The Mountains of Madness is an audiovisual musical adaptation of the works of H. P. Lovecraft by Tiger Lillies, Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke.
Tiger Lillies performs the music with narration by Hacke from selections of Lovecraft's stories.
The music is underscored by soundscapes created and performed by Alexander Hacke and illustrations by Danielle de Picciotto.
[3] The songs: The music has not been released on CD, but a DVD featuring the complete premier performance is available.
In 2013 the performance was adapted into Necronomicon, a musical for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden.
During digging the workers found "strange geology" in the mine and Judith Grip, an old friend of Edward was sent after.
As the trio arrives in Svartvatten Edward is nowhere to be found and they decide to go look for him in the mine (The Mountains of Madness).
When Edward Jr mentions the music Sebastian reveals he can hear it to and finds it beautiful.
Edith sinks into despair thinking Sebastian has succeeded with his plan (Haunter of the Dark).
Edward and Judith had discovered minerals in the local mountains allowing a mine to be opened.
Sebastian suddenly awakens from the dead and attacks the group trying to prevent them from performing the ritual but they manage to kill him again.
Judith burns the Necronomicon preventing the awakening from being stopped but Edward Jr stabs her to death thus robbing her of her prize: seeing and meeting the Gods.
In a chilling twist the entire front story is revealed to be the actual delusion: Edward Jr. is still in the cave and the hospital scenario is a defense mechanism.
As Edward wallows in his despair in the mine, above the Old Gods destroys all other life on the planet (Do You Know What's Wrong?