I think I know the sound you're after. First off, the most common bass drum recording error is either too much or too little dampening. In your case, it sounds like too little dampening going on.
For metal sound (and to stay away from the rubber ball sound):
- Mic on the batter side.
- Boost 1k-4k frequencies signals before they are recorded to get more of that "clicky" beater definition sound like Pantera or ...And Justice or what have you.
-experiment and keep repeating until you get the sound you want.
-Use hard beaters (not felt) although the difference may be subtle to your ears, it's the world of difference to the mic.
-You can try those spot pads (you can find at any music stores) you stick on to the batter area of the bass drum to get even more definition. IF that still doesn't work...
-I illustrated a bass drum "click trick" to get that nice, fat clicky sound ready for a mic. This is something I stumbled upon a few years back. Download the image I attached to this post. Basically, you take any old broken drumhead you have lying around, loop pieces of duct tape sticky-side out, stick it on the bass drum batter side to batter side dead center of where your beaters hit. Just don't put tape on your bass drumhead where the residue left behind can catch your beaters.
-Tune the kick drum up or down according to the key the song is in, making sure that the tuning works well with the bass guitar.
-Eq: If you need more bottom end, try boosting 60 to 100Hz. Try rolling off lower mids (300-700Hz) to get rid of a box or bouncy ball-like sound.
-You should try an Evans EMAD head on the batter. It's the quickest way to that beefy "metal" sound out of your kick in my personal opinion and I've tried every bass drum head under the sun on many different kits in pursuit of that venerable metal sound on the quick.
