Concert Reviews

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL: Concert Review and Photos

Brooks Robinson captures Slaughter to Prevail, Whitechapel, and Attila at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas.

by Brooks Robinson

Updated April 07, 2026

Slaughter to Prevail performing on stage at the Brooklyn Bowl

Slaughter to Prevail – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas – April 4, 2026

Slaughter to Prevail Sold out show at the Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas - Front of the venue sign states "sold out"

What do you expect from a band where the Russian lead singer is a bare-knuckle boxer, wrestles grizzly bears on camera, regularly orchestrates some of the largest walls of death in history, goes by the name Alex Terrible, and is capable of screaming as loud without a microphone and PA system as he is using one? You expect the kind of night that Slaughter to Prevail provided Saturday at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas – one where the room vibrated with pent-up energy and the crowd was as frenzied as any crowd before them.

From the outside, you wouldn’t know such an event was happening, as the Brooklyn Bowl is located in an outdoor shopping mall between Harrah’s Casino and the Flamingo Casino, and about 100 yards from the High Roller – the largest observation wheel (Ferris wheel) in the world. Inside, in addition to a modern 2500 capacity concert hall with state-of-the-art sound, it has 32 bowling lanes next to the open floor with leather couches…a strange combination if you think too hard about it, but when Slaughter to Prevail is playing on stage, it is difficult to think about anything except feeling the thumping of the music in your very being, and survival…there isn’t room for anything else.

The venue said “Sold Out” on the marquee, and I’m sure that was true, in fact, I’m 100% sure it was grossly oversold. The main rectangular room has a large standing area, surrounded on three sides by a raised area, perhaps five steps up. Movement in the main area was impossible. There were only a few crowd surfers, and I believe that there simply wasn’t room for them to be hoisted up – also, the mosh pit was so large and spinning ferociously for much of the evening that crowd surfers only had a few rows of heads to cruise over because the pit took up so much of the floor. As for the surrounding area, it was nearly impossible to navigate through – if you needed to get a drink or use the bathroom, you were either out of luck, or needed to be highly motivated and not afraid to make contact with your fellow concert-goers – it was shoulder to shoulder and then some.

Slaughter To Prevail

The room seemed to pulse and move with the energy of the audience, matched only by that of the band, who weren’t messing around. This is high-volume, high-energy music and is no joke. People were there not just to listen and bop their heads or tap their foot along with the beat, but to be active participants. The only real moment of reprieve was during “Bratva” when Alex requested the room split from side to side for the wall of death, before encouraging everyone to “Try to be safe…”, and then the moment of calm disappeared in a sudden rush of elbows, shoulders, heads, and who knows what else…

This was a show unlike any other I’ve been to. I saw Slaughter to Prevail at Aftershock last year, but it wasn’t remotely the same as Saturday in Vegas. At a festival, not everyone is there strictly to see a specific band – they might be passing by the stage on their way to another stage, holding their position for the headliner, or just curious because of something they’ve heard. This crowd lined up hours before the doors opened to be as close as they could to the stage, and there’s no place they’d rather have been then at the Bowl - exhausted, drenched in sweat, and ready to keep going as long as the music continued to blare, even with the weight of humanity bearing down on them from all directions with tremendous force. This was a night to remember, and those who were in attendance won’t soon forget it.

Setlist:

Bonebreaker
Banditos
Russian Grizzly in America
Viking
Imdead
Babayka
Bratva
Baba Yaga
Koschei
Drum Solo
Conflict
Kid of Darkness
Behelit

Encore:

Demolisher

Slaughter to Prevail are:

Alex Terrible – Vocals
Jack Simmons – Guitar
Mike Petrov – Bass
Evgeny Novikov – Drums
Dmitry Mamedov – Guitar

Whitechapel

When Whitechapel’s Phil Bozeman growls into a microphone, time seems to move at a different speed, the ground underneath seems unsteady, and people lucky enough to be in the audience go out of their minds. Being in the photo pit is cool for any band, but to be a mere two feet away from something as unique as Phil’s delivery is incredible, while at that distance his vocals were loud enough to hear above the drone of the PA system turned to eleven – truly otherworldly.

The Knoxville,Tennessee band formed in 2006, and is named after the Whitechapel district in London, where Jack the Ripper committed grisly murders in the late 1880’s. That was shocking then, and in a different way, witnessing Whitechapel live is shocking to the uninitiated…minus the gruesome death of course. When they started, their three-guitar attack was revolutionary to the deathcore scene, and the wall of sound coming from the stage on this night was staggering. This music isn’t for everyone, but the people who stood in line for hours and were crammed in like cattle were diehard fans and wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

Whitechapel are:

Phil Bozeman – Vocals
Gabe Crisp – Bass
Ben Savage - Guitar
Alex Wade – Guitar
Zach Householder- Guitar
Brandon Zackey – Drums

Attila

When the lights came up for Attila, the first observation was that drummer Tyler Kruckmeyer and his kit were completely buried behind vocalist Chris Fronzak’s riser – only his head and cymbals could be seen by the crowd, a trend that would continue for Whitechapel’s set as well.

Sight lines aside, Attila was a formidable force, which was required on a bill like this – opening for Slaughter to Prevail is no easy task – the fan’s expectations are simply too high to be subpar or to phone it in. The Atlanta, Georgia metalcore four-piece has more than twenty years of experience in the game, and were definitely up to the challenge promoting their just released 10th record, Concrete Throne.

Besides pride and wanting to put on a great show, they had a good reason to kill it – this was their first performance in Las Vegas in eight years after they were banned from playing in Nevada due to a 2018 altercation on stage and the resulting lawsuit that followed. Vocalist Chris Fronzak and bassist Kalan Adam jumped into action to protect their fans from what they deemed abuse by security guards in the pit. Chris alluded to the incident after the first song, and said how happy they were to be playing for their Nevada fans again, and the crowd welcomed them back with a roar of approval.

Attila are: