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Chain D.L.K.: Your iconography deals with an idea of strength. The Arditi were an elite storm troops. What made you decide to embrace these kind "images" which, for sure, must have a powerful impact on people even before they get into your music? Arditi: We are of course aiming for a powerful impact on the potential listener, before they even listen to us. The imagery is an important part of the concept of the Arditi. Obviously Arditi's imagery will also scare the occasional person off, but that is, as I see it, unavoidable, and if you cannot stand the sight of military images, or symbols defining strength, you are most likely so far away from grasping what Arditi is all about that you might just as well not listen to us. Chain D.L.K.: Is this approach your personal answer to the flattening that modern society is undergoing? Arditi: Oh yes. That is exactly what we are trying to do. Chain D.L.K.: Is your music a sort of vehicle for a message to people, a powerful shot whose goal is to awaken their spirits and fight for their inner desires or is it a sort of nihilistic personal thing where your message might be more along the lines of: "the whole world is a rotten shit, so the hell with it, we are the Arditi!"? Arditi: I do not see the two options as exclusive to each other. Most people that strive for the destruction of the current world order also have a plan for the rebuilding of a world order, according to a plan they agree with. This is true with few exceptions, one exception would be anarchist teens who have no political goals beyond defying their parents and fighting the fascist pigs of the police. The world IS a rotten shit though, and I would gladly see it fall apart, but when things are turned over I would not like it to remain chaotic, my dream is not roaming the ruins trying to find food for the day in a stone age fashion. I want a world that works according to principles that are viable. I long for civilization, the problem is just that the current world is not civilized. Chain D.L.K.: One of the things behind the Arditi troops that influenced you the most (by the way, I read that early on you weren't aware that they were Italian special troops) is the Futurist manifesto and mainly the way the the futurists envision war. What impressed you of that approach? Why does war have such importance to you? Arditi: We formed Arditi pretty much right away after reading the Futurist Manifesto for the first time. We might have formed before actually knowing the Arditi were incorporated in the Italian army and just thought they were a volunteer organization of some sort, I do not really remember. We were fascinated by the Futurists, personally I was almost more stricken by Papini than by Marinetti. They used a language that was very appealing and spoke about serious concerns in a non-shy manner that I had not seen in a long time and that experience was quite overwhelming. War is important because in the convenient but decadent world we live in, very few things can incite change in the way people think, but we believe war can do that. The awakening of the spirit in men that occurs in war times cannot be achieved in any other way that I know of.
Arditi: Nordvargr has been a good friend of Arditi since the beginning, and even before the beginning, as Nordvargr's MZ412 and H.Moller's Puissance were on the same label and they knew each other for years before we even started Arditi. He was more involved on the new album than he had been before but I do not know if he is incorporated in any future plans of ours. Time will tell. Chain D.L.K.: "Omni Ensis Impera" has a different approach to sound, less blasting and more tense. What kind of atmosphere did you want to create for it and why? Arditi: We cannot do exactly the same thing over and over. The new album is a little calmer but still within the boundaries of what Arditi is. Chain D.L.K.: What is the most irritant thing that occurred to you during these years as Arditi? Arditi: We have had some problems with distributors who get very upset about some details they had seen but showing no interest in trying to understand what we are about in the whole. We obviously understand that many will not agree with us, but even when people dislike us, we like it better when they have come to this conclusion from actually knowing what we are and what we want to do, and not just seeing one word and start shouting "BAN!". Chain D.L.K.: I read that you composed tracks for the latest two Marduk albums. Can you tell us something more about this collaboration? Arditi: Yes, we have made two songs for Marduk. The track "Death March" on Marduk's "Plague Angel" album and the track "1651" on the "Rom 5:12" album. Here, just as with Nordvargr, we have history that goes back beyond the formation of Arditi. We both like what Marduk do and the people of Marduk like our work. They also live nearby so cooperation was inevitable in a way. Chain D.L.K.: What are the bands or artists you appreciate the most and why? Arditi: I have a tendency to like artists that have a message (beyond the regular "here we are, bring out the booze and women"). Some artists whose work I appreciate are Puissance, Blood Axis, Herr and Von Thronstahl. Chain D.L.K.: What's next for the Arditi? Arditi: At the moment, we are already working on new material for our album. We have no other relevant plans at this point.
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