Congratulations to Sinai Beach for dropping the biggest turd in recent memory. The group is going for a hard-core, electronic-infused Fear Factory sound and doesn't pull it off in the least. The non-growled vocals fail miserably, and there is far too much attempted singing for anyone's good. The guitars and drums are remarkable only in their juvenility – it's just one brainless, 4/4 groove after another for the entire length of the album with few changes in style or tempo.

Oh, and speaking of brainless crap that's painful to sit through, the entire album sings Christ's praises in the lamest, most transparent ways possible. Now, if you're going to be a Christian band, I'm all for doing away with the ambiguity that infects almost every Christian band as soon as the popular eye turns on them. If you've got a message, you might as well make it clear. But take a look at this:

"His Chosen Fate"

"Hell is all around me, or at least it seems to be I look to the side of Me: emptiness I look to the other: suffering and loneliness I wonder, can it get any worse? And all of this reminds me of man's gift, turned curse Free will, given to man by God. For He longs to be loved by those who choose. For with free will comes real love, real hate, and the freedom to not be robotically used."

"The Serpent's Letter"

"I send this to hell. In the expression of the hate that is mine. No forgiveness for your lies. So take my two cents. As I give you a piece of my mind. And this is my letter to hell. As they open up Hell's gates to eternally damn you I will be there to spit on you. I long to see your face of pain. To see you flinch in the heat of the flame But one thing will cool you I'll piss on your tortured soul."

And believe me, it doesn't get any better. You'd think just reading the Bible a couple of times would give you a better sense of imagery and verse than is apparent in Immersed, let alone a sense of humility in place of the self-aggrandizement that is all-too-prevalent on the album, but it appears that that's not the case. And the obnoxious way in which the lyrics are applied to the musical formula (i.e. awful, tuneless singing) will only make you seethe with further contempt for Sinai Beach.

Stay as far away from this group as humanly possible, and hope they find grace in the next world, because they haven’t found it in this one. (1/10)