Sombre Romantic

Sombre Romantic
Studio album by Virgin Black
Released	February 2001
Recorded	2000
Genre	Gothic metal, symphonic metal, neo-classical metal
Length	44:38
Label	Crestfallen Records
Virgin Black chronology
Trance (EP) (1998) 'Sombre Romantic' (2001) Elegant... and Dying (2003)

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Sombre Romantic is the debut studio album from Australian gothic metal band Virgin Black. The album was originally released in a very limited pressing within Australia only by Crestfallen Records. It was then 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.

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

Credits

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

External links

• Encyclopaedia Metallum - Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic retrieved 10-1-07