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RaHoWa (sometimes RAHOWA) are a defunct Canadian White supremacist band with a loosely based Neo-Classical and Gothic Metal style. The band name is an abbreviation of Racial Holy War. Their lyrics are explicitly racist and violent. This example is from their song "Third Reich".

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

(Some sources give the last line of these lyrics as "Goodness gracious, darn right". Others give the second line as "Kill a gypsy and a colored too." However the version given here is from an interview with George Burdi, and is probably correct.)

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.

They are distributed by Resistance Records, who specialise in white supremacist music. George Burdi, white supremacist who was at the time involved with the Church of the Creator and was one-time owner of Resistance Records, founded and led the band using the pseudonym Eric Hawthorne. Burdi dropped out of the white supremacist movement following a 1997 conviction for promoting hatred and assaulting an anti-racist protestor. He now plays in a multiracial band called Novacosm and has an Asian Indian girlfriend.

RAHOWA was very popular among neo-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.

RAHOWA's original line up was George Eric Hawthorne (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Jon Latvis (Lead Guitar/Piano/Cello/Keyboards/Backing Vocals), Graham Stolz (Rhythm Guitar), Carl Alexander (Synthesizer), Jim Jones (Bass). Their second and last album "Cult of the Holy War" featured three new members; Mike Nochtem (Drums), Eric Wolf (Rhythm Guitar) and an unidentified female member (Violin).

Discography

Studio Albums

File:Rahowadisc2.jpg 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
File:Rahowadisc1.gif 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)

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)

Band Members

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