But have you tried running Doom.exe yet?

That part where the constellation of cybershits all over the country suddenly went Maximum Overdrive and plowed into all the nation's public libraries and burned all the books was pretty impactful.

It got too weird to watch after the starlink satellites started shooting laser beams to blind anyone who voted blue. I had to learn from my kids, who kept watching, about the parts showing the compulsory Neuralink implants and subsequent shock-induced enslavement.

Believe it or not, I think the Christian Science Monitor puts out good articles. I'm not religious. I'm also not in the current US conservative camp. It's too bad it's paywalled. But the few articles I've read actually seemed nicely nuanced, pretty balanced, and interesting.

The Things We Make by Bill Hammack is engaging and talks about the history of engineering as its own pioneering thing (and not just a practical application of scientific discoveries).

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is pretty engaging.

1491 by Mann is a particular favorite of mine.

I guess I believe in quantum mechanics in the immediate nanoscopic realm and diffusive entropic dominance in the long-term gigantosphere. Hard to say which side Gravity will favor...

I always liked this Faye Wong song. Not hard enough to be metal, but I think it's still edgy and kind of haunting.

No Lacuna Coil?

Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil. Does Blackmore's Night count? Actually, I don't know if any of these technically count as metal. But I like them anyway.