LORN - ANVIL [Official Music Video] 

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

Still holds up, years later. Stunning visuals.

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.

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

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

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.”"

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

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

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

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

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. ❤

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

LORN clearly deserves more love

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.

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 !

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

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

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

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.

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.

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".

cyberpunk Mulan orders nachos and dies

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

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

Shaggy this isn't weed...

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

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!

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.

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

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

LORN is life

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.

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

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

Dark, but enlightening at the same time

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

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

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

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!

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

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

This music video elevates the song so much for me.

I love the sequence of all the doors opening.

I need this song tattooed in my ears

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.

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.

Artistic and dreamy... Close to real life.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

🌀🐒♾🍄🌀 “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 🌀🐒♾🍄🌀

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

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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All she did was choose the nachos :/

Whichever artist loves to design trapezoidal doors must have creamed their jeans when they were approached for this video.

This is an absolute masterpiece

This speaks to me

She died at the age of 27 too...

I will never get tired of these amazing sounds and equally terrifying graphics. One of the best! 😍

I love musical and visual art like this that opens the heart. This one achieved that perfectly. Tears with a smile 😊❤️🙏🏽

Space travel music ❤💫

Watching this while on acid would be one crazy trip.

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.

This reminds me so much of the old school Aeon Flux days, awesome video and beautiful music!

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.

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

This gives me Ghost In The Shell vibes.

There's no overpopulation, only overgreedness.

I'M STARTING TO THINK THIS IS A MASTERPIECE.

oh i get it, so shes sending her mind to the virtual world and at the same time killing herself?

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!

Animation with deep meaning. It surprises you in the end.

Beautiful. Exactly my kind of atmosphere and ambience

Mix the Matrix and Ghost In The Shell together and you'll have this.

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

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.

Rainy days, cold & dark atmosphere, and those mysterious things that life offers you. It's so satisfying and unexplained that make me so happy