RaHoWa (band)

RaHoWa (band)

RaHoWa (alternatively RAHOWA or Rahowa) is a defunct Canadian White supremacist band that played goth metal with some elements of neo-classical metal. 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.

Members

The band was founded by George Burdi using the pseudonym George Eric Hawthorne. Burdi was a white supremacist, and at one time the Canadian 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 street riot that followed a RaHoWa concert in Ottawa in 1993.

Rahowa's first album displayed a typical post-Oi racialist punk/metal sound, however, influences such as Moonspell, Type O Negative, Current 93, Danzig and neo-classical and epic metal influences crept into the picture on their second album, Cult of the Holy War, which received (though grudgingly) some good mainstream reviews and comment. It can be surmised that the band may have had more mainstream metal success if they would have dropped the racialist stand and lyrics. Burdi later served a jail sentence and renounced racism.

Burdi now plays in a non-political band called Novacosm.

Original 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 (Synthesizer)
*Jim Jones (Bass)

New members

After their second and last album "Cult of the Holy War" was recorded, two new members added live support:
*Mike Nochtem (Drums)
*Eric Wolf (aka Eric Fairburn) (Rhythm Guitar)

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.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

External links

* [http://www.nazi.org.uk/rahowa/rahowa.htm RAHOWA's second album Cult of the Holy War in mp3]
* [http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3131137730609786188 Video of a RAHOWA gig on Google Video]
* [http://www.myspace.com/Novacosm Novacosm myspace page]
* [http://www.novacosm.com/ Novacosm band website]
* [http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/vh1_news_special/56815/episode_videos.jhtml Leaving Racism Behind] Video Interview. George Burdi talks about leaving hate behind.
* [http://www.resistance.com Resistance Records] Resistance Records, the label previously owned by George Burdi of Rahowa


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