De Zweedse drummer annex songwriter Snowy Shaw (echte naam: Tommy Helgesson, zie foto) is een nieuw project gestart met zanger Mats Leven, bekend van At Vance, Therion, Yngwie Malmsteen, Abstrakt Algebra en vele andere bands aen artiesten. Shaw onthulde dit in een interview met Heavy Mettle Psychosurgery.
"A couple of months ago I started a brand new project together with singer Mats Leven that we're both very very excited about. So far it goes under the working title S&M."
Het bleek al snel dat Shaw en Leven zo veel muzikale invloeden delen dat de drummer het "bijna griezelig" noemt. Beide artiesten menen dat de samenwerking bijzonder gemakkelijk gaat en grote voldoening geeft. Shaw vertelt:
"Prior to this, I haven't had that good experiences co-writing with people. With most people I've worked with in the past we share common ground with a certain music style or a few couple of bands that we both like, but with Mats it's so different, we understand each other completely and can easily refer to a quite varied repetoire with everything from The Sparks, Plastic Bertrand, Abba, AC/DC, Manowar, Sweet, U2, Nazareth, Rammstein, Bowie, Uriah Heep, Accept, Dalbello, Candlemass, Queen, Laibach, Rainbow, Judas Priest, Gary Glitter and Kiss, of course, among many others."
Je kunt het volledige interview met Heavy Mettle Psychosurgery hier lezen.