Welcome to the real world!!
Firstly, if you like fingers, stay with it, plenty use fingers Robert Trujillo of Metallica for one and he is a beast.
Where you have come from is a bass heavy music, so instead of accentuating a big low end, dial it back a bit and give the hi mids a push, but this will depend on where your guitarists are.
Have they got massive humbuckers in Les Pauls pushing a big sound?
If so there will be a sonic space you can occupy and lock in with the kick drum which will push your bass through.
I would steer clear of effects to start, a good clean bass sound will be what you need, especially if your guitars are distorting.
If you listen to Pantera for example, that’s fairly heavyweight, but the bass is clean as a whistle.
Sure you will enjoy this, it’s a great genre