CONTROLLED BURN: fire, managed

CONTROLLED BURN opens in the scorched clearing left by everything that came before — and refuses to mourn it. This is NyxFire’s forestry-management record: rage, it turns out, doesn’t have to burn the house down. Aimed properly, it clears the land.

“SULFUR PROTOCOL” and “Combustion Chamber” keep the punk-electronic pressure high; “Filament Discipline” and “COLD DIAL” show the new precision. “No Receipts” burns the ledger entirely.

The thesis rides in the title track: mastery isn’t extinguishing the fire. It’s deciding, calmly, exactly where it goes next.