Sombre Romantic

Infobox Album
Name = Sombre Romantic
Type = studio
Artist = Virgin Black


Released = February, 2001
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Symphonic metal, Gothic metal
Length = 44:38
Label = flagicon|AUS Crestfallen Records
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfpxql0ldfe link]
Last album = " Trance (EP)" (1998)
This album = Sombre Romantic (2001)
Next album = "Elegant... and dying" (2003)

"Sombre Romantic" is the first 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 US and in Europe by German label Massacre. A 2002 re-pressing of this album by The End also included the "Trance" EP as a bonus disk.

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

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

* [http://www.virginblack.com Virgin Black] official site
* [http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=396 Encyclopaedia Metallum - Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic] retrieved 10-1-07