Sombre Romantic

Sombre Romantic is the debut studio album from Australian gothic metal band Virgin Black.^[2] The album was originally released on 14 October 2000 in a very limited pressing within Australia only by Crestfallen Records. It was then re-released on 12 February 2001 on The End Records in the United States and in Europe by German label Massacre Records. A 2002 re-pressing of this album by The End also included the Trance EP as a bonus disk. In 2021, Virgin Black signed the first official worldwide streaming release of Sombre Romantic with the Australian distributor Dark Escapes Music.^[1]

Sombre Romantic
Studio album by Virgin Black
Released	14 October 2000
Recorded	2000
Genre	Doom metal, classical music, opera, gothic metal, industrial metal[1]
Length	44:38
Label	Crestfallen Records
Virgin Black chronology
Trance (EP) (1998) Sombre Romantic (2000) Elegant... and Dying (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Lords of Metal	70/100 link
Metal Storm	9.2/10 link
Metal.de	link (in German)
Powermetal.de	link (in German)

Track listing

1. "Opera de Romanci I. - Stare" - 3:57
2. "Opera de Romanci II. - Embrace" - 3:52
3. "Walk Without Limbs" - 4:26
4. "Of Your Beauty" - 4:00
5. "Drink the Midnight Hymn" - 5:14
6. "Museum of Iscariot" - 7:41
7. "Lamenting Kiss" - 5:25
8. "Weep for Me" - 1:52
9. "I Sleep with the Emperor" - 2:40
10. "A Poet's Tears of Porcelain" - 5:20
11. "Outro" - 0:11 *

* hidden track

Credits

• Samantha Escarbe - lead guitar
• Rowan London - lead vocals, keyboards, piano
• Craig Edis - vocals, guitar
• Dino Cielo - drums
• Ian Miller - bass, vocals
• Aaron Nicholls - bass
• Chris Handley (guest) - cello