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RAHOWA
OriginCanada
GenresRock Against Communism
Goth metal
Years active1989-1997[1]
LabelsResistance Records
Past members
  • George Eric Hawthorne, aka George Burdi (lead vocals/guitar)
  • Jon Latvis (lead guitar/piano/cello/keyboards/backing vocals)
  • Graham Stolz (rhythm guitar)
  • Carl Alexander (synthesizers)
  • Jim Jones (bass guitar)
    After their album Cult of the Holy War was recorded, three new members were added:
  • Mike Nochtem (drums)
  • Eric Wolf (aka Eric Fairburn) (rhythm guitar)
  • Angelo Ables (tech support)

Rahowa was a Canadian white power rock band that formed in 1990. The band name is an abbreviation of Racial Holy War. The band was founded by lead vocalist George Burdi, who used the pseudonym George Eric Hawthorne. Burdi was a white supremacist, at one time the Canadian leader of the World Church of the Creator, and the owner of Resistance Records, which released the band's material. The songs on their first album had racist and violent lyrics, but the second album was devoid of expletives and racial slurs.

Initially playing a mix of Oi! and hard rock on the debut album Declaration of War, Rahowa changed the line-up and switched to gothic metal with some neo-classical and neofolk instrumentation, citing Moonspell, Type O Negative, Death in June, Morbid Angel, Laibach, Blood Axis, Sol Invictus, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Pouledaris, Wagner, Danzig and Nietzsche as influences [2].

Burdi was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in 1995 for kicking Alicia Reckzin, a former Anti-Racist Action member, in the face during a riot following a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.[3] Burdi subsequently served a jail sentence and publicly renounced racism.

Discography

Studio albums

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)

See also

List of neo-Nazi bands

References

  1. ^ http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/8/4/2/7/pages184278/p184278-12.php
  2. ^ [with "Tracks of Creation"] January 28, 1996
  3. ^ http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2009/01/requiem-for-reckzin.html
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