''Sombre Romantic'' is the debut studio album from

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. 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

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. 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

# "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 * * hidden track

Credits

*Samantha Escarbe -

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*Rowan London -

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*Craig Edis - vocals, guitar *Dino Cielo -

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*Ian Miller -

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, vocals *Aaron Nicholls - bass *Chris Handley (guest) -

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References

External links

Encyclopaedia Metallum - Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
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