Eighteen years after forming, Greek dark rockers Inmost Ego have released their second full-length, Looking Back At The End Of The World…

It’s an intriguing listen. Originally these guys sole wish was to mirror and glorify the works of names like Anathema and Paradise Lost. Similarly, I always assumed I’d open the batting for England, but when reality finally bites (and this only happened very recently for me), you have to find something else with which to occupy your time. So Inmost Egofiguring the world of death/doom misery wasn’t going to happen for them,  shed some members, generated fresh blood around their creative core of Abraham Isaakidis (keys) and Miltos (gutars), and so we find ourselves in 2023 with new music from what is now a quintet. And, as noted, this new music is intriguing…

The album lurches about a bit stylistically, from icy post punk, through avantish musings that wouldn’t sound out of place on a David Sylvian solo LP right back to old school prog. The fulcrum on which the album balances, two ambitious pieces named Blindfold and Elysium (Staring Madness) had this reviewer thinking about his old Marillion albums for much of their duration, but then the next track, Scoundrel (a letter to a dead poet), with it’s chugging guitars and fluttering keys, is something very different altogether. And then the skitterish follow up, Detachment, might be an early Scott Walker attempt at harnessing the power of Bertolt Brecht until the big guitars smash the illusion. You get my point.

If all this sounds like something you might be interested in, then please, dig in, and tell them The Sentinel sent you; However, I suspect that a little too much of the material here is too wilfully obscure for the band to attain broad appeal with this album – but maybe that is the niche this band has been looking to fill all this time. But whatever, I’d suggest giving this a listen at least once, just to see if it’s for you or not…

Looking Back At The End of the World is out now.