Snowy Shaw, born Tommie Helgesson in 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, Mercyful Fate, IllWill, Notre Dame and Memento Mori. On August 24, 2010, he was announced as the new bassist and clean vocalist of symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir, although a day later he quit and rejoined Therion .

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 Wolf Dream Evil, Amon Amarth, Aggressive Chill, Medusa, K2, XXX, Hardcore Superstar.

Cymbal setup

1. Hi-Hat - Istanbul Mehmet - Radiant 13"
2. Ride - Ride The Lightning - Snowy Shaw signature model 21"
3. crash sweet - Istanbul Mehmet - Radiant 18"
4 Crash - X-Metal 16"
5. Splash - Istanbul Mehmet - X-Metal 12"
6. China Istanbul Mehmet - X-Metal 20"
7. splash rock - Istanbul Mehmet - Radiant 10"
8. China Pang - Istanbul Mehmet - 16"
9. crash X-rubbish 16"
10. Crash X-Cast 20"
11. Crash Rock - Radiant - 18"
12. Ride- Istanbul Mehmet - X-Metal 20"

Most Recently with:
Dimmu Borgir - Bass & Vocals
Therion - Vocals, composer & Art director & Design.
XXX - drums & vocals, main song writer/lyricist and band leader and graphic designer.
Ralf Scheepers - session drummer
Opera Diabolicus - Drums, Vocals & photography and graphic designer.
The CNK & Snowy Shaw - Vocals.