Heaven Pierce Her - Do Robots Dream of Eternal Sleep? (ULTRAKILL 7-2 Theme #1)

[siiashr]

it really went from "Welcome to aperature science!" to "THE WORLD WILL END IN 24 HOURS."

[amoreukita]

what a great introduction to france 💯😇🙏🙏🗼

[spunklord]

finding out that guttermen are powered by prisoners of war sealed inside a casket and forcibly kept on the brink of death made the big blundering oafs far more horrifying than i expected them to be

[Sekibankiii]

"Hey V1, do robots dream of eternal sleep?"
"Mhhh...."
"Bro what you doin' you're not the thinker"

[ultrafun]

The name of this song is dedicated to Guttermen. Guttermen themselves don't dream, but the humans inside them, who are constantly suffering being stuffed inside metal coffins, unable to move, kept alive by minimal life support, with metal pipes piercing their bodies, they probably dream only about eternal sleep and the only thing they want is to die.

Update: guttermen do, in fact, dream of eternal sleep. Their lore got even darker

[Mae_is_gae]

God the distant gunshots and explosions at the end of this one are just kinda haunting. 7-2 uses the nightmarish spectacle of war to *incredible* effect.

[Kris-cepo]

“hmmmm yes let’s make gutterman lore even more fucked up and tragic”

[lavastage]

I deeply appreciate how, despite ULTRAKILL's more tongue in cheek tone, you didn't shy away from the tragedy of layer 7 in your music. Rather than sweep it under the rug you kept an excellent balance between maintaining ULTRAKILL's established tone and acknowledging just how horrible this all is.

[Zachabruh]

This layer was actually horrifying. Not only because of the jump scares but the themes and lore of the final war was horrible to learn about. Guttermen especially have a horrific story

[LoserLilith]

Do robots dream of eternal sleep? When they fight, do they consider the possibility of death? Do they fear it? Were they programmed not to do so, or did they possibly even develop the awareness of their mortality themselves? 2-S implies V1 is aware of it. Are other machines? If so, why do they still fight? Is it truly the only way for them to survive? Or is it simply the only thing they've ever known?

Needless to say I love this song.

[Dastankbeets]

I like the fake positive feel of it all… like a twisted celebration of the beginning of the final war

[elishatan]

Who is here after the update? The Gutterman Poem in the coffin... The fact that we encountered a Gutterman without a coffin afterwards...

[grimendstone]

Obvious reference to the excellent Toby fox line: “do robots dream of electric sex?”

[defrance]

"After he saw God he felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he ever had before in his life. Because one day it came over him, he began to realize, that he was never going to see God again; he was going to live out his whole remaining life, decades, maybe fifty years, and see nothing but what he had always seen. What we see. He was worse off than if he hadn't seen God."

My favorite PKD quote. Have fun and you did a great job on the music.

[ps_]

This is one of my favorite songs from the Violence layer, incredibly ambient. Perfect for this level's intro.

[adamevaskevich]

The Big Gutter Daddy is such a good enemy, since I have the knuckleblaster equipped for DPS and if I ever needed to launch a sentry at no stamina, but now there is an enemy that feels like it needs the knuckleblaster, even though you can get past them without it.

[gioeleserra]

The final war lasted about 200 years.

The Guttermen were created during the first stages.

Meaning that the prisoners have been in excruciating pain for almost two centuries, maybe more if we count the great peace.

This is simply horrifying.

[mrshouty]

Glad to see another reference to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", my favorite Vocaloid album is also called "Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Birds?" (With my favorite song, named "Our 16bit warZ", which is kinda fitting too), very recommended.

[ultrafun]

"Do robots dream of eternal sleep?"

No, but their batteries do

Update: they do, in fact, dream of eternal sleep. Their lore got even darker

[orangec]

Even though this only plays for a very short time, I really like it. I hope more tracks appear in the last two layers that sound like this.