Sombre Romantic

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

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

External links

• retrieved 10-1-07