page_title: Virgin Black
section_title: Record deal
hierarchical_section_title: Virgin Black / History / Record deal
caption_attribution_description: Samantha Escarbe of the Australian gothic-doom metal musical group Virgin Black. Taken at Elements of Rock festival 2007, Stadshofsaal, Uster, Switzerland. Originally uploaded at Italian Wikipedia by Senpai who says in the description that he was authorized by the webmaster of whitemetal.it site, Valerio Mei (author of the photo), to upload the photo. Licended under Italian Creative Commons attribute (CC-BY-SA-2.5-it). The image had a tag saying that the image is suitable for Wikimedia Commons.
context_page_description: Virgin Black is an Australian gothic doom band. Signed to The End Records and Germany's Massacre Records, the band has released 4 albums and 1 EP.
  Formed in 1995 in Adelaide, they have achieved international acclaim during their career, receiving praise from such magazines as Orkus, Metal Hammer, Legacy and The Village Voice.
  Having changed their line-up several times, Virgin Black currently consists of the founding members and main songwriters: Samantha Escarbe and Rowan London, with Grayh and Luke Faz joining in 2007. The group explains the meaning of its name as "the juxtaposition of purity and humanity's darkness".
context_section_description: The group began recording their first full-length album Sombre Romantic in 1999.
  The album displays an expansively cinematic, symphonic style with London contributing a diverse vocal style from shrieks and growls to soaring melodies and choral chants. On the strength of this self-released debut, Virgin Black signed to Germany's Massacre Records for Europe and also to the U.S. label The End. Both labels then released Sombre Romantic in their territories.
  After completing their second album during 2002, Virgin Black played at Germany's Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in 2003 and did a tour through the US west coast with Agalloch and Antimatter before returning to Australia and conducting a national tour. Elegant... and Dying featured Escarbe contributing cello and guest musician Sonia Wilkie playing flute. It was released in November and a month later the band appeared at the Metal for the Brain festival in Canberra. Early the following year, Virgin Black toured alongside Opeth in Australia, and later did a tour of the Australian east coast capitals with Sydney black metal band Nazxul before making a start on their next recordings.
caption: Samantha Escarbe
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