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 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 some good mainstream reviews and comment. Burdi later served a jail sentence and renounced racism, but rumors are speculating that he has renounced his anti-racist stance, and has been in contact with several movement leaders.
Burdi now plays in a non-political band called Novacosm which hasn't been active since 2007.
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