Ken Owen

Ken Owen (2009)

Ken Owen (* 23. April 1970 in Wirral , England ) is a British Metal - drummer . He became famous as a co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass .

biography

Ken Owen was born in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral , Merseyside . He has been friends with Bill Steer , who later co-founded Carcass, since primary school . As a teenager , Owen decided to play the drums, and his role models are Deen Castronovo and Neil Peart . In 1985 he was one of the founders of the Carcass music group. In the same year he met Jeff Walker of the Electro Hippies in a record store in Liverpool , who in 1987 became bassist for Carcass. Owen recorded five studio albums with the band until Carcass first broke up in 1996. After the separation he founded the Blackstar project together with Jeff Walker . Blackstar played a mix of traditional heavy metal and hard rock , but split up after the 1997 album Barbed Wire Soul was released. In 1999, Owen suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and went into a coma for ten months . After a successful brain operation in March 2000, he was hospitalized until February 2001. Then a rehabilitation process began, during which he had to learn to walk again and train his short-term memory. In the spring of 2003 he started playing drums again and contributed some vocal passages to Jeff Walker's solo album Welcome to Carcass Cuntry . After Carcass reunited in 2007, Owen appeared on a few shows, such as B. at the Wacken Open Air 2008, despite his health problems with a drum solo.

Discography

Carcass

→ see Carcass # discography

Blackstar

• Barbed Wire Soul (1997)

Jeff Walker

• Welcome to Carcass Cuntry (2006; spokesperson for The Man Comes Around )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ken Owen. (No longer available online.) In: Garry Sharpe-Young's Rock Detector. MusicMight.com, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved April 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Interview With Ken Owen for earache.com. (No longer available online.) Earache Records , May 30, 2003, archived from the original on January 1, 2010 ; accessed on April 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.