At The Mountains Of Madness — the Soundtrack

Music composed especially for the campaign

1933. An intrepid expedition research sets off into the eternal ice of Antarctica to reveal its last secrets. But what the expedition members find there is beyond the human imagination. In the depths of a gigantic mountain range lie the remains of a forgotten Precambrian civilization. So the researchers inadvertently wake a horror that should better have been hidden under the ice.
This classic horror novel by H.P. Lovecraft and the cult Pen&Paper RPG Cthulhu serve as the basis for the tenth concept album by Erdenstern. Together with Frank Heller, writer and editor in chief of Cthulhu Germany and the French publisher of Cthulhu Sans DéTour they went on their probably most profound musical journey.
The soundtrack accompanies the researchers of the Starkweather-Moore expedition from New York to the depths of the Antarctic and takes the adventurers through the horror that lurks in the cold mountains of eternal ice. With the stylistic narrative power of symphonic film music, the composition describes the critical moments of the adventure. Important characters and events are accompanied by music, scenery is described, and the merciless struggle for survival with nature - and with things and beings against nature - set in an accent rich musical scene.

The music was composed by Andreas Petersen.

*This is the Cover of the digital version available via iTunes, the original booklet is bilingual in German and French. There is an English booklet available for download.

Tracklist

1. 1933 (1:23)
2. Mountains Of Madness (4:47)
3. The City That Never Sleeps (3:02)
4. Antarctic Moon (2:49)
5. Expedition Leader (3:57)
6. The Dead Sailor (2:28)
7. The (Un)known Beauty (3:51)
8. Sabotage (2:57)
9. On The High Seas (4:20)
10. Crossing-The-Line Ceremony (2:31)
11. Antarctica (4:07)
12. The Abandoned Base Camp (4:05)
13. Tempest And Ice (1:39)
14. Caves (3:47)
15. The Wicked Germans (4:00)
16. Reconnaissance Flight In The Mountains 1 (3:00)
17. Reconnaissance Flight In The Mountains 2 (1:16)
18. The Strange City (3:48)
19. Let's Explore It! (3:25)
20. The Dark Tower (3:51)
21. The Ancient (4:33)
22. Will We Make It Back? (3:57)
23. Monster (2:05)
24. The City That Never Sleeps Again (3:18)

The passion to musically accompany and form stories yet untold can be found throughout Erdenstern's conceptual work — music inspired by contemporary movie soundtracks. Music that takes the listener onto a mystical, adventurous journey, in the tradition of classical composers, but with a cinematic story line. Music that helps create images in one's mind, and that gives everyone their own fantastic story: Music for the adventure in your mind.

Erdenstern are Eva-Maria Irek, Andreas Petersen and Per Dittmann.

Frank Heller

The chief editor of Cthulhu in German has not only breathed life into numerous publications, the magazine "Cthulhoide Welten" and the English-language offshoot "Worlds of Cthulhu", but has also given the impetus for writing the new version of the campaign "Mountains of Madness", as it was published in French and German.
As a fanatical disciple of Cthulhu, his soul will still not be saved.

Edition SaNS-DéToUR

Sans-Détour is the French publisher of Cthulhu since 2008. Piotr Borowski, Christian and Samuel Grussi Tarapacki three madmen who dreamed of spreading the word of Cthulhu in France. Together with Frank Heller, they have been working to overcome the mountains of madness.

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Our thanks also go out to:

Marc Simonetti, Marc Meiburg, Hans Schneider, Heike Roessing, Mirko Eckhardt