Snowy Shaw

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Snowy Shaw
Background information
Birth name	Tommie Mike Christer Helgesson
Born	(1968-07-25) 25 July 1968 (age 53)
Origin	Gothenburg, Sweden
Genres	Heavy metal, black metal, doom metal, symphonic metal, gothic metal, power metal, punk rock, shock rock
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1989–present
Associated acts	Dimmu Borgir, King Diamond, , Mercyful Fate, Dream Evil, Therion, Cans, Notre Dame, Memento Mori, IllWill, Nightrage, Sabaton
Website	www.snowyshaw.net

Snowy Shaw (born Tommie Mike Christer Helgesson on 25 July 1968) 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,^[1] Mercyful Fate,^[2] IllWill,^[3] Notre Dame and Memento Mori. Snowy is adept at playing guitar as well as drums. He is a primary songwriter in Dream Evil. In October 2006 Snowy joined the symphonic metal band Therion, singing on the Gothic Kabbalah album and participated in the 2007 tour together with already established singer Mats Levén. On 24 August 2010, he was announced as the new bassist and clean vocalist of symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir, although he was only officially a member for one day then quit and rejoined Therion.^[4]

Discography[]

With King Diamond[]

• The Eye (1990)^[5]

With Mercyful Fate[]

• Time (1994)

With Memento Mori[]

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

With Notre Dame[]

• Coming Soon to a Théatre Near you!!! (1998)
• Le Théâtre du Vampire (1999)
• Nightmare Before Christmas (1999)
• Abattoir, Abattoir 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 First Chapter (EP, 2004)
• The Book of Heavy Metal (2004)
• Gold Medal in Metal (2005)

With []

• (2007)

Produced by Snowy Shaw

With Therion[]

• Gothic Kabbalah (2007)
• Live Gothic (2008)
• Sitra Ahra (2010)
• Les Fleurs du Mal (2012)
• (2007)

With Dimmu Borgir[]

• Abrahadabra (2010)

With XXX (pronounced Triple X)[]

Currently Snowy Shaw works with the band XXX making glitter rock. Their debut album, Heaven, Hell or Hollywood has been recorded, mixed and mastered by Andy La Rocque in the Sonic Train Studios. They have been signed by King Records/Japan. Licensed to Perris Records U.S.A via Snowy Shaw Productions.

With Theatres des Vampires[]

• Moonlight Waltz (2011)

With Snowy Shaw[]

• Snowy Shaw is Alive! (2011)
• (2014)
• (2015)
• (2018)

With Opera Diabolicus[]

• (2012)

With Mad Architect[]

• (2013)
• (2015)

With Dark Embrace[]

• (2017)

With Barndoom med Snömannen & hans vänner[]

• self-titled (2017)
• (2017)

With Poison Pill[]

• Poison Pill (2017)

With Snowy Shaw[]

• (2018)

With Snowy Shaw[]

• (2018)

References[]

Media related to Snowy Shaw at Wikimedia Commons