Album Review: Millstone – Isle (Self Released)

Siberian metal collective Millstone is set to release its newest album ‘Isle’ on May 15th, 2021. Isle is a concept album based on sci-fi novel “The Inhabited Island” (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky).

A bit groove metal, a bit death metal, a bit thrash metal and all heavy fucking metal. Millstone unleash a hefty slab of noise for those hungry for a reason to let loose and head-bang like lives depended on it. Isle is packed with groovy and meaty riffs, melodic solos, brutal passages and a few surprises here and there.

It’s all of this that gets the album started in destructive fashion with Patres Ignotum. Whereas Promised Land has a death metal straight-forwardness with technical sounding guitar screeches. Before Turned Inside Out rips and tears its way through the soft underbelly of groove metal wannabes. The shit that makes you head-bang, for sure.

Everything Is As it Should Be then sees Millstone deliver an unforgiving burst of fury, a frenzied guitar solo really standing out. The Dark Tower brings a bit more of a melodic bite will still dripping in venomous aggression and Zombieland has all the thrashy chaos of a swarm of undead piling into a heavily populated city.

It’s such a badass listen. Millstone never quite being one thing or the other but combining all of it to create their own slice of heavy metal gold. Quality stuff that continues into monstrously riffy One-way Ticket, the groove beast that is The War of Fools and methodical abuse mixed with melodic intensity that Progressor dishes out. Brilliant stuff.

Millstone – Isle Full Track Listing:

1. Patres Ignotum
2. Promised Land
3. Turned Inside Out
4. Everything Is As It Should Be
5. The Dark Tower
6. Zombieland
7. One-way Ticket
8. The War of Fools
9. Progressor

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