Motihari News – Motihari Brigade, previously an obscure rock band, recently rocketed into public awareness following a barrage of attention from several alternative media outlets supportive of the Russian state.
While band members welcome the growing notoriety, it has also left them under a cloud of angry suspicion and controversy.
Some previously loyal fans have expressed discomfort with the band’s newfound infamy. However, the rising wave of publicity has also won over new followers excited by the freshly subversive image.
Band member Eric Winston denies that any political agenda should be assumed to exist in recent material, explaining that frequent references to “political revolution” are “mere coincidence.”
“To the extent that many of the songs promote a bit of a revolutionary flavor,” argues Winston, “It is balanced by the fact that there is a significant consumer demand for such content and we are marketing to that niche.”
Condemnation from accepted mainstream media outlets has been swift.
“People should be aware that they are being duped by hype initially generated from questionable sources and purveyors of fake entertainment supported by the Russian state,” wrote New York Times columnist Krug Paulman.
However a spokesperson for the news agency RT America maintained, “In this case the denial of ties to Russia is actually based on underlying fake news alleging such ties to begin with, which we also deny.”
Sources from within the intelligence community, quoted anonymously in the Washington Post, have flatly rejected denials that there had not been any such coverage, saying the lack of actual coverage is irrelevant to the coverage alleged.
Due to the overwhelming controversy, the band has now hired its own Director of Intelligence-Publicity, Dimitri Rascalnikov. He commented, “The idea that this band has any ties to Russia is simply ridiculous, and yet another example of the seemingly endless trail of propaganda lies and shameless decadence of the West.”
The “Motihari Brigade” controversy has now grown to the extent that a spokesperson for the Russian government even commented, “”The West must take responsibility for its own failures in producing the conditions which gave rise to a popular audience for this band.”
It’s still too early to tell what affect any of these assertions and denials may ultimately have on public opinion. Some who are clearly upset by the music’s dangerous political leanings have vowed to take online revenge at the band’s website www.mbrigade.com
Hackers threaten a denial of service effort to crash the band’s website with frequent visits to overwhelm servers through massive download purchases of the band’s recordings. They also plan attacks by demanding excessive streams, shares and follows through Spotify and Apple Music. Such an escalation to “entertainment warfare” could produce unpredictable results.
