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Italian alternative metal band Violet Blend has dropped its new full-length Demons and revealed a music video for the song "La Donna Mobile", taken from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto opera. In the video, Violet Blend is conducted by world-famous maestra Gianna Fratta at the historic Teatro Verdi in Firenze, Italy.
Demons, released on 1 April via Eclipse Records, contains thirteen hard-rocking tracks that personify discontent, passion, beauty, and rage. The lyrical subject matter of the album explores the human soul by investigating its contradictions and ambitions. The album was produced by Alessandro Del Vecchio (Quiet Riot, LA Guns, Nanowar of Steel). Singles from the album include the powerful debut "Rock DJ", which describes the primordial sense of joy and freedom that music transmits. The second single, "Among All These Fools", is about asking the music to guide you through some wicked people that try to surround you and prevent you from reaching your goals. The third single, "Need", is about a situation of great uncertainty, where you must decide if you should abandon the old life for a new one. The last single, "La Donna Mobile", is part of a prominent social campaign to raise awareness against discrimination and gender-based violence, featuring AIDOS (Italian Association of Women for Development) and the Municipality of Florence, Italy. Altogether, Demons is an exciting record with something for everyone, from the superlative vocal to the rhythm chops, which seem to echo the true pulse of the world. Get ready to rock!
"As a classical musicologist, I've always had to study and deal with music written by men, where women were always secondary characters with little to think or say," says lead vocalist & composer Giada Celeste Chelli. "'La Donna è Mobile' is one of the most famous arias of 19th-century Italian opera, but I realized that very few people really knew its meaning. It is misogynist and discriminatory, and even if it was written during the 19th century, I find it terribly current. We wanted to underline the importance and relevance of a reflection on the role of women, focusing on the world of work, where still today there is a dangerous and frightening gender gap. With this project, we wanted to gather and show the public the testimonies of these wonderful women that work and succeed in professions that are socially still linked only to men. We asked women to help us spread a message of gender equality and the women responded!"
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