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.