ARCHSPIRE – Carrion Ladder (Official Music Video)

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Premiered Dec 9, 2025
"After nearly five years, ARCHSPIRE return with their latest album, TOO FAST TO DIE, their most extreme and technically precise record yet. Following the JUNO Award–winning Bleed the Future (2021), the band push beyond the limits of speed and precision once again, solidifying their place as one of the most relentless forces in modern metal." PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW: https://www.archspire.net 'TOO FAST TO DIE' Track List: 1. Liminal Cypher 2. Red Goliath 3. Carrion Ladder 4. Anomalous Descent 5. The Vessel 6. Limb of Leviticus 7. Deadbolt the Backward 8. Too Fast to Die Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Dave Otero Additional Engineering by Mike Low Cover Art by Shindy Reehal Album Layout & Design by Kevin Moore at Mindreader Release Coordination, Management, Hype Man Brett Bamberger Photography by Alex Morgan Imaging CARRION LADDER Lyrics Waiting on the platform in the living elevator Dead panning Head pounding Wading onto a plank without footing Dropping while the pace of the blade is increasing Unlocking a pounding centrifugal feeling turning whipping keeping me bolted while falling downward on a liquid locomotive tunneling into the ground If or when I’m taken by the limb would anyone come for me? Now that you’ve been lifted what is left to kill or care for? I get up spitting blood Hacking up my lung and liver blocking out internal pain so I can see her though a pane of liquid glass Every time I wait in line to board the ladder I get sicker On the conveyor of mass contagion I inhale a constant deadly wind of toxic human expulsion amid famine plague and dysentery Yet I never leave The crippled curling up in line band together in defence against the men whose hunger unabated escalated to cannibalism Cutting up the weak and dead Eating what they know will kill them No-one breaks the line to help Tainted meat will take them out and if I choose to fight I'll never see her Looking back is death Here one must give up their mind and moral binding Black out the culprit and never look up for what’s above with stab its hand into you Looking up is death Focus on nothing but getting inside the falling carrion ladder Finally making it out of the deadlock and into the barricade I behold the Carrion Ladder The heart of the cavern is swelling and beating It’s ominous arteries open injecting me deep into the carrion ladder If I were taken by the limb before you could you visit me? Could you bear the line? Would you even care to stay alive alone save for the image of me tearing up our only son? I’m waiting in a mine Melding with a non newtonian vertical propeller to beg or be a hunter Coming here watching your skin fill up like you were never real before the slaughter Inflated back to life to mimic recalling the feeling of killing everyone but me around you Imitating every inch of her perfectly down to the stench of her lust emanating through the prison Crying and pleading and tainting her memory Taunting me begging for freedom aware of the life that she took away Down here they are not the same Laying hollowed dead until the limb decides to fill them Dormant translucent casings test my will to survive What kind of plan is this to live out the end of days in a tunnel tortured by the replication of a loved one? The choice of feast or famine Do I stay and starve myself or take her out as red Goliath bait Down here they are not the same Laying hollowed dead until the limb decides to fill them Dormant translucent casings test my will to survive What kind of plan is this to live out the end of days in a tunnel tortured by the replication of a loved one? The choice of feast or famine Do I stay and starve myself or take her out as red goliath bait take her out as red goliath bait Goliath meat will let me live and if I stay down here I’ll never eat it Sparing her is death One must give up their mind and moral binding Looking back is death Looking down is death I rip her from the carrion ladder MUSIC VIDEO CREDITS: DIRECTOR / POST PRODUCTION Dean Lamb WRITER / PRODUCER Oliver Peters PRODUCERS Savannah Bagshaw Oliver Peters SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Savannah Bagshaw CAMERA DEPARTMENT Camera Operator – Dean Lamb Assistant Camera – Claine Lamb LIGHTING & GRIP Gaffer – Andrew Johnson Grip/Lighting – Cole McPherson Grip/Lighting – Sofia Gallego MAKEUP Nerida Karlen Erin Peters PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Brett Bamberger Claine Lamb Matthew Pancoust CAST Tobi Morelli – Actor Jared Smith – Actor Spencer Moore – Actor Dana Laing – Janitor Emmanuel Gonzalez – Bouncer Jillian Brown - Oli's Mom CATERING Ira Peters Thanks to Aaron Bell and Shannon O’Shea, and Louise and Mark Bentlay for allowing us into their home and the use of their car. Thank you to The Cobalt for allowing us to shoot a really stupid music video in your legendary venue. Thanks to Nigel Springthorpe at The Magnet.

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