Ken Owen (born
Kenneth Owen, 23 April 1970,
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. After the band broke up in 1995, he started
Blackstar, along with two other Carcass members. 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. More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program
Reason.