...when you look at any messy real-life setup and immediately think, “this needs more belts.”

If you want something less ambient and more driving/aggressive, I’d go with industrial metal and drum & bass instead.

Rammstein definitely works for the “heavy machinery” side of Factorio, and for the faster, hyper-efficient factory mood I’d add stuff like Pendulum, Noisia, The Prodigy, Celldweller ...

It looks like you posted the Steam cloud log, not the actual Factorio log. The error message itself points to a corrupted base game sprite file, so this probably is not a mod issue at all.

I would try this:

Verify files in Steam again
If it still fails, uninstall the game
Then manually delete ...