Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. Bob Seger wrote and performed it.
brute(Noun) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. brute(Noun) Someone with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed I just got out of jail..
The dire wolf (Canis dirus, fearsome dog) is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis, roughly the size of the extant gray wolf, but with a heavier build.