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Exploring the thrilling, dangerous, often tragic expeditions of some of the world's most determined adventurers.

The Ends of the Earth

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The Franklin <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/franklin-expedition-ship-watson-ice-ghosts/" target="_blank">Expedition</a> was a British arctic exploration mission designed to find and map the Northwest Passage along the northern coast of Canada. Sir John Franklin, who headed the expedition, left England&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lKkuuKi3-RMC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=Sandler,+Martin+(2006).+Resolute:+The+Epic+Search+for+the+Northwest+Passage+and+John+Franklin,+and+the+Discovery+of+the+Queen%27s+Ghost+Ship.+New+York:&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi6sb-kmNDVAhUH4WMKHWEtA50Q6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&amp;q=erebus&amp;f=false" target="_blank">with two ships</a>, the Erebus and Terror, on May 19, 1845, and&nbsp;after brief stops off the coast of Scotland and in Greenland, the ships set off into the wilds. His ships were&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lKkuuKi3-RMC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=Sandler,+Martin+(2006).+Resolute:+The+Epic+Search+for+the+Northwest+Passage+and+John+Franklin,+and+the+Discovery+of+the+Queen%27s+Ghost+Ship.+New+York:&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi6sb-kmNDVAhUH4WMKHWEtA50Q6AEIJjAA#v=snippet&amp;q=July&amp;f=false" target="_blank">last seen by Europeans</a> in July 1845.&nbsp;

In 1850, a <a href="https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/john-franklin-final-north-west-passage-expedition-1845" target="_blank">mission</a> to discover the fate of the Franklin Expedition found the graves of crew members John Torrington,&nbsp;William Braine, and&nbsp;John Hartnell in far northern Canada. In 1984, the <a href="https://owlcation.com/humanities/johntorrington" target="_blank">bodies were exhumed</a> to determine the cause of death. Because Torrington was the first casualty of the expedition, it was thought that determining his cause of death would give some insight into what happened to the rest of the crew. The preserved bodies of the Franklin Expedition took their secrets with them&nbsp;however.

The British Arctic Expedition That Left Behind Perfectly Preserved Corpses

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The Franklin Expedition Left Behind A Trail Of Eerily Preserved Bodies

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Leave it up to <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/reasons-blumhouse-is-super-smart/lyra-radford" target="_blank">Blumhouse</a> Television to decide the world is ready for a Tremors TV reboot. Yes, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-kevin-bacon-movies-list/reference" target="_blank">Kevin Bacon</a>'s Tremors, the gonzo horror-comedy about mammoth underground predatory worms slaying the kind folk of Perfection, NV. As far as TV reboots of movies go, it might not seem like an obvious choice, but Tremors has a lot of cultural capital, having entered the canon of cult classic movies thanks to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-02/entertainment/ca-1494_1_internal-affairs" target="_blank">runaway success</a> on VHS after a <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tremors.htm" target="_blank">relatively poor showing</a> in theaters (despite&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tremors/" target="_blank">strong reviews</a>).&nbsp;Though tentatively labeled a 'reboot,' the TV project may&nbsp;be a Tremors sequel, given the information available as of June 2017. Kevin Bacon is on board, and the Graboid worms are back in action. Details are a bit vague, but there's enough info out there to get fans of the original film excited for the return of&nbsp;Valentine McKee&nbsp;(Kevin Bacon) and those wide-open American West vistas (oh, and the giant worms).&nbsp;

A Blumhouse 'Tremors' Reboot Starring Kevin Bacon Is Coming To TV

Punk

The American South is a brutal place. The heat, the humidity. The swamps, alligators, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/world-and-_39_s-top-most-poisonous-and-deadliest-snakes/darshan-baruah" target="_blank">poisonous snakes</a>, and spiders. The goddamn bob cats. And that's to make no mention of its <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/racism-kept-alive-post-civil-war/setareh-janda" target="_blank">dark history</a>, which includes slavery;&nbsp;brutal violence between numerous Native American tribes and European invaders settlers;&nbsp;the savagery of the Civil War;&nbsp;rebels and racist gangs murdering, harassing, and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/how-did-the-freeing-of-the-slaves-work/kellen-perry" target="_blank">suppressing&nbsp;African Americans</a> for generations;&nbsp;the Trail of Tears;&nbsp;the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-brutal-hatfield-mccoy-shenanigans/katherine-ripley" target="_blank">Hatfields and&nbsp;McCoys</a>; and Hurricane Katrina. Add to that&nbsp;the neo-Gothic aesthetic of New Orleans, and you've got yourself the perfect elements for the furnace in which some of the best American metal bands were formed. Behold: the greatest metal bands from the South.&nbsp;The best Southern metal bands count among their ranks some of the best –&nbsp;and most influential – metal bands&nbsp;from anywhere in the world. The NOLA scene, soaked in the swampy waters of the bayou, pumps out slow, titanic riffs that might cave your head in, and it has produced some of the heaviest Southern bands&nbsp;like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/sludge-metal-bands-and-musicians/reference" target="_blank">sludge masters</a> Down, Crowbar, and Eyehategod. Georgia is no slouch, having churned out some of the best psychedelic and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/stoner-rock-bands-and-musicians/reference" target="_blank">stoner</a> metal you'll ever hear compliments of Mastodon, Baroness, and Kylesa.&nbsp;And that's just the surface of the murky, ominous waters of Southern American metal bands. Scroll down to scope out the best heavy bands from the South.&nbsp;

Best Metal Bands From The American South

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The 30+ Best Southern Metal Bands of All Time

Studying Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock, whose six-decade career is one of the most influential in the history of filmmaking.

Literally Hitchcockian

Old Hollywood

It goes without saying <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-alfred-hitchcock-movies-list/reference" target="_blank">Alfred Hitchcock</a> is one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-oscar-worthy-directors-of-all-time" target="_blank">great filmmakers</a> of all time, and among the best popular artists of the 20th century. He's one of the few directors to have what's essentially a genre named after him (Hitchcockian,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/movies-and-films-directed-by-federico-fellini/reference" target="_blank">Fellini-esque</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/quentin-tarantino-movies-fan-theories/anncasano" target="_blank">Taratino-esque</a>,&nbsp;Spielbergian, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/stanley-kubrick-shared-universe-theory/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Kubrickian</a>&nbsp;are the others that come to mind). From the tone of his films to his appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director created an image for himself as a droll, darkly comedic master of the macabre, a man very different from the one you might see in the candid Alfred Hitchcock photos presented on this list.&nbsp;If you've ever wondered what Alfred Hitchcock&nbsp;in real life was like, you're in luck. The pictures of Hitchcock compiled here show him socializing with <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/actors-in-the-most-alfred-hitchcock-movies/ranker-film" target="_blank">actors</a>, goofing around, dining with his family, and even getting married. As with many historical Hollywood photos, they expose a side to screen legends not often seen, thanks to the extreme control over&nbsp;public image exerted by studios and publicists. Check out these photos of Alfred Hitchcock just being himself, and leave a comment below with your favorite of his films, if you're so inclined.&nbsp;

Photos Of Alfred Hitchcock As You've Never Seen Him Before

20 Hilarious Photos Of Alfred Hitchcock You've Probably Never Seen

Travel

If you're into <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/delicious-anime-food/nida-sea" target="_blank">Japanese cuisine</a> and sushi culture, chances are you've assumed there's a giant Tokyo fish market that acts as a hub for the mega city's&nbsp;restaurants buyers, local markets, and amateur chefs. You might even know that market is&nbsp;called&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukiji_fish_market" target="_blank">Tsukiji fish market</a>, and that it's the largest wholesale seafood market in the world, and one of the largest wholesale markets of any kind. Given the importance of fish and seafood in <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/craziest-japanese-snack-foods/joanne" target="_blank">Japanese food</a> and culture, it makes sense such a place exists; chances are, if you've eaten out in Tokyo, some of your sushi ingredients came from Tsukiji.&nbsp;As these Tsukiji fish market photos show, the grandest of all&nbsp;Japanese fish markets is a complex, lively place. It consists of an inner market, where wholesale fish are sold, sometimes at auction, and prepared for sale in the outer market, and an&nbsp;outer market, which is a combination of wholesalers and other vendors and restaurants. The market opens at 3:00 a.m,&nbsp;most days, handles hundreds of&nbsp;varieties of seafood, employs tens of thousands of people, and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2014/10/30/relocating-worlds-biggest-seafood-and-fish-markettokyos-tsukiji-is-contentious-move/#359e052c4510" target="_blank">generates billions</a>&nbsp;in revenue each year.For <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-types-of-sushi-rolls/ranker-food" target="_blank">sushi</a> and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-sushi-fish/ranker-food" target="_blank">seafood aficionados</a>, the photos on this list will surely whet your appetite. Vegetarians may see it more as a&nbsp;grotesque panoply of pain, violence, and suffering, as fish are impaled, eviscerated, and cooked alive.&nbsp;

Super Nifty Pictures From The Tsukiji Fish Market

26 Super Nifty Pictures From The Tsukiji Fish Market

The <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/liberation-of-paris" target="_blank">Liberation of Paris</a> began on August 23, 1944, and was complete on August 25, when French general&nbsp;Jacques Leclerc&nbsp;rode into the city at the head of the&nbsp;French 2nd Armored Division and the US&nbsp;4th Infantry Division. Over the course of three days, as French and American soldiers advanced on the city, members of the French Resistance liberated prisoners from German jails, created lines of defense against retreating German soldiers, and launched strategic attacks on German strongholds. The Liberation of Paris photos on this list are alive with camaraderie between soldiers and citizens, the ebullition of the masses, and a uniquely French sense of defiance. They&nbsp;show not only what happened during the liberation, but in part what life was like in France during World War II.&nbsp;

The Nazi occupation of France <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris" target="_blank">began on June 22, 1940</a>, with the signing of the&nbsp;Second Compi&egrave;gne Armistice. The four-year German residency in Paris <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-history-of-paris-during-nazi-occupation/2014/08/29/fce9e112-222c-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html?utm_term=.85b1dc575f47" target="_blank">left a dark stain on Parisian memory</a>, as many French citizens, especially wealthy and powerful ones, were complicit in its execution. However, while Nazis cavorted with sycophantic aristocrats and bourgeoisie, a self-organized underground movement, the French Resistance, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance" target="_blank">waged guerilla warfare</a>, collected intelligence to pass to Allied agencies, published newspapers, and committed acts of subterfuge. Free France, a government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle, also fought the Nazis as part of the Allied forces.&nbsp;

The photos of World War II France on this list show the armies that arrived to liberate Paris from Nazi control and the brave, selfless resistance members who waged a dogged campaign against the Germans at great personal cost. Let the historical photos of Paris commence.

29 Rousing Photos Of The Liberation Of Paris From Nazi Control

29 Historical Photos Of The Liberation Of Paris

Lists about the real, terrifying, brutal lives inside gangs around the world.

What's Up, Gang?

Historical Photos

The most prevalent pop culture images of gangs in Los Angeles can be traced to the proliferation of gangsta rap in the late 1980s, when NWA, led by Ice Cube, Eazy-E,&nbsp;Dr. Dre, and MC Ren burst out of Compton with vivid, aggressive descriptions of&nbsp;drugs, police brutality, urban plight, and economic depression. The popularity of gangsta rap gave rise to a new movie genre, <a href="/list/best-hood-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">Hood films</a>, about the conditions described by the music. Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society led the charge, winning critical acclaim and finding box office success. Part and parcel of this milieu was the&nbsp;<a href="/list/la-riots-1992-photos/will-gish" target="_blank">Los Angeles riots</a>.

The popularity of Hood films and gangsta rap, as well as international media coverage of the Los Angeles riots, put a&nbsp;spotlight on gang culture in southern California that titillated white people, the media, and capitalists eager to package the culture&nbsp;with its gritty &quot;realness,&quot; lurid violence, and desperately American ethos, which held echoes of the Old West in its wildness and veneration of strength, force, and masculine archetypes. LA gang photos are&nbsp;a testament to lurid mainstream obsession with the effects of systemic failure and an inability to examine the causes of sweeping social problems, only its victims and their desperate actions.&nbsp;

The 1980s were hardly the beginning of gangs in Los Angeles. Gang culture in LA can be <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/gangcolor/madness.htm" target="_blank">traced to the 1920s</a>, when groups of Black and Latino friends created local culture and customs, and got involved in petty crime. The rise of violent gangs <a href="http://www.southcentralhistory.com/gang-history.php" target="_blank">began in the 1940s</a>, when the city&#39;s African American and Latino&nbsp;populations rapidly grew as opportunities to work for the war effort arose. At the time, African American and Latino families were only permitted to live in certain parts of the city, and white gangs, such as branches of the KKK and groups called Spook Hunters, policed neighborhoods to keep Blacks and Latinos out. African American and Latino communities formed their own gangs in response.

In the 1960s, white flight resulted in Black and Latino gangs having no white gangs left to fight. Though gangs&nbsp;occasionally turned on each other, though the emphasis on nonviolent protest promoted by the Civil Rights movement put a stop to gang activity until the 1970s, when revolutionary resistance groups like the Black Panthers, formed from a sense of futility in the wake of the failed promises of equality that flowed from the government in the 1960s, helped re-establish gangs in southern California. These gangs led directly into the conditions described by gangsta rap, as&nbsp;Reaganomics, the crack epidemic, the rapid proliferation of drug culture,&nbsp;and urban blight created the perfect pressure cooker for the development of isolated, highly localized cultures shown in these&nbsp;Los Angeles gang pictures.&nbsp;

21 Startling Photos Of Gangs In Los Angeles During The '80s And '90s

21 Startling Gang Photos From '80s & '90s Los Angeles

History

The 1992 Los Angeles riots seemed like the natural conclusion of decades of urban blight and an obvious manifestation of the&nbsp;social effects of the crack epidemic. Call it one of the most flagrant&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/punk-bands-with-the-best-lyrics/will-gish" target="_blank">consequences of&nbsp;Reaganomics</a>, if you will, and a sad, violent reminder of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-biggest-lapd-screw-ups-of-all-time/sarakate" target="_blank">police brutality</a> and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/racism-kept-alive-post-civil-war/setareh-janda" target="_blank">racial tension</a> in the United States that is often swept under the rug but never goes away, thanks to social and economic disparity drawn along racial and ethnic lines. As these LA riots photos show, despite the inevitability of such social unrest, it's hard to conceive of such large-scale destruction and the militarized response in America's second biggest city.&nbsp;Civil unrest in the United States has a long history, and is deeply ingrained in the nation's social fabric, but has become increasingly rare in an age of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/do-not-resist-and-the-crisis-of-police-militarization" target="_blank">militarized police</a>, social control affected through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex" target="_blank">prison-industrial complex</a>, and a media and political apparatus designed to present images of protest as an actual form of political resistance and action. The <a href="https://foucault.info/doc/documents/disciplineandpunish/foucault-disciplineandpunish-panopticism-html" target="_blank">panopticonic</a> nature of <a href="http://www.antiworld.se/project/references/texts/The_Society%20_Of%20_The%20_Spectacle.pdf" target="_blank">spectacular society</a> turns the lower echelons of social hierarchy against one another, thus preventing mass, united action against the ruling classes and government. Yet, as is evident from&nbsp;historical photos of the Los Angeles riots, such action is not impossible in the US, and can draw attention to long-festering&nbsp;class and race problems that commonly go ignored by lawmakers.&nbsp;The LA&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots" target="_blank">riots erupted</a> in the wake of a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles Police Department officers caught on video beating Rodney King. King, an African American taxi driver, was involved in a car chase with police and, when caught, was assailed by the pursuing officers as a local man videotaped from his balcony nearby. Rioting began on April 29, 1992, and lasted for six days, into May. Over the course of the riots, 55 people died, around 2,000 more were injured, and more than $1 billion in damages done. Interference from the National Guard, Army, and Marines was required to stop rioting and looting, which, while based in South Central Los Angeles, spread throughout the city.&nbsp;

27 Unbelievable Photos From The LA Riots

27 Eye-Opening Photos Of The LA Riots

Lists about life in the Empire of Japan from 1939, at which point it was already at odds with China, to the aftermath of the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki post-1945. 

WWII Japan

Life in postwar Japan, a period that&nbsp;officially lasted from 1945 to 1952, was tumultuous to say the least, as the country rocketed from a state of complete destruction and defeat to a lively <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/criminal-landscape-post-war-japan/will-gish" target="_blank">hive of black market activity</a> and nascent organized crime organizations to, finally, a burgeoning global economic powerhouse. The photos on this list, which span 1945 to about 1950, illustrate the meteoric rise of new Japan, and give some indication of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/japan-after-world-war-2/christopher-myers" target="_blank">what life was like</a> in Japan after World War II.&nbsp;

Surely you already know some&nbsp;stuff you&#39;ll find here - the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/aftermath-of-atomic-bombs-japan/christopher-myers" target="_blank">devastation left in Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a> by the atomic bombs, for instance. You&#39;ll&nbsp;see what Tokyo looked like after <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/japan-at-the-end-of-world-war-2/christopher-myers" target="_blank">fire bombing raids</a> that destroyed huge portions of the city, and photos of discharged Japanese soldiers on their way home.&nbsp;Among the most historically significant images of Japan after World War II contained herein are those of Hirohito&nbsp;meeting crowds of Japanese citizens, at which point an emperor considered a god by man was humanized by an&nbsp;expression of tremendous humility.

Explore 1940s Japan in all its tragedy and glory;&nbsp;these historical photos of Japan immediately after the devastating loss of World War II lay bare the&nbsp;psychology of defeat by visualizing the complete, brutal destruction of so many cities. Though some of these photos were taken before Japan announced their&nbsp;on August 15, 1945, they do a great job of illustrating what life was like on the ground immediately after the war ended.&nbsp;

33 Eye-Opening Historical Photos Of Japan After World War II

33 Eye-Opening Historical Photos Of Postwar Japan

World History

No reason to beat around the&nbsp;borscht: Joseph Stalin was a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/real-cults-of-personality/will-gish" target="_blank">monster</a>. Sure, with that big mustache, those military uniforms, his <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/who-did-these-eventually-famous-kids-grow-up-to-be-/jude-newsome" target="_blank">rugged handsomeness</a>, and such a commanding presence, he was one of history's great daddies, a patrician master of naughtiness prepared to bend the whole world over his knee and spank the bejesus out of it, despite being a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/shortest-world-leaders-from-history/katia-kleyman" target="_blank">relatively short</a> dude. Yet&nbsp;the Soviet leader's most enduring legacy is that of Joseph Stalin, horrible person extraordinaire. As the historical photos of Joseph Stalin on this list attest, he obviously didn't lose any sleep over sending millions to the gulag or starving tens of millions to death.&nbsp;Have you ever wondered what kind of expression a man like Stalin wears when kicking it with Nazis? Wonder no more. That's covered. If you find yourself hankering for historical Stalin photos of him watching parades alongside children like he wasn't one of history's most tyrannical dictators, you're going to love this slideshow. Prepare yourself for a wild pictorial ride through the annals of Soviet history; you'll be amazed how much a guy can smile in the wake of organizing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge" target="_blank">Great Purge</a>, in which as many as three million people died.&nbsp;

20 Historical Photos Of Joseph Stalin Kicking It Like He Wasn't A Monster

Historical Photos Of Joseph Stalin Kicking It

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Metal

It's hard to say what qualifies as real black metal these days. Ultimately, it's all in the eye of the beholder. Regardless of where you fall on what's sonically eligible for the black metal tag, it's hard to argue with the idea that Bandcamp&nbsp;and black metal is a match made in heaven. What's more suited to an abrasive, caustic, extreme, often anti-social genre of music with a long history of underground bands and labels than a website offering limitless music hosting, set-your-own-price sales models, and a direct conduit from artists to fans? Bandcamp is trve&nbsp;kvlt af.&nbsp;The best black metal on Bandcamp is some of the best black metal in the world right now. Artists&nbsp;from the United States to Poland, Germany, and Scotland&nbsp;have created mesmerizing, blistering catalogs of underground black metal available for streaming and direct-from-the-artist purchase on the site. There are also a number of fantastic underground metal labels on Bandcamp, the people who run many of which will friend you on Facebook and help you find even more underground metal (seriously).&nbsp;The rise of Bandcamp has coincided almost exactly with the resurgence of black metal in the popular consciousness, thanks to big, new&nbsp;acts like <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/video/deafheaven-respond-to-hipster-backlash-at-revolver-golden-gods-2014">Deafheaven</a> and Oathbreaker, and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/behemoth-nergal-satan-everything-dear-to-me-interview-leukaemia">unexpected commercial success</a> of established blackened death metal bands like Behemoth. So&nbsp;bust out your corpse paint and vote up the best true underground Bandcamp black metal. Add anything you think is missing.&nbsp;

Mare Cognitum

The Best Black Metal Bands on Bandcamp

The 20+ Best Black Metal Bands on Bandcamp

Punk Is Dead

When punk began in New York City, the only connecting thread in a cacophony&nbsp;of disparate sounds from&nbsp;the likes of Television, Blondie, The Ramones, and the Talking Heads was&nbsp;weirdness. They were outcasts:&nbsp;art school kids, glam-disco-vampires, self-anointed&nbsp;street poets,&nbsp;greasers in leather jackets who longed for the bygone days of Elvis Presley, not particularly concerned with being punk bands with the best lyrics. The scattered freak-flag nature of punk <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_punk_subculture#London">forever changed</a> with the first wave of British bands to adopt the moniker, notably the Sex Pistols and The Clash.&nbsp;&nbsp;Far from the wide-eyed, weirdo positivism and poetry of the New York bands, London kids who adopted punk lived in a&nbsp;socially conservative nation struggling with its post-war identity, a social condition that gave birth to punk bands with political lyrics. There was a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/troubles">brutal campaign of sectarian violence</a> happening a few hundred miles away in Northern Ireland, American commercial influence was expanding throughout the UK, many young people had trouble finding work, and the&nbsp;Thatcher years, lurking&nbsp;just around the corner, promised even worse conditions.&nbsp;All the frustrations of these bands, from Londoners like Sex Pistols and The Clash to Northern Ireland's Stiff Little Fingers, came out through incendiary, sardonic, profane, politically and socially engaged lyrics. The first Pistols and Clash albums are cultural snapshots of England and its youth culture, with song titles like &quot;I'm So Bored with the USA,&quot; &quot;Career Opportunities,&quot; &quot;Anarchy in the UK,&quot; and &quot;God Save the Queen.&quot;&nbsp;Since this first wave of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/london-punk-rock-bands-list/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">British punk bands</a>, the genre has been all about lyrics. Bands from the Dead Kennedys&nbsp;through to Against Me! have touched up issues ranging from nuclear war to police brutality, Reaganomics, and race, gender, and sexuality-based equality, often times with a wicked sense of humor. The likes of Rancid address political and social issues through personal&nbsp;narratives about life in the San Francisco Bay area, while Crass put so much effort into the lyrics it eclipses the relatively pedestrian music and has fans staunchly defending the group with cries of &quot;It's&nbsp;about the lyrics, not&nbsp;the music!&quot;Punk bands with the best lyrics span multiple generations of punk, from bands who were banging it out in abandoned British warehouses&nbsp;in the mid-70s to hardcore and folk influenced American bands that headline ballrooms in the 2010s. There are feminist indie-crossover bands, anarchist punks, Bay Area crust kids, Midwestern goth punks, anti-war ex-soldiers with dayglo mohawks.&nbsp;&nbsp;As any punk worth her salt would tell you, don't forget to vote. So vote up the punk bands you think have the best lyrics.&nbsp;

Rancid

Punk Bands with the Best Lyrics

Ranking Punk Bands with the Best Lyrics

Albums

Definitely Maybe

(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Dig Out Your Soul

Be Here Now

Don’t Believe the Truth

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

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Sergio Agüero

Mesut Özil

David Silva

Christian Eriksen

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Songs

Rock 'n' Roll Star

Don't Look Back in Anger

Supersonic

Some Might Say

Champagne Supernova

Wonderwall

The Best Oasis Songs of All Time

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Looking closer at movies, TV shows, and even characters based on and "inspired by" reality.

Based on a True Story

&quot;Based on a true story&quot;—we see it all the time. It's a marketing tool, a cloying device used to engender empathy for the characters, to bring the audience closer to the story. More often than not, these films are sentimental, inspiring, or heroic. Yet from time to time, we get a film based on a true story that isn't happy, but terrifying. Call it &quot;based on a true atrocity.&quot;In many cases, these films aren't afraid to go all the way—to take the audience on a spirit-crushing journey through disturbing truths about the dark side of human nature.&nbsp;

The Whistleblower

23 Disturbing, Brutal Movies Based on Real-Life Atrocities

Disturbing, Brutal Movies Based on Real-Life Atrocities

Lists about the myths and realities of those who worship the other Big Guy.

Could It Be... Satan?

Satanism

Satanism - it conjures images of darkness, violence, esotericism, ritualistic sacrifice, blood-fueled orgies, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/satanic-songs/christopher-shultz">and generally undesirable anti-social behavior</a>. But what is the religion really about? How do we define Satanism? What do Satanists actually believe? Is Satanism really the same thing as devil worship? Is that kid in a Behemoth shirt actually gonna go home, kill a pig, and drink its blood? Answers to most of these questions, and many more WTF facts - including the Catholic Church's involvement in the creation of Satanism - appear in this brain-tingling list examining the many facets of Satanism.

Things You Never Knew About Satanism

21 Random Things You Never Knew About Satanism

Things all metalheads should know about their favorite bands, artists, and albums.

The Devil's Music

Interesting

Black metal is perhaps the most&nbsp;bizarre, esoteric movement in modern music. The subgenre, a predominantly Scandinavian phenomenon, skyrocketed&nbsp;from the dingy basements of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/until-the-light-takes-us-documentary-norwegian-black-metal/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Norwegian black metal bands</a> to worldwide notoriety on the back of a series of disturbing offenses in the early &#39;90s. The music itself is abrasive&nbsp;and relentless with&nbsp;its iconography, lyrics, and harsh instrumentals.&nbsp;

Surely some of this must be hyperbole? In some cases, yes. But in fact, the annals of black metal are filled with creepy occurrences and bizarre behavior, such as musicians provoking distress&nbsp;with&nbsp;flying animal heads. It&#39;s a rare instance of reality aligning with the imagery and culture projected by an art form, which has perhaps helped black metal experience&nbsp;something of a resurgence in the 2010s. With bands like Deafheaven gaining accolades from hipster tastemakers like&nbsp;Pitchfork and a 2019 feature film based on the book Lords of Chaos&nbsp;starring Sky Ferreira and Rory Culkin (described as <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/at-the-movies/lords-of-chaos-black-metal-film-gets-a-cast-described-as-trainspotting-for-millenial-generation" target="_blank">Trainspotting for millennials</a>), the subgenre is having a moment.&nbsp;

Parents are understandably concerned about the social implications of the genre&#39;s hype. Scientists with&nbsp;Macquarie University&#39;s music lab set out to discover&nbsp;if such&nbsp;apprehensions were warranted by conducting an experiment to test whether black metal&nbsp;desensitizes listeners to violence. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47543875" target="_blank">Their theory</a> essentially states, &quot;Death metal&nbsp;fans are nice people.&quot; By contrasting Pharrell Williams&#39;s &quot;Happy&quot; with Bloodbath&#39;s &quot;Eaten,&quot; researchers found that &quot;the dominant emotional response to [black metal] is joy and empowerment&quot; and fans are not, in fact, desensitized to disaster. Bloodbath&#39;s frontman, Nick Holmes, described his band as the music equivalent&nbsp;of an &#39;80s horror film. There are, however, exceptions to this&nbsp;rule.&nbsp;

Read on to learn about some of the most violent, infamous, and notorious crimes and figures in the history of black metal, and determine for yourself how deeply you want to delve into the dark forests of Northern Europe.&nbsp;

Sordid, Disturbing, Darkly Comedic Tales From The Murky Annals Of Black Metal

Creepy and Violent Stories About Black Metal

Sure, serial killers ~killed~ people, but what did they actually do? Lists about who they murdered, how they did it, and other horrifying facts that will keep you wide awake tonight, shaking your head at humanity.

The Grisly Details

True Crime

Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, is one of America&#39;s most <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/prolific-american-serial-slayers/ranker-crime?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">prolific serial killers</a>, so named because his first five victims were found along the Green River in Washington state. Between killing his first victim in 1982 and his capture in 2001, he murdered at least 49 women, most of them prostitutes or teenage runaways. During interrogation after his arrest, Ridgway admitted to more than 70 murders, though many of these remain unconfirmed. Read on for more creepy and terrifying details about Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.&nbsp;

Creepy And Terrifying Details About the Green River Killer

Terrifying and Horrific Details About the Green River Killer

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