Tom Schmitz
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Tom Schmitz is the keyboardist
for alternative metal
band Mushroomhead
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Tom plays the keyboards. Schmotz wears a mask with goggles and a US military-style helmet on it. The mask is a reflection of the x-face, while the helmet and goggles were chosen due to a similarity to his previous "dead" (the black mask era) mask where he wore a black helmet like hat with a pair of welding goggles holding it on just over the brim, and then had the goggle lenses fixed to his face in the Savior Sorrow version of the mask. However, he has recently undergone a transformation as seen in the video for "Your Soul Is Mine." He has abandoned the helmet and goggles, for a beefier and shiny metallic skinned appearance. At the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children era he changed his mask to a yellow one with an black X-Face and a pair of photographic lenses. He now wears a spiked German military style helmet.
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
for alternative metal
Alternative metal
Alternative metal is a genre of alternative rock and heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs and experimental approaches to heavy music.-Origins:...
band Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...
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Biography
Like current and former members of Mushroomhead, Schmitz was a part of local Cleveland band Trelleborg, in which he played bass.Tom plays the keyboards. Schmotz wears a mask with goggles and a US military-style helmet on it. The mask is a reflection of the x-face, while the helmet and goggles were chosen due to a similarity to his previous "dead" (the black mask era) mask where he wore a black helmet like hat with a pair of welding goggles holding it on just over the brim, and then had the goggle lenses fixed to his face in the Savior Sorrow version of the mask. However, he has recently undergone a transformation as seen in the video for "Your Soul Is Mine." He has abandoned the helmet and goggles, for a beefier and shiny metallic skinned appearance. At the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children era he changed his mask to a yellow one with an black X-Face and a pair of photographic lenses. He now wears a spiked German military style helmet.