i love metal of all variety, but when listening to metal at home, I tend to prefer fast transients, detail, and refinement.The Sound Labs are great for classical and jazz too.
Listening to Revocation’s “Greatest is our Sin” right now on a pair of two month old Sound Lab M645s with the new bass focus panels, and loving it.
The bass isn’t cracking the walls, but I can hear every thing with excellent delineation.
BTW if you want them to play bass right, you need a tube amp. The Sound Labs have a high impedance in the bass (30 ohms) and its hard for solid state amps to make power. As a result, a 100 watt tube amp can keep up with a 400 watt solid state amp (and by that I mean it can make the same measured sound pressures) on that speaker.