Mudrum (Italy)

 

The White Side of Darkness

1. Before starting with the strictly musical stuff, I want to thank you for being part of this first release called Visión-Furor-Ideal. magazine.

Thank you for contacting me for this interview and I am honored to be here to answer your questions as I am extremely proud to have been involved in this project!

2. How do you see the Black Metal NS movement until the current year?

mah... look honestly at the NS scene understood as a gender "label" under which groups and projects that have to do with National Socialist ideology are united (although defining the movement in such a simplistic way is very reductive in my opinion ) I still see it prosperous and full of many good ideas, like many young people, especially young people who are not afraid to take sides. Unfortunately, we all know very well how the world of music in general, and that of black metal in particular, these days is taking a disgusting turn, giving in to politically correct drifts that are not and cannot even be combined with what black is. metal. , that it was, and that it should continue to be. I don't want to give a history lesson, but we all know that black was born out of a desire to self-exile from the conventional world, creating a vivid antagonism to all that was commercial and marketable, thus also assuming something more than provocative and blasphemous connotations, it is now the fact that satanism and everything that gravitates around it from an antagonistic cult of good and therefore a character of belonging to certain scenes and subcultures has instead become a commodity for pop consumption. By now almost all pop and mainstream artists have more or less winked at a provocative pseudo-satanic imagery with explicit usurpations of symbology as always more socially accepted and almost justified in a measure of purely adolescent rebellion in the name of black sweatshirts . with the pentacle, goat and 666 candles, inverted crosses on the cover of the IPhone x and the rapper on duty with the t-shirt of an 80's metal band because it's cool to be a pseudo-Satanist... all this has brought black artists looking for a new way of provocation and self-placement on the "bad" side and the swastika has taken hold as it is not justifiable in the eyes of the mainstream in any way... and only condemnable and therefore fully embodied everything we wanted and we sought to go back to being the ugly and evil ones dressed in black with studs and no longer satanists but nazis. This has certainly created a boom in groups and gangs that put themselves under the NS banner, but it has also created confusion because many of these groups are not really National Socialist, not even Nationalist... just looking for a spotlight. to enlighten them for a second, and since they can't musically prove it by making statements that can attract the indignation of the majority. This vicious circle, however, has sacrificed many bands and realities that actually have an idealistic and political substance within them. In fact, now if we go to an aesthetic analysis, the truly militant bands have been gradually abandoning the image of hard and pure black in the name of industrial tacos and corpse paint to assume a more militant aesthetic and closer to a more stage nshc or finally . post-skinhead. In fact, today if we go to an M8l8th event (in my opinion one of the most brilliant and serious bands out there at the moment, both musically and militantly and content-wise) or Peste Noire de Famine we will find some old blackster disheveled and out of date but above all we will find many types that aesthetically can be contextualized absolutely within the casual stadium movement or in any case much closer to the Nipster aesthetic. All of this is not only a sacrosanct and physiological evolution of a movement that is moving further and further away from the black classic that is culturally and morally degenerating, but it is also a necessity that takes content as the main axis of the movement, bringing ns blackster itself closer to to be black metal hooligans instead of old blacksters because in the militant environment there are aesthetic codes that must be respected. And this... I like it.

3. When and how was Mudrum formed? Why the name?

The Mudrum project was born in a particular period of my life, a period that deeply marked my personal path, both musically and personally, everything comes to life during a long period of house arrest for a serious crime (a period that in different modalities from the beginning or with more freedom, but that is still ongoing in fact I am still serving the sentence for which I have been sentenced) I was sentenced to 13 years in the first instance, then the sentence was reduced to a total of 5 years and 8 months for attempted murder aggravated (reasons related to racial hatred) however, during the second phase of my detention, that is the one I had to spend no longer in prison but in house arrest later at home, as a pastime against boredom I went back to writing music that actually I hadn't done it for many years, I've played in numerous bands throughout my life playing the most varied instruments (which has allowed me to technically manage all the instrumental parts of the Mudrum project) I played mainly hardcore/hatecore and oi! An almost obligatory choice given my long skinhead past, although I have not disdained some participation as a session player in some black and death projects that never had great resonance and notoriety. Instead, the skinhead scene allowed me to tour almost the entire underground scene in northern Italy and beyond. Back to Mudrum It was my love of black that gave me the unhealthy idea to plunge headlong into a one-manband solo venture as I later became the Mudrum project, it all really took shape when for fun and maybe even a bit to challenge myself i tried to write all the instrumental parts of a piece, a piece that becomes part of my first album, the "white side of darkness". The rest with time and dedication came alone, I love black metal and I listen to that mainly, although I'm not new to nshc and hatecore drifts, although I prefer to play these genres than listen to them, but let's say that then Mudrum because of how I You know, today it was born out of nothing and then I had to give it shape, finding in the texts full of racial hatred and volkisch culture a natural outlet for my thought and the ideology that I proudly carried against everything and everyone. As for the name Mudrum does not have a literal meaning, it should be a pseudo dialectal expression with which cryptics of the local Ligurian Apuan tradition identify themselves, although the language of Ligurian Apuna has not yet been fully studied by experts, in fact , the meaning is still discussed and revised, it still has a mystical, dark and mysterious connotation.

4. What are your inspirations, both ideological and musical?

But look musically, the sources of inspiration that I am going to draw from are always different and changing, certainly starting from the classics of black and specifically from the nsbm, but if you go to search my beautiful playlist, you will find in sequence totenlieder of Absurd with ab. Fidelis origin by baise ma hache, followed by the first demo by Vouïvre and then revenge or conqueror. I really like the French scene from the obvious plague noire to alcest, I particularly like French black metal, in fact I really like writing lyrics in French, lately I've been listening with interest to a Russian band that writes in French, the Passeisme. Apart from the newly released stuff, I really appreciated the work of the fairra released last year, if I'm not mistaken, let's just say that I really like to look for ideas in emerging bands, because they usually have a real energy that surf bands often run the risk of losing moving forward in time. Ideologically, instead, I find ideas in all of Western classical literature from Schopenhauer to Plato to more recent and ideologized study material such as Brasillach, Celine and obviously the classics of the area such as D'Annunzio.                                                    Lately I've been reading ragnar redbear and Maspero with pleasure, but also lighter and goliardic things like svart jugend... to quote one of his maxims that represent a lot to me "manesque children all read Dostoevsky"... well, it's a beautiful image.

5. What can you tell us about the registrations to date or future registrations?

At the moment I can't tell you when and how I will produce new material, my second album will be released very soon, which will come out with Winter solace, it will be an agglomeration of raw and aerial philosophy and war futurism in an old fashioned nsbm key, after this album there will be a of my cover songs in a tribute album to the compatriots via dolorosa but after these projects I don't want to give myself other deadlines... in the future we'll see, I don't want to say too much, certainly the mvdrvm project doesn't end here, in fact, yet they will hear about me...

6. Tell us a little about the song L'Impracticabilité Irréaliste de l'égalité" (We can appreciate an elite sound composition).

You chose one of the songs that best represents me, the riff and the purely musical part was born from the fusion of two guidelines that I had written down studying some guitar sections, then the drum part came alone, on the other hand the lyrics are much more visceral and refined, I was studying some songs of the French pro-Nazi militias like "le chant di diable" and I was inspired by them, also taking as a reference some popular beliefs that feed the myth linked to the Leibstandarte, and the result is more how satisfying!

7. You will participate in the compilation “The Horde Unleashes Anger. Vol. 2. What are your expectations for the release?

My expectations are very high since, in each of my releases, I put my blood body and soul into the music and what I do and therefore the expectations are always very high, I was in contact with these guys who proposed this work together and finally materialized, I hope I have lived up to it, however, I am proud to have participated in such a project... every opportunity is good to spread the seed of national socialist black metal!

8. Tell us a bit about Mudrum's lyrics... What is your inspiration when you write? Could you share with us a fragment of one of your texts?

Look at my texts until they are almost always reinterpretations of essays or political writings, almost as a personal point of view on a certain topic, although many instead of talking about politics get lost in the labyrinth of Western and especially European esoteric culture, but in In any case, personal writings remain almost like a philosophical treatise on a previously chosen topic.

9. How is the composition and registration process ?

It all comes out very naturally, usually I start with a guitar riff, then on the desk I create the different guitar parts, then I adapt everything with the drum lines, sometimes I add the bass before moving on to the synth and ambient part. than me rub a long time. How much I hate keyboards and banal noises, so I'd rather insert nothing than a nasty harmonic loop. But that's it anyway.

10. Which labels were interested in representing Mudrum?

I must say that I was lucky because I received some proposals, but I decided from my heart to put political ideals before my wallet, in fact, I collaborate exclusively with labels deployed in the nsbm scene

11. Do you collaborate with other projects?

I have collaborated with many bands and if I have to say that my favorite is definitely the tribute voice that I recorded for Via Dolorosa, who are my compatriots, but in any case I do not disdain anything at the level of collaborations. The nsbm is a seed and should be planted on as many lands as possible to spread the word!

12. Finally a few words for the readers... Thank you for your time Edward D. It is a great honor for you to participate in the fanzine. Salve Mudrum!

But nothing special, I thank those who listen and support me, but above all those who still believe in National Socialist black metal because it is thanks to those who buy and support that bands like Mudrum exist!! So I feel like dedicating my greetings to you!

Sieg heil!