Grim, Wagnerian bombast from this side-project from Christoph Ziegler, the guy behind the dark ambient/black metal project Vinterriket. As Atomtrakt, Ziegler forges a combination of bleak neo-classical ambience, symphonic elements, pounding industrial rhythms, and samples from WWII propaganda films, a sound that I'm well familiar with, following as it does in the footsteps of various Cold Meat Industries outfits, early In Slaughter Natives, Puissance, Toroidh, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, early Von Thronstahl, H.E.R.R. and Der Blutharsch. Where Atomtrakt slightly differs is in the distorted vokills, which come out as harsh and blackened rasps, very black metal-esque, and which give the tracks that they appear on an ugly, feral feel. It's an evil brand of martial industrial, the soundtrack for approaching nuclear blast waves, global plagues and incinerated cities. Nuklearchetyp is the second album from Atomtrakt, and only half of the tracks feature those blackened blown-out shrieks; the other half of the album is entirely ambient, long tracks of soundtrack-style strings and brass, dark orchestral synths, woodwinds, distorted spoken-word samples, droning organs, and groaning cellos over a battalion of pounding, martial tympani drums. Majestic blackened Teutonic industrial that follows a recurring minor-key motif that reappears throughout the album, and drifting on a black tide of swirling, drifting keys that are unsurprisingly very similar to the bleak wintry synth-ambience of Vinterriket. You can practically feel the ash drifting off of this music. Nuklearchetyp is limited to 1000 copies and includes an enhanced portion of the disc that has a video for the track "Eisenkerker".