Black Moon is a studio album

Studio album

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 by progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...

 released in 1992

1992 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.-January–February:*January 11**Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s....

. The first studio album under the band's original lineup since 1978, it was regarded by fans as a strong comeback, although the band's subsequent career did not fulfill its promise.

Track listing

1. "Black Moon" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 6:56
2. "Paper Blood" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 4:26
3. "Affairs of the Heart" (Geoff Downes
   Geoff Downes
   Geoffrey "Geoff" Downes is an English rock keyboard player, songwriter, best known as the keyboardist for the bands The Buggles, Yes and Asia, of which he is the only consistent member. When he was a keyboardist for The Buggles, he played multiple keyboards to achieve a New Wave technopop sound...
   
   , Lake) – 3:46
4. "Romeo and Juliet" (Sergei Prokofiev
   Sergei Prokofiev
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   ) – 3:40
5. "Farewell to Arms" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:08
6. "Changing States" (Emerson) – 6:01
7. "Burning Bridges" (Mark Mancina
   Mark Mancina
   Mark Alan Mancina is a U.S. composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King including the Broadway musical...
   
   ) – 4:41
8. "Close to Home" (Emerson) – 4:27
9. "Better Days" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:33
10. "Footprints in the Snow" (Lake) – 3:50

"Affairs of the Heart" originated in summer 1988 sessions by Lake with Geoff Downes

Geoff Downes

Geoffrey "Geoff" Downes is an English rock keyboard player, songwriter, best known as the keyboardist for the bands The Buggles, Yes and Asia, of which he is the only consistent member. When he was a keyboardist for The Buggles, he played multiple keyboards to achieve a New Wave technopop sound...

 under the project name Ride the Tiger.

Personnel

• Keith Emerson
  Keith Emerson
  Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
  
   - Keyboards
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  , Piano
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• Greg Lake
  Greg Lake
  Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
  
   - Bass
  Bass guitar
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  , Vocals
  Singing
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  , Guitar
  Guitar
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  , Harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Carl Palmer
  Carl Palmer
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   - Percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , Drums
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Production

• Producer: Mark Mancina
• Engineers: Steve Kempster, Stephen Marcussen, David Mitchell
• Assistant engineers: Anthony Danbury, Gil Morales, Marnie Riley, Brett Swain, Charlie Watts
• Mixing: Steve Kempster, David Mitchell
• Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
• Digital editing: Jay Rifkin
• Programming: Tim Heintz, Gary Hodgson, Ian Morrow, John Van Tongeren
• Keyboard technician: Willie Alexander
• Vocal arrangement: Mark Holding

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1992	The Billboard 200	78