"Elegant... and Dying" is the second album from the Australian gothic metal band Virgin Black. The album was released in June, 2003 on The End Records. Publications such as The Village Voice praised the album. Prior to the release of the album, the vocalist Rowan London took lessons from a professional opera singer, bolstering the album's operatic elements further. Read more on Last.fm.
Virgin Black is a gothic doom metal band formed in Adelaide, Australia in 1993. Virgin Black currently consists of the founding members and main songwriters Samantha Escarbe (lead guitar, cello) and Rowan London (keyboard, vocals), with Grayh (bass) and Luke Faz (drums) joining in 2007. The group explains the meaning of its name as "the juxtaposition of purity and humanity's darkness".
After the release of a self-titled demo album in 1996, the group began gaining international recognition with 1998's "Trance" EP Read more on Last.fm
