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2000 studio album by Virgin Black
Sombre Romantic
Studio album by Virgin Black
Released14 October 2000
Recorded2000
GenreDoom metal, classical music, opera, gothic metal, industrial metal
Length44:38
LabelCrestfallen Records
Virgin Black chronology
Trance (EP)
(1998) 		Sombre Romantic
(2000) 		Elegant... and Dying
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Lords of Metal70/100 link
Metal Storm9.2/10 link
Metal.delink (in German)
Powermetal.delink (in German)

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

References

  1. ^ "About Virgin Black". Dark Escapes Music. 2022. it thrust together doom, classical, opera, gothic and industrial elements
  2. "Sombre Romantic - Review: All Music". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 December 2018.

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