Nazi Band That Gave Us the Sikh Temple Shooter Down Two Members After Hit-And-Run

Definite Hate’s Andrew Brown is now singing for ice water in Hell while guitarist Edward Brent Rackley – a longtime bonehead POS – is possibly enroute to the same destination.

HALIFAX COUNTY, VA – A hit-and-run car accident claimed the life of a lead singer and hospitalized the guitarist of a neo-Nazi band that at one time included the mass shooter that murdered several persons at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin eleven years ago.

Andrew Brown, the lead singer of the band Definite Hate and his guitarist Edward Brent Rackley were driving to work Sept. 14 on Interstate 95 when at the 160 mile marker crashed with another vehicle that according to one account fled the scene. Brown, 49, was killed and Rackley was reportedly left in critical condition.  Adam James Walling, the driver of the other vehicle was arrested and charged with Felony Death With Motor Vehicle and was incarcerated at the Halifax County Jail in lieu of a $10,000 bond.

Definite Hate was a band associated with the “Hammerskins” the first and most prominent neo-Nazi gang in America that claimed to be skinheads, which was often a source of contention as the skinhead culture was formed by British mods and Jamaican rude boys and had no relation to Nazism. Founded in Dallas,Texas in 1988, the “Hammerskins” at its height boasted chapters around the globe but have not been at visible in recent years. At one time in its history, Wade Michael Page was one of the guitarists for not only Definite Hate but for a number of bands associated with the “Hammerskins”. On Aug. 5, 2012, Page murdered six people in an attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, killing himself after he was shot in the hip by a police officer. A seventh person died from injuries sustained from the shooting in 2020.

Rackley, one of the founding members of Definite Hate in 1998, not only played in other bands with Page including End Apathy along with Ozzie Babbitt on drums, but also roomed with him at one point. He also appeared in a 2002 VH1 documentary about hate music where he touted his band’s name as the Carolina Sons, which was actually the name of Definite Hate’s debut album released in 2001. In the documentary he expressed his violent tendencies to those who aren’t white saying, “Personally, I can shoot them all. I would love to shoot every nonwhite, but that’s not a good way to go about it!” Later in the documentary he praised Sept. 11 as a “good attack” as it targeted Jews. According to news reports, Rackley’s home was searched by the FBI after the Sikh temple shooting. Rackley also has had run-ins with law enforcement including charges of ethnic intimidation.

In April 2016, Definite Hate was scheduled to perform at a concert that was to follow two neo-Nazi rallies that were to be held at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia and in Rome, Georgia. It is not known at this time if they participated in either rally. Two years later, Rackley reportedly won $200,000 in the North Carolina state lottery. His affiliation with neo-Nazi groups were never noted in any articles about his winnings.

A memorial service for Andrew Brown is to be held on Oct 14, between 2-4 at the clubhouse of the Lake Gaston Resort in Valentines, Virginia.