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

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