From SPIN Magazine, June 1998 (p. 139)

Metal Machine Music, by Chuck Eddy

(misc. notes about Stabbing Westward and the Hunger)

The Hunger's Texan neighbors Course of Empire are more eccentric.
Telepathic Last Words (TVT) - produced by NIN/Gravity Kills overseer
John Fryer - thrills when the band abandons their Metallica-bludgeon
mode for undulating psychedelic arabesques ("Ride the Static," "59
Minutes") or '70s-Bowie-brand glam ("Captain Control," a jetboy
stardusted cover of the crooner standard "Blue Moon").  Even Course
of Empire's more organic beats feel mechanical in a way that
somehow lends credence to Vaughn Stevenson's nasally vibrated
Internet Age obsessions.

(misc. notes about GLU, Junkie XL, Pitchshifter, etc. etc.)

photo caption: "You lookin' at me?": cyberpunks Course of Empire.