EDG: Rez Metal’s First War Cry?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I had just gotten out of the Army about a
year earlier or so when I first heard Ethnic g
Generation Ethnic Degeneration also.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Known as EDG Beyter Fans.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Now, these guys didn't sound like any of the of
the native metal bands that I heard previously, and they
didn't sound like the regular powow drums and distortion, and
they didn't come off as a soft cultural pride act
trying to get a little pet on the head by
the hippies. They were fucking hardcore metal out of k Town,
and their music hit like a Glannie fight, you know

(00:35):
that breaks out in the middle of the night, people
fighting over beards.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, Cusswards and Garden Dell over the place. Billy Crawley was.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
The guy that was out on the front guitar, strapped
on voice ripping like Sam Paper, Delton Granson on the
lead guitar, Lauren Anthony on bass, and Curtis wish Yaza
smashing the kit like it Oh the Money Money Bridge together.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't think they were trying to be polished.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
They were raw, jagged, loud, and I think maybe that
might have been the whole point, because if you go
back and listen to the tracks, like resurrection or Code red.
These aren't just songs, their fucking alarm bells.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
That riffage was tribal warfare with distortion.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Crawley's grovels half sermon and half shotgun blast. Really, go
check out the music. I can't play here because the
you know the rights. But when when he screamed about shit, it.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Was about survival. It wasn't metaphorical.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
It was about reds life, addiction, poverty, cops.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Violence, and try to clyde your way out of.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The goddamn reservation system using music as your weapon, your
only weapon.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now, these dudes played hundreds of gigs throughout the whole
time that they were around.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I saw them in Phoenix, but they played between Phoenix,
Ship Rock and everywhere in between, and other times opening
up for big.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Bands like Soulfly.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
So picture this picture this shit isy kids standing around
at a concert, trying to act like they're too cool
for school, but inside they're busting a mental nut over
to what they're seeing. They're watching one of their own
up on stage, sharing the same space as Max Cavolara.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That shit matters, I know to me, Like to this day,
it still blows my mind thinking about that shit, but
I'll be honest. In twenty twenty five, EDG is more
legend than band. Hate to say it. Their old revert
page is.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Still floating around like a grapestone and a digital desert
with tumbleweeds floating by, and you can still find.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Clips of them online. Crawley's still out there, singing.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Acting and even managing restaurants, But EDG itself feels quiet.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Maybe on indefinite hole, I hope not.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
But here's the thing, res metal as we know it
today would not be what it is without them. They
proved you could take the feelings that we all feel
as igy reds kids growing up, well out and a
Whilda boogie and turn it into distortion that's scared the shit.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Out of somebody. They were the first band to musically
say fuck you, we don't need permission, we don't need polish,
We just.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Need volume, and in my book, that's all heavy music
ever really needed.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So thank you, EG hit the stage again, like to
see you now. I'll keep making unauthorized biographies like this.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
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Until next time, chase you fuckers, stay horny later, se

(03:45):
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