Portal - The Pit Song

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'The Pit Song' is an original Portal song. A rough draft of this song was originally created 3 years ago for the Portal Youtube series 'The Underground'.
It was a darker-themed Machinima and one of the episodes would feature 'The Pit'; where bots are tortured, destroyed, reappropriated, or just left to rot. All lovely fun for the whole family! I was to expand on it for a future episode. The series unfortunately went into indefinite hiatus, so the song was never finished...until now!

3 years later and I finally got around to remaking it using what I've learned over the years. A lot of you wanted this finished, including myself, so I hope you enjoy it! It was a lot of fun to make something darker and creepier. =D

This took about a month of dedicated work; which was initially slowed down a lot because I've had a lot of other large projects to work on these past few months. Got a lot more stuff coming in the coming weeks / months though. ;)

The old version (made 3 years ago):

VFX Breakdowns:

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My other Portal songs you may enjoy!

This Is Aperture

If I Were A Core

The Wheatley Song

Defective:

Making Science

GLaDOS Is To Blame

Dumb Ways To Die

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Lyrics:

Robot #22: He failed the turret peer-review.
Robot #24: He died before he hit the floor.
Robot #25: He never made it out alive.
And Robot #29: Died on the assembly-line.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath...
This isn't life, it's living death!
But not to fear, we're most humane...
You'll never be yourself again!

Robot #44: He couldn't take it any more.
Robot #46: The mechanic simply couldn't fix.
Robot #48: He perished from a gruesome fate.
And Robot #49: Simply ran right out of time.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath...
This isn't life, it's living death!
But not to fear, we're most humane...
You'll never be yourself again...

Robot #62: All he ever saw was blue.
Robot #63: Had an invalid serial-key.
Robot #65: He suffered a corrupted drive.
And Robot #67: Found his way into Android Heaven.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath...
This isn't life, it's living death!
But not to fear, we're most humane...
You'll never be yourself again...

These defective droids
All they know
Is how it feels
To be alone!
Beyond repair
They sit and rust
Broken down
Collecting dust!

They never had the chance to prove
What it is they were
Built to do!
Doomed to fail;
The final nail
In the coffin,
Of eternal jail!

You want to live? Don't hold your breath...
This isn't life, it's living death!
But not to fear, we're most humane...
You'll never be yourself again!
You'll never be yourself again!
You'll never be yourself again...

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Animation | Vocals | Music | Lyrics | Editing
Harry Callaghan

Custom Turret / Core Rigs
August 'Rantis' Loolam

Certain Assets from the Portal Stories: Mel mod.

Software Used:
Animation - Source Filmmaker
Editing - Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 , Adobe After Effects CS6 , Adobe Photoshop CS6
Music - Reason 8

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[snap]

this is based on some other song but I can`t remember which....anyone?

[michaelgleghorn]

This actually shows just how dark the Portal games are. You play in essentially an abandoned facility with some maniac robots that want to kill you and seemingly endless tests.

[standaman]

Aperture robot : shuts eye for 10 sec

Aperture : well he’s dead

[SrPelo]

I've been waiting 12 years for this song! I loved the first one so much and this one is amazing!!! Thank you so much Harry!! Even tho I am watching it 9 years later!

[noahhamilton]

The sheer mystery around "he never made it out alive" makes it the most sinister line in the song.

[guyshamir]

so basically, if you want to live be a number that doesnt rhyme

[theminecraftbro]

"If you want to live don't hold your breath"

*my god how come I didn't think of that*

[electrobob]

I definitely believe that #62 was a Paradox core.
Designed to speak a paradox in the event of her turning against the humans, sadly it wasn't immune to them either.

[lunareko]

All of the lines in this song are sad, but the one that goes "Robot #65, He suffered a corrupted drive." Especially with the other robot, trying to get his ally back.

[RRW]

This is one of the most catchy yet depressing songs I've ever heard.

[SecondaryStorm]

"You want to live, Dont hold your breath"


Neurotoxin: My time has come

[Joezone]

When you realize GLaDOS made the coop bots to look like chell and wheatly so she can kill them through testing forever. Think about it, one is litterally a blue sphere with legs, wheatly is a blue sphere, the other is tall and lengthy like a human.

[loganberry]

This song still slaps even 7 years after its release

[TimoIvvie]

“Found his way to Android heaven”
Me : He looks so excited.
Wait he just died...
Oh.

[Zr-gbqd]

This probably has to be the most darkest portal SFM I've ever seen to be honest

[neigeozturk]

The chorus getting louder at "found his way to Android Heaven" really sends shivers down my spine

[mewenger]

I'm not one to usually get scared by games or horrors, but that voice... Jesus christ, Harry can make me Sad, Scared and Laugh. Amazing work.

[Kids_Scissors]

I just realized that the bots believe in places like Heaven and Hell, they have a god, they built a religion. Sentience has reached the point of philosophy and belief in deities. That is simply a mind-blowing thought.

[MrWhatdafuBOOM]

The fact that the personality core during the second refrain had a peace symbol for an eye which then got changed to a crosshair is pretty deep when you think about it.

[ihatehandlestheyareannoying]

I like how out of all the broken robots at 2:33, the old aperture turret isn't rusty. The oldest one out of them, has no rust.
2:56 justice for the rocket turret