Where classical music stresses form and style, heavy metal is all about volume and tempo, and Freddy loved both, despite the apparent contradiction between the two. He found a strange kind of balance between the two when in university he started listening to black metal.
古典音樂講求格律與編制，金屬追求速度與音量，這兩種他所鍾愛、卻狀似矛盾的音樂類型，最後卻在他大學時代大量聆聽的「死黑金屬」裡取得奇異的平衡點。