RaHoWa

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RaHoWa (sometimes RAHOWA) are a defunct Canadian White supremacist band with a loosely based Neo-Classical metal style. The band name is an abbreviation of Racial Holy War. They released two albums from 1993-1995. Many of their songs had explicitly racist and violent lyrics.

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[edit] Members

The band was founded by George Burdi using the pseudonym George Eric Hawthorne. Burdi was a white supremacist, and at one time the leader of the Creativity Movement and the owner of Resistance Records that acted as the groups distributor. Burdi was lead vocalist. He was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in 1995 for kicking an Anti-Racist Action member Alicia Reckzin in the face during a riot that followed a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.

Burdi now plays in a multi-racial band called Novacosm and has an Asian Indian fiancee Dees.

RaHoWa
Some of RaHoWa's members.
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Some of RaHoWa's members.

[edit] Original members

[edit] New members

Their second and last album "Cult of the Holy War" featured three new members:

  • Mike Nochtem (Drums)
  • Eric Wolf (Rhythm Guitar)
  • unidentified female member (Violin).

[edit] Lyrics

Their lyrics are explicitly racist and violent. This example is from their song "Third Reich" (which takes its music from Great Balls of Fire).

Kill all the niggers and you gas all the jews
Kill a gypsy and a Commie too
You just killed a kike
Don't it feel right
Goodness gracious, Third Reich

The band also played modified Nancy Sinatra covers with new lyrics such as:

These boots are made for stomping
That's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna stomp all over Jews.

[edit] Fans

RAHOWA was very popular among Nazi-Skinheads and their concerts are alleged to have incited violence. In the hours following one gig in Toronto in 1993, several concert goers attacked a Tamil man, beating him into a coma and leaving him permanently disabled.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

Declaration of War (1993) - (37:31) Full-length, Resistance - White People Awake, Triumph Of The Will, Fallen Hero, Race Riot, Third Reich, Solitary (live), Exodus, Victory Day, Avenge Dresden, White Revolution, The Trial
Cult of the Holy War (1995) - (01:03:16) Full-length, Resistance - Preludium In G, Man Against Time, When America Goes Down, March Of The Dead, Hall Of The Heroes, In The Fires Of 1945, The Last Battalion, Anvil Of Crom, Might Is Right, Rahowa, God Is Dead, The Snow Fell, Ode To A Dying People, Rahowa Speech (Hidden Track)

[edit] Singles

  • The Rain Will Come Again (White Pride World Wide Vol. 3)
  • Final Call (White Pride World Wide Vol. 3)
  • When The Boats Come In (Project Tribute - The Flame That Never Dies)

[edit] External links

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