Scaterd Few, Sin Disease

Scaterd Few – Sin Disease, Alarma Records (1990)
by Chris M. Short

Simply put, and obviously debatable (discerning music listener, ready your letter to the editor!), the greatest record ever released in the Christian rock subculture is Sin Disease. It is a pure rock record – obnoxious, controversial, loud, confrontational, yet it’s got soul and intelligence, a authentic slab of freaky weirdness where the songs move you physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Sure, the music is a mixed bag – some quite derivative of the late 80s/early 90s L.A. rock scene (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction), and then you have the obvious Bad Brains worship. It’s the dread-locked Bowie-head mystic Ramald Domkus (now he goes by his birth name Allen Aguirre; in 2004 he told me, “I killed Ramald a long time ago.”) screaming like a banshee, gone mad with tongue wagging and eyes bulging that take the songs to the proverbial “other level”.

The lyrical content is intense: tales of street violence, charlatan TV preachers, drugs, judgmentalism, and alienation all wrapped in Evangelical Jesus talk. These words are steeped in real life, focused on the forever battle between spirit and flesh. I still get chills listening to "Lights Out" when Ramald (Allen) wails, "Bang, bang, bang!! They shot him three times in the back of the HEEEAAAAD!" You never had, nor will you ever hear such brutal violence delivered so artfully and so honestly. [Alarma] Chris M. Short

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