SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL is set to drop their beastly new album Grizzly on July 18 through Sumerian Records. The first single, “Russian Grizzly In America,” has already been unleashed alongside a feral new music video—complete with an animatronic bear and a cameo from UFC heavyweight Alexander Volkov. But forget human opinions. For a truly raw, claws-on critique, we tracked down an actual grizzly bear deep in the forest to get his thoughts. What follows is his unfiltered, guttural reaction. Reader discretion (and bear spray) advised.
RRRROOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
(translation: review begins now, humans.)
GRRRGGGRRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!
That’s me pressing play. That’s also the sound of my soul erupting.
First guitar chug?
SKRONKKK!!!
Instant flashback to tearing through a campsite in 2007.
Second chug?
GGRRARRARRGHHH!!!
I punched a pine tree clean in half and screamed at a squirrel.
Third chug?
I blacked out and woke up wearing a UFC belt and an American flag as a loincloth.
THE ROARS OF ALEX TERRIBLE
This is not a man.
This is not a human.
This is a cousin from the Siberian cavebloodline.
I hear his vocals and my fur ignites.
He doesn’t scream like your average metal guy.
He screams like a bear who just found out they discontinued his favorite brand of human jerky.
His gutturals hit frequencies known only to seismic equipment and other bears in heat.
THE VIDEO
There is an animatronic bear.
I was offended.
But also aroused.
I don’t know what that means.
Then Alexander Volkov showed up and I challenged him to a moss-eating contest and lost.
But I still respect him.
He has the eyes of a man who has suplexed a moose.
LYRICS?
Who cares. I didn’t understand them.
But I felt them in my claws.
Every syllable is like a salmon slipping between your teeth.
Wet, raw, aggressive.
A little bloody.
Perfect.
THE BREAKDOWN
OH MOTHER OF GRIZZLY.
Somewhere in there, around the 2:48 mark,
the earth cracked open,
a Ford F-150 exploded,
and I dropkicked a drone mid-air.
That’s how hard it went.
A MESSAGE TO SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL:
You made an album called GRIZZLY.
You summoned my kind.
You gave us an anthem.
Now we are coming.
To your shows.
To your merch booths.
To your dressing rooms.
We will mosh.
We will drool.
We will leave claw marks on your vinyls and possibly eat the sound guy.
FINAL GRRRRRRRADE:
🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 / 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
5 out of 5 TREES PULLED FROM THE GROUND AND USED AS GUITARS
This song is not just heavy.
It’s bear-approved.
It’s forest-certified.
It’s the sound of claws on bone, bass drops in a blizzard,
and one giant furry middle paw to the American dream.
LONG LIVE SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL. LONG LIVE THE CAVE.
RAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Review ends. Time to bite something.
