Non of the gear in your system has a way of knowing what music you are playing, only you know !
Given that if you go for the warm side of neutral then you will be robbing some of the feeling of Death Metal, it will sound rather boring, exactly opposite of what this type of music should be!. Conversely if your system is on the bright side of neutural then your music will tend to screech at you when no screech was intended and that will bring with it fatigue (yes you can have fatigue even with death metal).
With this type of music I think its even more important to have a very neutral sounding system specially at higher volumes (which I presume is what you are listing at most of the time)
I have nothing against tone control or equalizers provided they are properly designed. such units of course exist but are very costly and you probably have to look into Pro Audio to find a decent one.
But then the issue may become you spending more time adjusting things than actually listening to the music.
IMO it’s better to have a very flat system and just listen to the way the engineer has mixed the tracks. If you don’t like the way a particular album sounds you may listen to it less. Unfortunately you may find a lot of recordings very compressed, but that’s the nature of this type of music.
Given that if you go for the warm side of neutral then you will be robbing some of the feeling of Death Metal, it will sound rather boring, exactly opposite of what this type of music should be!. Conversely if your system is on the bright side of neutural then your music will tend to screech at you when no screech was intended and that will bring with it fatigue (yes you can have fatigue even with death metal).
With this type of music I think its even more important to have a very neutral sounding system specially at higher volumes (which I presume is what you are listing at most of the time)
I have nothing against tone control or equalizers provided they are properly designed. such units of course exist but are very costly and you probably have to look into Pro Audio to find a decent one.
But then the issue may become you spending more time adjusting things than actually listening to the music.
IMO it’s better to have a very flat system and just listen to the way the engineer has mixed the tracks. If you don’t like the way a particular album sounds you may listen to it less. Unfortunately you may find a lot of recordings very compressed, but that’s the nature of this type of music.