SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL Keep The "Grizzly" Era Alive With "Koschei" Music Video

Russian metal powerhouse SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL has released the official music video for "Koschei", taken from their crushing new album "GRIZZLY", available now via Sumerian Records. Following the album's explosive release, the band continues to expand the cinematic world of "GRIZZLY" with a visually striking video for one of its most relentless tracks.

Alex Terrible shares: "First of all, I changed the final line from “You can kill me, I don’t care. Hell exists, see you there.” to “Corpus mortale, animus immortalis.”

Koschei, or Koschei the Immortal, is one of the most iconic figures in Slavic mythology and folklore. He’s an ancient sorcerer who cannot be killed by ordinary means because his death is hidden outside of his body. According to the legend, his death is concealed inside a needle, the needle inside an egg, the egg inside a duck, and so on - hidden in a place almost impossible to find. That’s why Koschei represents something far greater than physical immortality. He embodies the idea that the true essence of a being exists beyond the body itself.

The whole song is about the idea that even if you manage to discover how to kill Koschei - the immortal sorcerer - which is incredibly difficult because his death is hidden in a needle that’s buried who knows where, only his physical body dies. His essence, his soul, his energy lives on and is simply reborn into something else.

That’s what this song is really about. It’s about learning, during your lifetime, to crystallize what people call the spirit or the soul, so that when your body dies, you don’t disappear with it. Only your mortal body is gone, while your true essence continues to exist.

It’s also a reminder not to become obsessed with material things during your life, because when you die, you can’t take any of them with you."

Upcoming EU/UK tour dates as below:

July 24 @ Floyd (Athens, GR) 

July 25 @ Moni Lazariston (Thessaloniki, GR) 

July 27 @ Maimunarnika (Sofia, BG) 

July 29 @ Rockstadt Extreme Fest (Rasnov, RO) 

July 31 @ Full Rewind Festival (Loebnitz, DE) 

August 1 @ Garage (Saarbruecken, DE) 

August 2 @ LKA Longhorn (Stuttgart, DE) 

August 5 @ Leyendas del Rock (Villena, ES) 

August 7 @ Alcatraz Festival (Kortrijk, BE) 

August 8 @ Bloodstock Open Air (Derbyshire, UK) 

August 10 @ SWG3 Galvanizers (Glasgow, UK) 

August 12 @ Academy (Bristol, UK) 

August 14 @ Motocultor Festival (Carhaix-Plouguer, FR) 

August 15 @ Dynamo Metalfest (Eindhoven, NL)