Sombre Romantic

Sombre Romantic
Studio album by
Virgin Black
Released14 October 2000
Recorded2000
GenreDoom metal, classical music, opera, gothic metal, industrial metal[1]
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.[2] 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.[1]

  1. ^ a b "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.