Freddy Lim: Taiwanese Heavy Metal Musician Appointed Ambassador to Finland

Chthonic Vocalist Freddy Lim is the New Taiwanese Ambassador to Finland

Metal is often a rebellion against politics, so it’s always fascinating to see the two worlds collide. The most recent example of this comes from Taiwan, where Freddy Lim—vocalist for death metal band Chthonic—has been appointed as Taiwan’s new ambassador to Finland. Notably, Lim is a longtime politician who served two terms as a member of Taiwan’s legislature, from 2016 to 202. He is considered to be the first ever metal musician to become a me…

Freddy Lim: Taiwanese heavy metal musician appointed ambassador to Finland

Musician is lead vocalist of heavy metal band Chthonic

The frontman of the Taiwanese band, founded in 1995, is a leading figure in his country's politics, as well as expert on human rights and international issues

Freddy Lim founded the band ChthoniC, and it's no accident he was sent there.

He’s a Heavy Metal Musician, and Taiwan’s New Envoy to Finland

Diplomatic appointments do not usually excite the world’s metalheads. But when Taiwan on Monday named the frontman for a band known as “the Black Sabbath of Asia” as its envoy to the heavy metal mecca of Finland, rockers on multiple continents rejoiced. “Because if you’re gonna be an ambassador to any Scandinavian country, you better be in a metal band,” the Brooklyn-based publication Metal Injection wrote. The choice of Freddy Lim, founder and …

A leader of the Chthonic group, the Taiwanese rocker has just been propelled as the main representative of the island in the Scandinavian country, for a position equivalent to that of ambassador. Less surprising information and rock-roll than it seems, Freddy Lim also has a long-standing career as a political leader and diplomat.