SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL – 2026 North American Tour Pt 2 – The Pearl, Las Vegas

September 17, 2026 – I love middle of the week shows. No, really. I do. The Pearl inside The Palms hotel right off the Las Vegas strip was the place to be on Wednesday night. With a simple two band lineup, headliner Slaughter to Prevail returned to the City of Sin for the second leg of their North American tour cycle. Back in April they sold the fuck out of Brooklyn Bowl, which is rad, but I was pretty excited to see these guys in a venue as lovely as The Pearl. Along for the ride this time around was Rev3rent, a very young Deathcore act from our neighbors to the west, California. 

Rev3rent

Exploding onto the stage first, Rev3rent. Have you ever seen a young band and just thought, “Yeah… the kids are gonna be alright.”? That was my exact thought the second these kids started their set. I couldn’t help but feel a wave of nostalgia watching Rev3rent rip up this stage. The feeling was very similar to the way I felt at 18 when I discovered Suicide Silence for the first time. This is a good thing, for me, at least. The vocalist could be seen thrashing around the stage erratically and it very much gave me early 2000’s Mitch Lucker vibes. Heavy and absolutely fucking relentless is what this band is. Later on in the evening we would all hear Alex Terrible praise them and predict that they will be bigger than Slaughter to Prevail some day. And you know what? I hope he’s right. These guys give a fresh take on a genre that’s really easy to get monotonous and boring in, I look forward to seeing what the future holds for them and I hope to catch them the next time they come to Vegas, hopefully on a headlining tour of their own sometime after their debut album is released.

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Slaughter to Prevail

I have been waiting for the chance to cover Slaughter to Prevail since first hearing them a few years back. After missing the last couple Vegas dates, I could not have been more thrilled to finally be able to see them live. There’s just something so interesting about these guys, and I’m not talking about the fact that the entire band wears masks for the entirety of their sets. (Minus the singer, he removes his mask after the first song or two.) This may be a little bit of a cliche thing these days, considering there’s a good handful of bands wearing mask getups and nobody knows who they actually are. But, that’s not really a focus of mine when it comes to these guys and how they sound. Their chosen imagery is very cool, and I’ll leave that there. 

If you’re somehow here and unaware or have not heard of Slaughter to Prevail, these guys got their start back in 2014 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but are now living here in the US – Florida to be more precise. While it’s been well over a decade since their inception, they really started gaining traction over the last 5 or 6 years. (At least that’s when they’ve made their way into my view, I know several tours with other deathcore acts over the years have helped launch them to where they are now.) 

Outside of the visual appeal Slaughter to Prevail has, the most obvious and immediate observation I made when I first heard these guys was the AGGRESSION. Like, it’s not regular aggression. It’s something outside of the general guardrails of typical deathcore aggression. And it very well could be just their Russian roots. They combine a special dose of elements of metalcore and traditional death metal to their sound while remaining solidly in the deathcore genre. Naturally I picked up on this pretty quickly and was immediately in my stink face and headbanging mode. Tracks like “Agony” and “Bonebreaker” off of their 2019 release, Kostolom are some of the best representations of their ability to blend those three anchored genres. Lyrical content spans between topics of personal strength and perseverance, with hints of anti-war and anti-authoritarianism, most notable in songs like “1984” off of 2025’s Grizzly release, which is an obvious nod to George Orwell. But they also don’t leave out their cultural roots with their music either. A number of tracks are blended with both Russian and English languages. All of this… I am here for it. It shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone reading this who knows me that I really dig all of what’s going on here. 

Live:

As far as their live performance goes, Slaughter to Prevail absolutely brings all of that heavy energy to the live setting. Their set started out dark, with members one by one walking out to their spots, Alex Terrible being the final member to take the stage. SLAUGHTER lit up on the huge backdrop/screen space behind them, (and it stayed there for the entirety of the show) and honestly, I was stoked that the production crew chose to execute such wonderful lighting for Slaughter to Prevail, big props to them. (A lot of deathcore bands stay on the darker side lighting wise, not that my opinion matters on this really, I’ll get my shots however I can, but it’s always really cool when a band just has beautiful lighting.) This was also just generally helpful throughout the whole night, the band does have a bit of a stage show happening the whole time, so between the stage set up and the crowd, it made capturing the energy a very fun and positive experience. 

Notable highlights:

*A wall of death on the GA floor was executed during “Bratva”. I love a good wall of death. I’m a little too broken to participate in these myself anymore, but they’re also so fun to see and I feed off of the energy radiating from the crowd. 

*Some spoken words of encouragement regarding changing the world by changing yourself, and how hard it is to shift your mindset. 

*An intense almost 3 minute long drum solo following “Baba Yaga” before pummeling into “Demolisher.”

*An uplifting ode to the openers, Rev3rent, with words about how they think Rev3rent will be bigger than they are one day. 

Overall, Slaughter to Prevail was well worth the wait for me, this was my first time getting to see this massive force live, after first hearing and seeing their shows pop up relatively regularly in the Las Vegas valley over the last few years. I’m used to deathcore being REALLY gritty, and somehow Slaughter to Prevail provided a special blend of grit while also being pretty polished, and I don’t know… there’s something special about that in my eyes. I definitely recommend going and seeing them perform live if you’ve been putting it off. 

Until next time…

PHOTO CREDIT: Live photos by Courtney Ware for ZRockR Magazine – @2026 – All Rights Reserved.