share my story. When I was 19 I took shrooms, and it was like I was turned inside out. As a child, I was very extroverted and loved being around people. And after the shrooms, I felt disconnected from everyone and everything around me. I just wanted to alone. I am learning to feel happiness from within myself, not running from myself. It's been a LONG and PAINFUL process but once it's healed, it's healed and beautiful.

[@Mirable-ps6sb]

0:13 Its like that...people just stress me tf out.

[@JuanMadeline]

​@@Mirable-ps6sbone time i did shrooms (my first n only time but i had done acid before) and i started to notice how badly my friends treated me and i saw how we interracted with each other more clearly, and it really opened my eyes.

[@JerryKson]

​@@JuanMadelineI can relate to that. It definitely was the beginning of the end for me too. But the ending of something less real, so I'm ok with it. Just took a lot of adjusting and I can't bring others with me like I tried to at first. 0:06

[@StellaJenifer-bw3lo]

​@@JuanMadelineI've been looking to get my hands on shrooms since growing isn't an option for me . Any one knows where I can source? 0:07

[@JosephRichard-zo6wf]

​@@StellaJenifer-bw3loYes he's Dr.johnsonshroom

[@pandailluminati1734]

Damn.. listening to this laying in bed at 2 am while questioning yourself about everything. Remembering the people you missed, the one you loved, your place among the stars, your choices, and everything else that make yourself who you are. It's heartwarming to see that many people in the same kind of mindset. Thanks Lorn you truly deserve to be called "an artist".

[@yoloyogurt7678]

Ive met very few people that listen to music late at night, i can conclude we are a different breed.

[@_luftwaffel_]

@@yoloyogurt7678 greetings to you both. comforting to see like-minds out there.

[@earllang6809]

I agree with this assertion 🔥❤️👊🏻

[@TheSloganOfficial]

It's 4 AM and wondering if my soul goes to another dimension after death... I saw this video when it came out.. It's been a long time.. Time is the 4th dimension....

[@leonardosantillan2910]

Ahhhh

[@meattoboggan6424]

Sometimes I feel sad that my friends dont 'get' Lorn. But seeing a comment section of people who feel the same as I do makes me happy beyond words.

[@brokenslinky9992]

Eh not alone bud

[@robluxipiech4033]

@@brokenslinky9992 I hear ya and he's not and I'm glad other ppl say so too made me feel better reading what he said

[@alZiiHardstylez]

Yeah, I have a hard time with highly interpretive work. Don't think any less of your friends because of it. It's overtly self perspective, I don't think the intention of the work was meant to lead you feeling the same as everyone else in the comment section.

[@sayros2686]

я тоже с тобой брат()

[@wxkx4111]

Love you, You get it.

[@benkollasch5386]

cyberpunk Mulan orders nachos and dies

[@MicahDaJohn]

This actually might be one of the best music videos I've ever seen. It is incredible.

[@invrtd9409]

I am sure that Lorn makes that kind of music that you'll hear right before death

[@donnyarmstrong9559]

Its funny you should say that, this looks like what you might expect in the "Home" scene from Soylent Green where you went to die peacefully. Or maybe the "Carousel" part of Logan's Run... Both of those movie scenes were running in my head while watching this.

[@kimf86]

well u die listening to this so ur sorta rght. veeery strange "music"

[@knackeredtom1620]

well if youre listening to “Ghosst” right before death you must be a badass assassin or sum

[@MrsCrowley3]

Anvil: *starts playing* Credits: *appear in the sky* Me: Ah, that's it then. I'm ready.

[@damonnugent1993]

@@donnyarmstrong9559 I watched that with my mother. Creepy, especially with the changes the world is experiencing, and the fact it took place in 2022. This song does indeed feel a lot like some kind of futuristic euthanasia, or even more weirder, a human sacrificing themselves to the transhuman altar of AI.

[@571Frederik]

Dark, but enlightening at the same time

[@iannordin5250]

I don't really see how it's dark.

[@kecola]

+Ian Nordin Well she's committing suicide by plugging into anvil which is mandatory because of the world being overpopulated. It's a social media network for the dead. I'd say that's pretty dark.

[@iannordin5250]

well I mean she's not really dying if she's still conscious in the virtual world as is implied

[@kecola]

Ian Nordin Being stuck in a social media network for eternity seems like hell to me but that's just my opinion.

[@garethvers1384]

Ian Nordin but is it really her though? Say I make an exact copy of your brain and copy all your thoughts and memories to it too. Is that second brain you too? Can a virtual transfer of biological consciousness be said to really be the original individual?

[@mad7medieval7]

A video game with this graphic style would be INSANE. Especially with the game mouse coming out. Whoever edited this is a god among men, with a vision!

[@user-uu7xl6vc8h]

Just discovered this after Acid Rain I can’t get enough of the unsettling feeling I get when I listen to it

[@armen0414]

And i discovered Acid Rain after this one :-)

[@jakebrodowski9]

Another awesome song. Have you guys ever heard DyE. That is another artist that reminds me of Lorn Mixed with M83.

[@user-uu7xl6vc8h]

@@jakebrodowski9 no I’ve not hear of DyE - but I like M83 so I’ll look up DyE Thanks for he recommendation

[@jakebrodowski9]

@@user-uu7xl6vc8h Fantasy or Hole in Ocean are my favorite songs. They have really crazy music videos. Highly recommend them.

[@SariennMusic73]

​@@armen0414I found acid rain and it was the unofficial vid of the dead dancing cheerleaders and the driver (also cheerleader) who didn't want to let go & accept death). Impacted me deeply. Impacted me so much, that I have seen it so much - and wrote the most liked comment pointing out all the small things that many miss yet tell the story in a deeper way. 😅

[@herbivore15]

This raises interesting questions on what it means to be human. It's my dream to have my mind uploaded into simulated reality so I can be whoever and whatever I want, relive my memories and do the impossible without limitations. Do all of those things lose value simply because they are virtual? Is the virtual world not also real? What does it even mean to be human? Is it our consciousness that makes us human or our physical bodies?

[@SeptemusHeap]

When you can have everything to the extent of your imagination, what is the definition of value?

[@eddiemoyers5729]

+Lazaro Vallejo shit man...

[@huckaf]

Awesome!

[@raziasrazias7761]

It has no value for the world because it doesn't change it (it's virtual). But for you it's up to decide.

[@SeptemusHeap]

Razias Razias What is it?

[@BalrogRoke]

This afterlife would be worse. Having to read all those messages of love from people you left behind, that you can't go back to. Then one day it just stops. Nobody mentions you. The wall goes dark. Forever.

[@markiss7620]

@@daftmi9hty327 if you arnt remembered, you never existed

[@gabegabriel9288]

@@daftmi9hty327 I believe we never truly "die". It doesn't matter if no one remembers you, your choices and their consequences will ripple throughout the system of the world, influence other people, who in turn influence others and so on. Your effect on the world only dies when the last consious being on this planet dies. Such is the interconnectedness of our world, even more so now given the internet.

[@anxiousscribe]

You're assuming you retain your emotions in the digital afterlife. Most likely it matters not. You would be a shell and your consciousness, data.

[@essetir1571]

Gabe Gabriel you know in a weird way that makes me happy

[@Castrum28]

How can you assume something you haven't seen or experienced...

[@lunecker]

Lorn songs feel weird at first listen but still make you want to go back to them and the more you listen the more you start to enjoy them.

[@lunecker]

update: at first i was thinking "nope its not even close to being as good as acid rain, idk kinda mid" and just skipped it then whenever i saw it somewhere i clicked it but i still didnt really think its good, just okay but now i am totally obsessed and im listening to this on a loop since hours. holy shit. this is so fkn good.

[@a.i.a3949]

Shaggy this isn't weed...

[@dogboy2.08]

This is extremism!

[@a.i.a3949]

@@dogboy2.08 fucking Transhumanists ey? Nah, anarcho primitivism is the way to go.

[@razacosmicapilled]

A.i.A nah anarcho capitalism is the way to go

[@a.i.a3949]

@@razacosmicapilled nah bro, anarcho capitalism but within a totalitarian regime which has one purpose, culling the 1% each year and redistributing the wealth.

[@tallb]

Shaggy this isn't porn either...

[@MermaidMelissaPage]

Artistic and dreamy... Close to real life.

[@raidermaxx2324]

especially since switzerland just legalized "suicide pods"

[@rodrigoarnaldodearaujo3147]

The NFTs in virtual reallity with meta verse, cripto currencies and the future of money crazy changes. Facebook thinking in implements yout project of meta verse, the world can change in a no longer future.

[@raidermaxx2324]

@@rodrigoarnaldodearaujo3147 sounds like a bunch of snake oil nd bullshit to me. but thanks for the explanation

[@rodrigoarnaldodearaujo3147]

​@@raidermaxx2324 I m sorry i dont understand this expression, snake oil i am Braziliam with bad English, but tryng communicate to natives. Haha this animation doing me thinking about this new technologies as be come in society.

[@raidermaxx2324]

@@rodrigoarnaldodearaujo3147 snake oil salesman is vendedor who sells people something like "medicine to cure their cancer" but in reality its just oil from a snake.. lol. We call Trump a snake oil salesman, here in america, because he tricked half the country into buying some crap. Bolsenero is a snake oil salesman, selling your country a bunch of lies.. See, in the wild wild west, traveling salesmen use to travel in a wagon from town to town, selling "cures" and " remedies"- but thats where ut comes from.. if you ever played Red Dead Redemption, the old guy in the wagon that was selling fake medicine to the townpeople, was called a "snake oil salesman" .. 200 years ago.. so its very old slang :) i dont know the words in portugese, only spanish, but es un hombre quien vende basura por medicina. sorry i know that you speak portugese and not spanish but its the best i can do. Anyways the NFT's sound like a scam to me.

[@NibNumbly]

Beautiful style and imagery. Whoever directed this needs to do bigger things.

[@shaco8092]

"sometimes it's difficult even for me to understand what I've become, and harder still to remember what I once was"

[@beyondvger3682]

Can you tell me who this quote is by? Please. Thanks.

[@shaco8092]

@@beyondvger3682 in a episode of the series: Love, death and Robots, Zima Blue said that

[@beyondvger3682]

@@shaco8092 Thanks so much! I love it 💙

[@Raptor3400]

Dark and disturbing, yet beautiful and strangely comforting. I will never forget this video.

[@walkonwater4411]

I will remember him on the day of my death!

[@brenj]

They plagiarized the video from the original artist

[@alfredomoroalvarez4159]

You did for sure

[@stix147]

Still remembering it?

[@antfailsatgaming2286]

I feel the same way

[@ahobimo732]

I love the sequence of all the doors opening.

[@pascal590]

One of the most intricate, beautiful animations I've ever seen.

[@user-go1nw5ir6k]

it's like all doors are open now

[@simonisenberg4516]

Face explosion is my favorite scene.

[@pascal590]

Simon Isenberg Iconic moment as well.

[@cherrymabet]

Mark Osmond ,

[@SarahSakura]

Gives me goosebumps, even after 5 years, because it feels like it could become our reality one day.

[@technestudio]

It already is

[@Gutssssss666]

@@technestudio already is but we’ll be long dead before it becomes exactly like the video lol

[@moniqueroman7704]

You can literally move to Canada and sign up to have this happen to you

[@henripentant1120]

It is becoming reality today and some peoples’ ambition for tomorrow

[@henripentant1120]

@@Gutssssss666 don’t worry, they’ll wake you up

[@The_Unholy_Roman_Empire]

You know the clip is fire when you don't if it's supposed to accompany the music or the opposite

[@eqcicil]

I’m a linguist and I took the time to frame by frame the messages scrolling. Here’s what I can gather: Ana is uploading here consciousness to a system that lets you select from different “digital planes of existence”. Ana chose one called Anvil. In Anvil the scrolling text appears to be messages from the other consciousnesses that populate it. Deconstructing the text it appears to be a sort of neo-English combined with evolved emoji speak. The messages are all the the effect of “Welcome to Anvil” “Greeting Ana with love” People telling her their names I think there may also be a welcoming party planned. Best video ever!

[@shanedog007]

I also was born a linguist, (ironic right I'm human) what she was saying is DON'T DO IT IT IS A TRAP, IT IS DEATH. welcoming party? whos side are you on cyborg!

[@j897j]

That's kinda cool that you can gather that from some background detail

[@tomasmieger6826]

@@j897j - Maybe few the few seconds after 01:23, and after 02:57 to the end of the video. But I really do not know how to decode the scripture on the screen. I suppose even crypto-specialists from the NSA would have a problem to do so. But maybe "Hemingway Coppertop22" will give us a hint.

[@tomasmieger6826]

@@j897j - After exacter viewing I saw the relevant sequences at 02:57 and following seconds.

[@tomasmieger6826]

@@shanedog007 - Wouldnt you like being a cyborg.

[@A-Duck]

I need this song tattooed in my ears

[@everness4616]

Oh my God yes 😥

[@cslavov]

Its not a song.

[@asuka813]

Well, you can now tattoo sound waves on your body at least. Pretty sure you need a phone to scan it.

[@jackneals5585]

sounds painful

[@_Mr.Black_]

Sometimes i hate the KZbin algorithm. But im grateful this popped up years ago. Its amazing

[@Vicious-Spiral]

One of the best songs ever! Amongst the great! ❤

[@nightmaresand808s]

LORN is life

[@thatsgoodshitjon246]

hey i seen u

[@ItsGoodToHangPirates]

Oh wow, went from your channel to this video. And you're damn right.

[@RyanCelsiusMusic]

LORN is love

[@TBone2809]

Ty

[@luthervangolde2058]

LORN is void.

[@leksasdf]

Spent half an hour in full screen mode screenshotting wallpapers, time well spent.

[@rednull862]

Please provide a link to your Google Docs with these photo's :) :) :)

[@AVGyerra22]

Chad Finzel lmao try one yourself.

[@murce2524]

yeah bruh i need those wallpapers

[@BraidenRobson]

Please upload your screenshots

[@pieceofshirt1]

Sent 11 months ago :(

[@litleonepunk]

The frequency and vibrations of this song relaxes my body and regulates my nervous system 😌

[@UndercoverNormie]

Forgot about this. I remember when it was uploaded and blew my fucking mind.

[@olaveiras]

The deception: when you enter the eternal server, you discover it's an online game pay-to-win

[@MerolLord]

well... real life is pretty much pay-to-win so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@lxiaoqi6275]

sounds like life hmmmmmm

[@JoshuaRWorkman]

So real life, just in digital form with a social media feed visible from all the places you can go. Got it.

[@traceyjacobsen8544]

Olaf O. "F***"

[@traceyjacobsen8544]

Nelyntu unless you cheat by robbing the in game banks I mean reality banks

[@nolanday4514]

Seriously sad tune. Listen to the low-end bass of this on some decent headphones while walking through a park at night. It's haunting.

[@mina8687]

Silent Solar some proper hashish at night among the trees and bushes. Sit down somewhere, preferably at the back of some old outhouse, just staring, staring at the night.

[@thebluntandonly]

@@mina8687 I do just that but from my garage I stare at my backyard as I get a good buzz. Lorn's music is perfect out of body type music. The way he composes his tracks is absolute art :)

[@rogerbenicio6506]

doomer detected

[@wun__]

gonna try

[@petarded8529]

Sennheiser HD600 with a Creek OBH-11 SE amp. I do my best to pour that liquid audio honey into those less fortunate ear holes. This song deserves the best 💁‍♂️

[@Kochie11]

This song feels.. beyond life. Like a grand scheme view on everything. Behind mortal comprehension. Like if something that saw into multiple universes had a sound.

[@valeriaromero8736]

Wow you couldn't described it bettter!!!!!

[@xxDiiamondisHerexx]

I agree completely 🥹🥹🥹😍🥰♥️♥️

[@user-ml1er8rw1i]

The best and most honest thing I have seen in 12 years of what I have seen, I am delighted!

[@jakobmorrissette4538]

I work in Lorn's hometown. Sadly, many people here aren't aware of him as he's based out of Milwaukee.

[@murrkimbai]

does Lorn hate asian chicks? Is he a racist?

[@cezarstefanseghjucan]

@@murrkimbai 'He may not, but I do, wholeheartedly.' What kind of question is that, are you high on some cheap stuff or how does your mind work to spawn such thought?!

[@schandlicher-schubertverif9478]

murrkimbai Bro u more high AF than the weeknd or what

[@sarahfoley332]

So is Atmosphere....same

[@redMrCrayon]

I wonder if he knows Redlettermedia

[@jaacobb123]

2000: Technology is amazing 2020: Technology is a part of us 2040: We are Technology 2060: I am Technology

[@lorennieleon9390]

Holy shit

[@Blibluu]

holy shittoo

[@genericusername1243]

3000 : we are "THEY"

[@satvadarshanam8818]

@@genericusername1243 oh no...😱😢😷

[@xrayban2]

You are ready to read "This Alien Shore" - C.S. Friedman.

[@TTV_UNIFIED_8]

🌀🐒♾🍄🌀 “Make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick.” ― Terence McKenna 🌀🐒♾🍄🌀

[@brianjohnstone2922]

This tune is like a core memory at this point. One of my favourite tunes of this genre x. 10/10 track.

[@zaquszacz]

LORN clearly deserves more attention, but I don't want them to become too famous, I'm such a terrible person

[@donn372]

😂

[@robbobbrah8953]

Yeah bro musics 'totally' cooler when no one else knows about it. That way i can totally flex dick while measuring it with my checkered and studded belt with metrics on it when asking people if they've ever heard of him.

[@domesticV1190XxOo]

really are. I don't get where you guys get off hoping that a group you enjoy don't garner major success just so you can be seen as liking non mainstream music. I just don't get that mindset. If they change, they change.

[@jenkkko]

That's the point though, when artists/groups become "mainstream" they change. Their music changes to appeal for their wider fanbase and as a result they tend to produce (worse) music. Also, LORN is just one guy so you're a terrible person for not knowing that.

[@robinphilbrick425]

Alex Jenkinson that's a great point dude, saw that first hand with The Weeknd. First four albums? Fucking magic, the rest has gone to garbage to appeal to wider audiences.

[@meul1979]

This animation was fascinating, is emotionally controversial ... the transcendence of the human consent to the virtual realization. I love it!!!... visual Art!!!

[@meul1979]

music + visual = Art

[@ahhh6328]

meul1979 you should watch concorde sons, its by the same animator

[@meul1979]

+ah hh .... I really appreciate your comment .... immediately I look for more videos and as we say here in my country Costa Rica "Pura Vida". !!

[@user-mw2eh9is3v]

meul1979 Do you think this will be possible in the future? I really hope so. it seems like it. I mean we have actual robots that act and move and do things like people, we have droids that deliver things, we have phones that can transform into what it's not etc.

[@thegoodkidboy7726]

Nice word salad. I tilt my trilby to you, good sir.

[@cretchboc]

This animation is literally a masterpiece not kidding. I can’t even comprehend what I just watched .

[@emselurniak]

Got here from a recommendation on a 40k video... the Emperor has blessed me this day.

[@Deniz-wx8bl]

Can we appreciate how amazing the art style and overall video looks AND how it fits with the music so perfectly

[@daisyduck8593]

It is a stunning combination !

[@426hemiscamp]

Lorn has done it again helping me reach into the dark inter-workings of my brain and heart.

[@gwen878]

cant do it on your own?

[@Ren95]

Can't do it without insulting someone else?

[@arfarfarf256]

Every couple years I gotta come back here. Glad to see new comments and new people discovering this.

[@christianmaas8934]

Rediscovered this after 5 years of losing it in my Playlist. Searched "animation electronic music video woman uploaded to afterlife overpopulation" and finally found it. The low hum gave me massive goosebumps just like the 1st time i heard it. It is now fully entrenched in my study Playlist. Sometimes on repeat.

[@KiwiFox3]

Saaaaaaame bro! Typed in "Girl plugs in to machine animation"

[@razt9776]

Just search "Lorn" wtf lol

[@christianmaas8934]

@@razt9776 wow what a great idea, except I didn't know the name, thats the whole point of my comment

[@Defirence]

Same! About 4 years for me, some things* we think are lost to Entropy and Time always find their way back to us.

[@razt9776]

@@christianmaas8934 And now you won't forget :)

[@realradix6163]

This track has a very strange effect on me. It pulls very deep strings of my inner world. It's so disturbing and relaxing in the same time. Listening to this is like to be on the edge between dream and awareness, like single moment separate me from discovering something incredible fabulous and unthinkable. Something that I forgot when I was born.

[@nickgold2012]

hint: this is the virtual reality, but the joke is, all of reality on every level is virtual by its very nature, a creation of consciousness. the ancient hindus had this shit all figured out many thousands of years ago btw.

[@realradix6163]

​@@nickgold2012 Yeah that's right. And modern science only prove this idea. Quantum physics, string theory, inflation theory and others achievements. We, our consciousness and all endless number of Universes are just spontaneous oscillations of space. We and all Universe only "dream" ourself at the edge of reality.

[@concernedcitizen6428]

Woah, I see what you mean. This video/song makes me sad and alone, yet somewhat glad and appreciative. Just me?

[@cornyxxx16]

It's like magic

[@realradix6163]

​ Concerned Citizen, I think this soundtrack somehow resonates with limbic system so we affected by deep emotions beyond the words. Rare thing.

[@bryantaylor9115]

Thanks KZbin. I had lost this song from years ago and it just showed up in my recommended out of nowhere

[@B4NDllKOOT_]

They’re watching you.

[@jasonmclaren9425]

Same!!

[@mikek825]

This music video elevates the song so much for me.

[@Heather-kz7tn]

This song and video have always come back to my mind randomly throughout the last few years since I first listened/saw the video. Just amazing.

[@intoTheCosmos_]

A visual and audio masterpiece , watching this while coming down from a lsd trip, this melted my brain, its a un-describable experience , this is pure ART

[@mdahsenmirza2536]

What happened in the video ? She went there to die ? To be uploded ?

[@gedankengut5185]

Same:)

[@Zystus]

Watching this while on acid would be one crazy trip.

[@SuperNeowiz]

and listening to psytrance, this video matches perfectly

[@ekeclout3941]

Why always with the acid? Shrooms are organic.

[@SuperNeowiz]

they are also poisonous

[@aqueell7820]

+Edgar Kiechle Yeah because acid is just as safe lol

[@BohemianConspiracy]

Yeah and seriously a deep trip not like when i've seen the fresh latest Empire of the Sun music video ... who is just not a serious trip... it's a light commercial trip... Lorn it is serious blue trip (i mean the music and all)

[@moxifloxi]

cyberpunk ending leak

[@Yarkoonian]

Mox is that you?

[@josephkaran1705]

MOX :D

[@Jane-vt9ve]

Blame

[@DesertPunks]

Mox has good taste

[@landonr.5841]

Mox ಠ ᴥ ಠ why are you everywhere

[@CodasTalon5013]

There are other worlds than these. Thank you for the amazing video! That was one of the most incredible things I have witnessed as of late.

[@stickliar5934]

Beautiful. Exactly my kind of atmosphere and ambience

[@whatabeautifulduwang9603]

This gives me Ghost In The Shell vibes.

[@jackabercrombie8363]

What A beautiful DUWANG *chew* probably because it took inspiration from it read the description

[@whatabeautifulduwang9603]

Well...that settles it.

[@starrychloe]

I got a Birdy Nam Nam - Parachute Ending vibe.

[@AngelVocal]

Read the description.

[@whatabeautifulduwang9603]

Reading the description is for squares.

[@saikanji9570]

Me, before reading the description: "Damn this is some cyberpunk erotica fantasy and I'm here for it." Me, after reading the description: "Why am I crying?"

[@polstuff8959]

Lol kinda same here

[@blackdragon796]

We ain't disappointed aren't we?😹

[@theopowell8815]

ngl I cannot watch this vid without getting kinda depressed

[@DonjiKong]

I want a full movie of this, the world they created looks so cool!

[@magmilion4175]

utterly depressing, but musically and visually stunning; best music video I have seen so far in 2021

[@odielag]

I wish I had not read this comment because I didn't see this as depressing.

[@LetsConquerTheUniverseTogether]

Perhaps I'm just weird, but the concept of transhumanism instills in me a sense of hope.

[@aer9313]

It's a dark and light sound...and doomish...it puts me in focus mode able to get stuff done.

[@aer9313]

@@odielag no...don't say that...I don't feel it to sound depressing ...to me it's light and dark with a doomish visual...but it makes me concetrate. You see it the way I do.

[@DigitalForerunners]

you should write reviews

[@bythegraceofadoni]

This music makes me feel like ive discovered music for the first time in my life.

[@caibra88]

This tells such an incredible story. Each time I come back it just takes my breath away

[@civilbeard]

I'm not even high and this just totally blew my mind

[@parkerhughes434]

I can't stop listening.

[@miginmigin92]

me to 😂😂😂...and am scared of it 😂😂😂😂

[@sbek1386]

PinWin Productions man if u love this song dont listen it too many times, because after that u gonna hate it

[@ARINOXMUSIC]

@@sbek1386 well I still love it surprisingly

[@geluix69]

This video reminds of a scifi manga rendition of the matrix and the 5th element.

[@arthultimcave3453]

Ghost in the Shell ?

[@geluix69]

yes also, very nice.

[@SogMosee]

body/mind duality?

[@pavelverner]

I also can see Coruscant from Star Wars... :3

[@axeljubineau9536]

it's more like eXistenZ :)

[@BLVCKSCORP]

Nostalgia is the warmest type of melancholy and this song embraces it so I can swim in it.

[@mrg4388]

Magnificent. Beautiful. Breathtaking. Intricate and sophisticated, subtle and served with love, obviously. I come back to this video often, it's important to me, as the music also is. Thank you. :)

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

I was wondering. What if a program accessing your brain could release you into a malleable, dreamy virtual world of your choosing, while at the same time making you forget about your real life, and even your existence as a physical entity. Where you just become a bodiless being, totally free of pain and mental suffering, and perhaps filled with sensuality. It would be like a powerful escapist drug.

[@matiki0211]

That would be amazing

[@xlightable]

John Smith We do exactly that here although in a different way but the game got a virus hack.

[@oktopuss2006]

So kinda like a really controllable dmt, or a machine induced REM sleep?

[@vc1163]

You don't need a program. Research "4 Noble Truths" and the Eightfold Path. The cessation of suffering in all forms comes from within.

[@lowqualityshitposts8860]

Imagine a sadistic computer virus

[@salty3828]

A track that seems to go nowhere but takes you everywhere you need to go

[@DanS1]

This is an absolute masterpiece

[@BreachSheff]

This is my go-to when feeling anxious, as it manages to re-balance me and allow me to find a level head once again. Music like this can work miracles.

[@robertzhao7194]

She died at the age of 27 too...

[@negriyoxx]

???

[@negriyoxx]

nothing, already got it

[@antonyvenneri6264]

😀😀😀kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIXIhmWQjaeamNE

[@Jimbo386000]

That's my age...

[@daisyduck8593]

"died"

[@chuck2501]

Gives me the whole Soylent Green vibe, creepy and sad. (2 hours later) EDIT: The more I watch this, the more terrifying it is. (4 Hours later): This is truly horrifying, this is about a woman using a suicide machine. We watch her consciousness get disassembled (as she dies) and her digital copy waking up. Finding itself in the strange ruins of a social media site. Whilst that’s going on the body has been disposed of (fire, liquefaction?) and placed in to a funeral urn! She’s dead and we had a front row seat!

[@Evilkwiet]

but she is so young only 27

[@chuck2501]

well, Logans run / soylent green. In soylent green the idea was also to reduce the population.

[@mmike855]

Exactly what I felt watching the video. Great observation.

[@kecola]

Yeah Anvil is pretty much a social media site for the dead. It's such a creepy and haunting image. I can't help but wonder if the people are picked randomly or do all of them have to plug into anvil at the age of 27?

[@skycat1820]

I'm glad someone else was as freaked out by this as I was lol.

[@deneox1631]

J'ai découvert cette musique il y a peu et elle me fait ressentir beaucoup d'émotions. De la nostalgie mais elle me donne aussi du courage pour continuer à aller de l'avant. Je trouve le clip soigné dans son style minimaliste et il me parle beaucoup. Juste incroyable!

[@richsilvestri7704]

Always, come back to this one from time to time, still gets me 27 years and life is over. Makes you look at your own life and think, damn did I do enough, was my life full, fulfilling, and did I leave any kind of legacy? Crazy how a song by Lorn was transformed by the Geriko crew into this short anime odyssey. I'm sure I'll be hitting play on this for years to come!

[@avijeetbhowal9649]

It makes me think of how dangerous the future will be.

[@yasmine778]

That dangerous future just started ...

[@gewonejongen3956]

Makes me think of how beautiful it can be!

[@nadahaitham8388]

Then let's end it

[@avijeetbhowal9649]

@@nadahaitham8388 how?

[@nadahaitham8388]

@@avijeetbhowal9649 We can kill all humans including you and me but that's a murder So maybe we can kill scientists and ppl enterested in technology but still a murder. So the third solution is just stop developing our technology and live by ourselves for just once We won't die without it anyway

[@mikelippenkrans5297]

Listening to this song with heavy bass headphones is divine

[@maciekb7555]

I feel the same on my stereo.

[@Casper5]

Lorn def should have made the bass more prominent!

[@SarahSakura]

Amen

[@anoniemp238]

@@Casper5 You need a better subwoofer then. Or a new pair of ears...

[@Casper5]

@@anoniemp238 My sub is good and my ears are working fine. It's true there is bass in this but just not the amount I hoped for.

[@stellar8689]

Wow, this song and its accompanying music video are an absolute masterpiece! The ethereal and atmospheric soundscape created by Lorn draws you in from the very first note. It's incredible how the haunting melodies and mesmerizing visuals blend together to create an immersive experience.

[@wack...]

comments like this make me hate the comments section, this must be performative for you

[@stellar8689]

?@@wack...

[@inkyeye8327]

I lost this track when my laptop broke. And years later it came back to me in recommendations. Glad to hear you again.