BIO

Violet Blend are an Italian alternative metal band, featuring extraordinary vocals, rich sonic power, and unbridled energy, founded in Florence, Italy.
The band is made up by Giada Celeste Chelli (lead vocals, piano & orchestration), Ferruccio Baroni (bass & backing vocals), Michel Agostini (drums & vocals).

Tour:
In terms of touring, Violet Blend has performed all over Europe, joining Festivals, such as such as I-Days Festival (Italy), Loverocks Festival (England), Wildfire Festival (Scotland), Eber-Hart Festival (Germany), headlining and supporting many renowned bands such as Radiohead, Garbage, Palaye Royale, Chris Slade (AC/DC), Vinnie Moore (Alice Cooper), Hanabie., etc.

Accolades:
Moreover, the band has won several awards, including Band of the Year 2023 – Great Music Stories (UK), Best Band of the Year 2022 – Metal Liar (USA), Best Rock Band 2022 – Vox Platinum Radio (Mexico), Best Album of the Year 2022 – Heavy Metal Heaven (Italy), Band Revelation of 2019 –  F.I.P.I. – International Intellectual Property Federation, #togetherforthemusic 2020 – Elio e le Storie Tese, Trio Medusa, Cesvi and Radio Deejay, ET Music Prize – Sanremo Rock 2019, etc. 

Music & Advocacy:
The White Mask (2018) record exposed the fallacy of using social media to represent “the self”, in a world where you see millions of masks and very few faces. The presentation of White Mask was preceded by an impressive guerrilla art campaign, with more than five thousand white masks with a painted purple V invading the city of Florence, attracting the attention of citizens and national media, including La Nazione, La Repubblica, Il Mattino, Classic Rock Italia and Radio Freccia, which interviewed them live. Each copy of the album features a real matchbox with the sentence “Burn your mask”.

The sophomore album, Demons  (2022), continues the journey into self-investigation by moving the focus to the more personal, internal mechanism we use to make our own tragic masks. Released worldwide via Eclipse Records, its 13 tracks explore ambitious yet contradictory facades, each represented in the cover art by demonic masks from global traditions — spanning Greek mythology, Chinese culture, and Dante’s literature to the Aztec Empire and Celtic mythography. These masks conceal our raw truths until the glorious, final moment of unveiling for the sake of the soul.

With Demons, the band launched La Donna Mobile (Fickle Woman) – Campaign against gender discrimination and violence, a non-profit initiative supporting AIDOS – Italian Association of Women for Development, in collaboration with the Municipality of Florence and the Department for Equal Opportunities. The project featured over 30 prominent testimonials — successful women excelling in traditionally male-dominated fields — to promote equality and empowerment. To further the cause, the band donated the tracks La Donna Mobile and Need from the album Demons, along with all proceeds from a dedicated event in Florence. Find out more here.

During 2023, Violet Blend released two successful singles, Voices In My Head  and My Head is Broken  feat. Tired Violence and ended the year on a high note by releasing their first live album Live and True. Live and True is an exciting journey that catapults the listener into the center of the band’s live performance.

In November 2025, Violet Blend launched an anti-stalking awareness campaign with the single and video The Reign of Sadness, rooted in the personal experience of Giada Celeste Chelli. The project expanded with Talk or Stalk?, an educational card game developed alongside academic experts to help identify the early signs of toxic behavior, reaffirming the band’s deep social commitment beyond the realm of music. Find out more here.

Violet Blend are an awe-inspiring female fronted band that make us measure our internal landscape differently, they make haunting and glorious musical portraits that personify beauty, discontent, passion, and rage. Their music is exciting and has something for everyone, from the superlative vocal to the rhythm-chops that seem to echo the true pulse of the world.

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Reviews

• (5/5) “When you take away the effects, the lightshow and the visual drama from live shows, some rising bands struggle live to match their recorded product from the studio. The opposite is true of Violet Blend. The voice is so impressive through the live set. Giada has a great range, but the dynamics and emotional power of her vocal really comes alive on this album. I can’t think of many singers whose vocal is quite so strong, on-point and confident on a live album.” – GREAT MUSIC STORIES (UK)
• (8.5/10) “Above all, Giada Celeste Chelli can convince with her singing” – Crossfile Metal (DE)
• (8.4/10) “outstanding vocals, powerful sound and irrepressible energy” – Keep On Rocking (DE)
• (8.3/10) “Vocalist Giada Celeste Chelli brings a lot of freshness to the Rock and Metal scene” – Metalheads Forever (USA)
• (4/5) “Demons is a record that sticks with you… Violet Blend has hit it out of the park” – Pretty Vacant One (AUS)
• (8/10) “Giada Celeste Chelli can convince with her singing, this band brings a lot of fresh air to the rock & metal scene” – Rock Castle Franken (DE)
• (7/10) “A ‘ROCK DJ’ WILL SURELY BE PLAYING THIS PLEASING, RADIO SASS, AS IT’S REALLY EASY TO GET INTO.” – POWER PLAY (UK)
• (3/5) “plenty of radio-ready hard rock singles” – Heavy Music HQ (USA)
• “a must-listen for all, and a valued manifestation of Italian art!” – Metal.IT (ITA)
• “a great band whose music can stand the test of time” – Italia Di Metallo (ITA)
• “The authenticity and raw talent of Violet Blend shines through wonderfully on ‘Live and True’.” – AMPLIFY THE NOISE (AUS)
• “Violet Blend move with agility from punk without excessive pretensions to more intense and elaborate moments (“I’m Only Happy When I’m Drunk”) in which a fusion between narrative and performance is achieved which is something unique.” – METALLUS (ITA)
• “an exciting record with something for everyone” – Allternative (ITA)