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{{Short description|British drummer}}
{{for|the South African journalist|Ken Owen (journalist)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2016}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Ken Owen
| image            = Carcass 05.jpg
| caption          = Owen in 2009
| birth_name       = Kenneth Malcolm Owen
| alias            = Grume Gargler and Eviscerator of Matured Neoplasm (as listed on [[Reek of Putrefaction]])
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1970|4|23|df=y}}
| death_date       = 
| birth_place      = [[Billinge Higher End]], England
| instrument       = Drums, vocals
| genre            = [[Grindcore]], [[death metal]], [[technical death metal]], [[melodic death metal]], [[techno music|techno]]
| occupation       = Musician
| years_active     = 1985–1999, 2008–present (occasional only)
| past_member_of  = [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]], [[Blackstar (band)|Blackstar]]
| website          = 
}}

'''Kenneth Malcolm Owen''' (born 23 April 1970) is an English drummer. He was born in [[Billinge Higher End|Billinge]] and grew up in [[Gayton, Merseyside]]. He is best known as one of the founding members of [[extreme metal]] band [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]], for which he also handled some of the vocals.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3837/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Carcass|last=Prato|first=Greg|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=18 March 2010}}</ref> After the band broke up in 1995, he started [[Blackstar (band)|Blackstar]], along with two other Carcass members.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p295301|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Blackstar|last=Rivadavia|first= Eduardo |publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=18 March 2010}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
He remains close to Carcass and its members: 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. Jeff Walker has noted Owen's influence on the album ''[[Surgical Steel (album)|Surgical Steel]]'';<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/carcass-still-owe-debt-to-ken-owen|title=Carcass still owe debt to Ken Owen|first=Stef|last=Lach|website=Metal Hammer Magazine|date=23 June 2014 }}</ref> Owen appears on the album contributing some backing vocals, as well as in the music video for ''Unfit for Human Consumption''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/carcass-unfit_for_human_consumption_video|title=Carcass "Unfit for Human Consumption" (video)|website=exclaim.ca}}</ref> In September 2015, he released his first solo album, ''Symbiotic Possibilities'', which is a techno album recorded using Reason Studios software. In 2021, Carcass released their album ''[[Torn Arteries]]'', which is named after a fictional band by Owen during his teenage years.

=== Health issues ===
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 drums.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=99283 |title=Carcass Drummer Slams Magazine Over Award 'Cancellation' |date=18 June 2008 |publisher=[[Blabbermouth.net|Blabbermouth]] |accessdate=18 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606073501/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=99283 |archivedate= 6 June 2011 }}</ref> More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program [[Reason (software)|Reason]] Studios.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

== Discography ==
{{main|Carcass discography}}
*''[[Reek of Putrefaction]]'' (1988)
*''[[Symphonies of Sickness]]'' (1989)
*''[[Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious]]'' (1991)
*''[[Heartwork]]'' (1993)
*''[[Swansong (album)|Swansong]]'' (1996)

== References ==
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[[Category:1970 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:English heavy metal drummers]]
[[Category:British death metal musicians]]
[[Category:Carcass (band) members]]
[[Category:21st-century British drummers]]
[[Category:Grindcore musicians]]


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