MISTULA : Revelations

Mistula tracks “Pista ng Patay” (Feast Day of the Dead) and “Baptized” (video release version) are now available for download!

Click on the image to go to the updated main site.

Previously an Overplay.com exclusive release, “Pista ng Patay” (Feast Day of the Dead) debuted straight at number 1 on the UK Overplay Charts and Overplay Rock Charts. It has since topped the charts repeatedly on various occasions and has been a consistent chart placer, even to this date.

The almost 8-minute poem/song celebrates the uniqueness of the Filipino Day of the Dead festivities. As bandleader/ chief songwriter/ drummer Lugosi states in a UKEvents.net interview, “… what makes [the feast day of the dead] more unique in the Philippine setting is the powerful contrast of the events that literally bombard your senses. Because amidst the solemnity, and the prayers, and the lighting of candles, you also get the endless food tripping, and the late night karaoke singing, and the gambling with playing cards, and the trips to the beaches… it’s one big party. A time of excess in a time of quiet internal meditation.” And nowhere is the play on contrasts more evident than in the jumpy, constantly-shifting, foot-stomp, hip-swaying, then headbang-inducing arrangement of this epic track.

The now-downloadable version of “Baptized”, on the other hand, was first heard on the band’s second music video, which premiered exclusively on Mistula’s Channel V AMP site.

Click on the image to be redirected to Mistula’s AMP site.

“Baptized”, the music video, was conceptualized and fully animated by Mistula disciples, design director Eric Sanchez and director of photography Mike Fallarme of Lube Studios. The video has since enjoyed airplay on MTV Philippines and local music channel, MYX.

Mistula’s “Pista ng Patay” and “Baptized” — Download! Download kayo diyan!*

*similar to what street hawkers (who swarm cemeteries during the day of the dead) would shout to peddle their goods