I now know that Australia has at least three verifiably bad-ass musical exports: AC/DC, Nick Cave, and Destroyer 666.

Destroyer 666: Cold Steel... For An Iron Age

Go buy this album NOW. For years I laughed at the name, only to be missing out on some quality metal. This album has everything I've been craving from a metal record lately: raw-but-not-shitty production, riffs from hell, and atmosphere. In some ways it reminds me of latter-day Immortal; in others, all the good thrash albums from the '80s, cross-bred with black metal and some of the more musically intriguing death metal. Fuck, this is good shit. I need to find more of their albums.