Sombre Romantic

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{{Infobox album

| name = Sombre Romantic

| type = studio

| artist = Virgin Black

| cover = Virgin_Black_-_Sombre_Romantic.jpg

| alt =

| released = 14 October 2000

| recorded = 2000

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Doom metal, classical music, opera, gothic metal, industrial metal{{cite web|title=About Virgin Black|url=https://darkescapesmusic.com/artist/virgin-black/|website=Dark Escapes Music|year=2022|quote=it thrust together doom, classical, opera, gothic and industrial elements}}

| length = 44:38

| label = Crestfallen Records

| producer =

| prev_title = Trance (EP)

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = Elegant... and Dying

| next_year = 2003

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r571808|pure_url=yes}} link]

| rev2= Lords of Metal

| rev2Score= 70/100 [http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/360 link]

| rev3= Metal Storm

| rev3Score=9.2/10 [http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=972 link]

| rev4= Metal.de

| rev4Score= [http://www.metal.de/reviews/virgin-black-sombre-romantic-1660/ link] (in German)

| rev5= Powermetal.de

| rev5Score= [http://powermetal.de/review/review-Virgin_Black/Sombre_Romantic,854.html link] (in German)

}}

Sombre Romantic is the debut studio album from Australian gothic metal band Virgin Black.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sombre-romantic-mw0000658163|title=Sombre Romantic - Review: All Music|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=28 December 2018}} 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.