If you don’t already keep up with Taiwanese politics, now is the time to start. On Saturday, Taiwan elected its first woman president, Tsai Ing-wen, the charismatic cat-lady of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), whose pro-Taiwanese-independence stance potentially spells trouble for the country’s relations with China.*

But Tsai’s historic victory wasn’t the only noteworthy outcome from the weekend’s vote. That might belong to death-metal rocker Freddy Lim, 39, who won a parliamentary seat representing Taipei.

Lim is the frontman of Chthonic, sometimes called “the Black Sabbath of Asia,” and usually appears in public with enough face paint and black leather to pass for a cartoon villain. Now, admittedly, politics may seem like an odd pivot, but Chthonic has been known for political activism for years. The band often performs songs in native Taiwanese, plays classical Taiwanese instruments, and sings about oppression and atrocities against Taiwan’s native people.

“Defenders of Bú-Tik Palace,” for example, is about a failed 1930 uprising against Japanese colonial forces in Taiwan, which led to a massacre of indigenous Seediq people.

Now he’s a member of the newly established New Power Party, which believes that Tsai’s DPP isn’t anti-China enough. (Lim has also served as the president of Amnesty International’s Taiwan branch.) The party grew out of the Sunflower Movement, a massive student-led protest in 2014 over new trade regulations that strengthened Taiwan’s reliance on its massive neighbor.

Supporters attend an election rally of Freddy Lim, a candidate from the New Power Party, in Taipei on January 14, 2016. AFP/Getty Images

“[There] is a strong feeling of alienation,” Lim told The Guardian back in December, “and people feel that the political decisions which are being made haven’t been through any sort of democratic review process. It’s not just students but a lot of citizens who feel politics have nothing to do with them. It is being decided by [President Ma Ying-Jeou] that China and Taiwan will come closer together – against people’s will.”

So last weekend’s election is good news for anyone who identifies strongly as Taiwanese, or who just loves potential conflict. And for the next few years, Lim will be a great model for anyone looking to rock a business-casual ponytail.