It is remarkable how original the sounds on this release are, it would be difficult to find many comparisons for the music contained here. It is amazing how visceral and powerful the moments of Power Electronics intensity are on this release, truly maniac and violent brutality makes itself known here amidst truly beautiful ambient electronic landscapes. - Heathen Harvest

"feeling this current wave of groups, pushed through the contemporary noise scene & spit out the other side with their aesthetics altered to include not just the ultra-gained caterwaul, but more lamimar motion(s - see perispirit, pedestrian deposit) dotting the proceedings to make said all that more effective ...

case in point this debut disc from the cathode terror secretion’Äôs jesse allen & diaphragm’Äôs nick pace ; both responsible for their fair share of sandblasting over the past few years, but here an almost winsome quality opens most of the pieces ; tonal beds of guitar & ambiance that do gradually give way to worlds-end histrionics ... but it’Äôs a slow ride that covers most of the dynamic bases & we’Äôre richer as listeners for having been taken slowly up the mountain before being pushed off the other side ..."- Mimaroglu Music Sales

" The two dudes in Cowards have popped up in a number of New York power electronic and noise outfits, with The Cathode Terror Secretion being the one we've stumbled across before, thanks to their power-noise-grind album on RRR. Cowards are clearly a different beast, although huge voltage blasts of distortion and noise continuously cycle through their impressive Forgotten Resonance disc. Between the noise, Cowards produce beautifully evocative orchestrations for all sorts of resonant droning shimmer, impressionist rumble, and spooky ambience. Growling vocals and distant bursts of infernal vulcanization add cinematic flares of dark ambient drama or a deconstructed form of blackened drone metal with nothing but the spectral pall of the original left behind. Out of this post-industrial moodscaping (think Lustmord, Cranioclast, Yen Pox, and even some Coil tracks), Cowards present a couple of effect strategies for noise intrusion. At times, they slowly build tumultous mechanical howls and aggressively battered noise out of their ominous ambient constructions, but at others, it comes by way of avalanche with textured noises quite literally tumbling from above. In the dynamics of loud / quiet and placid / caustic all presented with remarkable digital clarity, we're reminded of those exceptional Aaron Turner productions - House Of Low Culture, The Lotus Eaters, and Old Man Gloom (well, at least in terms of the loud / quiet thing, as there's no chugging metal riffage to found here). Pretty awesome, but pretty limited."
- Aquarius Records