Review: “A Waste Of Good Suffering” by Body Prison

It seems that Melbourne Deathcore quartet Body Prison have one thing and one thing only upon their collective minds… and yes, it’s filthy. They claim to have written a collection of cuts designed from the ground up with the live experience in mind, aimed at getting maximum crowd participation and mosh pit violence at shows all around the globe. They’ve already given a handful of those songs their live debut, something which caught the attention of Greyscale Records and have made a friend in Dane Evans of To The Grave. The promise is of something violent and visceral which combines uncompromising brutality, relentless mayhem and larger than life sounds to create a golden age of the grotesque. The question is, have vocalist Daniel Macdonald, drummer Frankie Demuru, bassist NJ VanVidler and guitarist Eli Micallef achieved it?

If you were expecting a little bit of Whitesnake… lets just say for forty seven seconds there was Armageddon with “Here We Go Again” an introduction piece of Nu-Metalcore origins. A bouncy, glitch-y riff and neck snapping percussion sets the tone before the potent “Jesus Wept” which features a guest vocal appearance from Dane Evans of To The Grave strikes like an uppercut to the jaw from a prize fighter. Fusing together Deathcore with Nu-Metalcore and Slam elements means you get a really intense experience that’s anvil heavy as well as being restless and relentless. It’s like every time the flow stops you think the pain is over but then the band bring it back around once more. There are a couple of moments here or there where you might hear an influence from Alpha Wolf or Ten56 but in reality this is a whole different animal and these guys will burst your ear drums at thirty paces and leave you for dead given half a chance.

The band generate the white heat of a steel furnace with “Judas Cradle” as Daniel Macdonald’s scalding vocals are more than enough to trigger a brain haemorrhage, the Slam moments in the final third enough to wake the dead. A well worked false ending might catch a few off guard but in truth its the body slamming rhythmic energy and aggression of Kublai Khan that the band have captured like lightening in a bottle for the Deathcore crowd. Flipping the script almost entirely “Excess in Avarice” is a heavy end Industrial Nu-Metal cut with flavours of Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, a melody buried underneath the weight of sound rising to the surface to send a shiver down the spine. Variety is the spice of life and the band cleverly shift into Nu-Metalcore territory towards the bitter end, leaving you wondering what you just heard.

Returning to the bounce of the earlier cuts “Blister Face” slaps with the force of a freight train, the barked vocals descending into guttural madness before too long. What’s clever about this one is that the mosh parts are broken up with two step moments so you can tell that despite the vicious vocal tirade the track has been built from the ground up for live displays of total and utter violence. “Ironclad” then offers up a bit of down-tuned downtempo madness with a churn and burn opening making way for blast beats to bring the blood and thunder. Twisting and contorting with bone snapping percussion and uncompromising brutality, this one is so filthy that it might have you needing to do some emergency washing [7.5/10]

Track Listing

1. Here We Go Again
2. Jesus Wept (ft. Dane Evans of To The Grave)
3. Judas Cradle
4. Excess in Avarice
5. Blister Face
6. Ironclad

“A Waste Of Good Suffering” by Body Prison is out 20th November 2026 via Greyscale Records