Ken Owen
| Ken Owen | |
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 Ken Owen (middle) in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kenneth Owen |
| Born | 23 April 1969 |
| Origin | Billinge, Lancashire, England |
| Genres | Grindcore, death metal |
| Occupation(s) | Drummer |
| Instruments | Drums, vocals |
| Years active | 1985–1999 2008 2009 2010 2013 |
| Associated acts | Carcass, Blackstar |
Ken Owen (born Kenneth Owen, 23 April 1969, Billinge, Lancashire) is an English drummer. He was born in Billinge, and grew up in Gayton, Merseyside. He is best known as one of the founding members of Carcass, for which he also handled some of the vocals.[1] After the band broke up in 1995, he started Blackstar, along with two other Carcass members.[2] In February 1999, he suffered a brain haemorrhage at home and spent ten months in a hospital slowly emerging from a coma, making it impossible at the time for him to continue playing the drums.[3]
More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program Reason. In 2008, he joined Carcass on stage at the Sweden Rock Festival 2008, Wacken Open Air festival 2008, Damnation Festival 2008 & 2013, 2009 at Bloodstock Open Air and in 2010 at Vagos Open Air to play a short drum solo.
He is currently a student at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in Nottingham.
References
- ↑ Prato, Greg. "Biography: Carcass". Allmusic. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Biography: Blackstar". Allmusic. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ↑ "Carcass Drummer Slams Magazine Over Award 'Cancellation'". Blabbermouth. June 18, 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
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