Sorry, you got trapped in drafts for a while.
I think most people have the wrong idea about what makes makes a good snare, especially in death metal. Everyone likes to go on about how huge a snare is, but a lot of the time, there's just too much snare in the snare. Too much spring, too much tail. When you're playing super fast, like blast beats or gravity blasts, all that tail end builds up in the mix, and occupies quite a lot of the same frequencies your guitars are going to take up. So if your snare is, for example, tuned slightly off, or the springs aren't tightened properly, you get a lot of waste noise sitting around in the mids drowning everything out. So what might sound beefy in soundcheck can be extremely difficult to balance in practice.
There's also the actual timbre of the snare. It can't be tuned too low or it tends to punch a hole in the mix, and it can't be tuned too high or it will sound at odds with the timbre of the rest of the kit. If you want an example of the latter, Hate by Thy Art Is Murder is my go to. Everyone praises the snare in particular, but personally, I think it's tuned too high to work in the mix. It has no punch because all the low end has been tuned or EQed out of the actual impact, leaving just the high end snap and a tail end
Good snares that make me happy in no particular order:
Deflorate by The Black Dahlia Murder
God-tier classic drum performance, heightened but a near perfect snare tone. That opening blast beat section is like, one of my absolute favourite 10 seconds of music ever.
Periphery production is always superb, but the drum production on P3 just sits so perfectly in the mix. The snare is so clear and always packs a punch, but the resonant frequencies never crowd the EQ.
Flying the Black Flag by Shadow of Intent
Bruce Butler is probably my favourite drummer out there right now. Dude's technique unparalleled. Maybe not the fastest, but such an insanely versatile and varied drummer who just knows the perfect way to play anything. Because those ghost notes go so fucking hard, and add so much texture to the mix. TONIGHT. MY BABY. TONIGHT.
Bonus: Ken Bedene's live snare is the most absurd thing I've ever heard and I don't understand why I works but it fucking works
