Snowy Shaw

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Name = Snowy Shaw


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Tommie Helgesson
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Born = 1969
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Origin = Gothenburg, Sweden
Instrument = drums, Guitar, Bass, keyboards, Vocals
Genre = Heavy metal
Black metal
Glam metal
Gothic metal
Punk rock
Horror-shock metal
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1989-present
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Associated_acts = King Diamond, Loud N' Nasty, Mercyful Fate, Dream Evil, Therion, Cans, Notre Dame, Memento Mori, Illwill
URL = http://www.snowyshaw.com/
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Snowy Shaw, born Tommie Helgesson in 1969, is a Swedish heavy metal musician (primarily a drummer), based in the port city of Gothenburg in the west coast of Sweden. He has played with many heavy metal bands, like King Diamond, Dream Evil, Mercyful Fate, IllWill, Notre Dame and Memento Mori. He is currently working solo, after a split from Dream Evil in January 2006. He will be drumming for Deathstars on the January/February 2008 European tour with Korn.

Snowy is adept at playing guitar as well as drums and laterally featured as a primary songwriter in Dream Evil.

In October 2006 Snowy joined the symphonic metal band Therion, singing on the "Gothic Kabbalah" album and participating in the 2007 tour together with already established singer Mats Levén.

Snowy also works as a photographer and designer for bands and artists, and has arranged promotional shoots for bands such as Falconer, Easy Action, Engel, Loud N´Nasty, Passenger, Therion, The Crown, Hellfueled, Nightrage and Wolf.

Timeline

*1989 - Snowy Shaw joined King Diamond, touring America and Europe.
*1992 - Formed the band Memento Mori with Mike Wead and Messiah Marcolin.
*1993 - Joined Mercyful Fate, worked on solo project called Shamens and then Wakan Tanka.
*1994 - Quit all previous band involvements to focus on IllWill.
*1997 - Quit all previous band involvements to focus on his own band Notre Dame, where he did not play the drums but played guitar,bass, keyboards and sang. Another noted member of Notre Dame was "Vampirella", a supposed former girlfriend of Shaw's
*2000 - Was asked by producer and guitarist Fredrik Nordström to join new power/melodic metal band Dream Evil. Refused, but agreed to do some session drumming for the band's first album Dragonslayer.
*2001 - Snowy is hired as session drummer for the solo album of former Europe and Easy Action guitarist Kee Marcello
*2002 - Decided to join Dream Evil as a full member, and toured Europe and Japan with the band. Worked with Them Sluts!, as well as keeping up with his own band Notre Dame.
*2004 - Notre Dame was disbanded after one last show on Halloween
*2005 - Quit Dream Evil to work solo. "CREEPSHOW FREAKSHOW PEEPSHOW", a live recording of Notre Dame in Göteborg (Gothenburg) in 2000 is released by Shaw's own indie label, White Trash Records.
*2006 - Produced and in general offered his help to his friends in the Swedish glam/sleaze band Loud N´Nasty. He played drums on the recording and a few shows. Was hired as singer in Therion. Apart from his singing duties Snowy is hired to design and manufacture everything visual for the stage act and photo.
*2007 - Therion release Gothic Kabbalah and tour worldwide on their 20th anniversary.

Discography

=With King Diamond=

#"The Eye" (1990)

With Mercyful Fate

#"In the Shadows" (1993) (Morten Nielsen recorded the drums, but had to leave; Snowy had just joined)
#"The Bell Witch EP" (1993)
#"Time" (1994)

=With Memento Mori=

#"Rhymes of Lunacy" (1993)
#"Life, Death, and Other Morbid Tales" (1994)

With IllWill

#"Evilution" (1999)

=With Notre Dame=

#"Coming Soon to a Théatre Near you!!!" (1998)
#"Le Théâtre du Vampire" (1999)
#"Nightmare Before Christmas" (1999)
#"Abattoir, Abatoir du Noir" (2000)
#"Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You, The 2nd" (2002)
#"Demi Monde Bizarros" (2004)
#"Creepshow Freakshow Peepshow" (2005)

With Dream Evil

#"Dragonslayer" (2002)
#"Evilized" (2003)
#"Children of the Night" (EP, 2003)
#"The Book of Heavy Metal" (2004)

With Loud 'N' Nasty

#"No One Rocks Like You" (2007)

With Therion

#"Gothic Kabbalah" (2007)

With XXX

Currently Snowy Shaw works with the band XXX(read Triple X) making Glitter Rock.Their debut album,'Heaven,Hell or Hollywood' has been recorded,mixed and mastered by Andy LaRocque in the Sonic Train Studios. They have been signed by King Records/Japan-elsewhere not signed.For more info,go to [http://www.myspace.com/xxxsweden XXX's Myspace]

External links

* [http://www.snowyshaw.com/ Snowy Shaw Official Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/snowyshaw/ Snowy Shaw Official Myspace]