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..
Well, if you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that'll suction your face clean off, and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness.