Sombre Romantic is the debut studio album from Australian gothic metal band Virgin Black. 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.
Track listing "Opera de Romanci I. - Stare" - 3:57 "Opera de Romanci II. - Embrace" - 3:52 "Walk Without Limbs" - 4:26 "Of Your Beauty" - 4:00 "Drink the Midnight Hymn" - 5:14 "Museum of Iscariot" - 7:41 "Lamenting Kiss" - 5:25 "Weep for Me" - 1:52 "I Sleep with the Emperor" - 2:40 "A Poet's Tears of Porcelain" - 5:20 "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
References
External links Encyclopaedia Metallum - Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic retrieved 10-1-07