This is the discography of American session drummer and songwriter Josh Freese. Freese has appeared on close to 500 records. He is an original member of A Perfect Circle and a member of the Vandals as well as Devo. He was the drummer for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008 and again since mid-2025, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 1999. Freese was the new drummer for Foo Fighters from 2023 to 2025.
Discography Solo The Notorious One Man Orgy (2000) Since 1972 (2009) My New Friends (2011)
With The Vandals Fear of a Punk Planet (1990) Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live (1994) Live Fast, Diarrhea (1995) Oi to the World!: Christmas With the Vandals (1996) The Quickening (1996) Hitler Bad, Vandals Good (1998) Look What I Almost Stepped In (2000) Internet Dating Superstuds (2002) Hollywood Potato Chip (2004)
With A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms (2000) Thirteenth Step (2003) Emotive (2004)
As featured artist Year Artist Album 1991 Dweezil ZappaConfessions Tender FuryIf Anger Were Soul I'd Be James Brown 1992 Xtra Large Now I Eat Them Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion1993 Infectious Grooves Sarsippius' Ark School Of Fish Human Cannonball Paul Westerberg 14 Songs Lee VingLee Ving1994 The Daredevils Hate You Seo Taiji and BoysSeo Taiji and Boys III 1995 Possum Dixon Star Maps Juliana Hatfield Only Everything Earl Lee GraceBlackgrass Devo Tank Girl SoundtrackStrung OutSomnombulance Split W/ Blount Wayne KramerThe Hard Stuff MagnapopRubbing Doesn't Help Seo Taiji and BoysSeo Taiji and Boys IV1996 Tracy BonhamThe Burdens of Being Upright Paul Westerberg Eventually CrumbRomance Is A Slowdance Danny ElfmanFreeway Soundtrack Lazlo Bane Short Style 1997 Lazlo Bane11 Transistor Rickie Lee JonesGhosty Head Bic RungaDrive Mary Lou Lord Martian Saints EP Meredith Brooks Blurring the Edges Slider Sudden Fun1998 Princess Destroy The Earth As Soon As Possible (Solo EP, released under another name) Mike Ness Cheating at Solitaire Emm Gryner Public Crumb >Seconds>Minutes>Hours> Mary Lou LordGot No Shadow New RadicalsMaybe You've Been Brainwashed Too The Wailing Souls Psychedelic Souls HaydenThe Closer I Get1999 Bob and Mark Mothersbaugh200 Cigarettes Soundtrack Paul Westerberg Suicaine Gratifaction Chris CornellEuphoria Morning Guns N' Roses Oh My God (End of Days Soundtrack) Shawn Mullins First Ten Years2000 DEVOPioneers Who Got Scalped Poe Haunted John DoeFreedom Is... Tracy BonhamDown Here Hoku Hoku Leona Naess Comatised Nash Kato Debutante F.Y.P Toys That Kill2001 SinOMatic SinOMatic Puddle Of MuddCome Clean Abandoned PoolsHumanisticBuffy the Vampire Slayer "Once More, With Feeling" Soundtrack Rob ZombieThe Sinister Urge 2002 Seether Disclaimer 12 Stones12 Stones 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun Rhett MillerThe Instigator Avril LavigneLet Go Unwritten LawElva MOTH Provisions, Fiction and Gear2003 The OffspringSplinter Viva Death Self Titled The Format Interventions + Lullabies The LovemakersTimes of Romance Kelly Clarkson Thankful EvanescenceFallen Good CharlotteThe Young & the Hopeless Ween Quebec Clay Aiken Measure of a Man Desert SessionsVolumes 9 & 10 Seo Taiji 6th Album Re-Recording and ETPFEST Live The Damning Well "Awakening" (from Underworld Soundtrack) Static-X Shadow Zone Revis Places for Breathing 2004 SeetherDisclaimer II The Dwarves The Dwarves Must Die Static-XBeneath... Between... Beyond... Tommy Stinson Village Gorilla Head Kelly ClarksonBreakaway The MartinisSmitten Avril Lavigne Under My Skin The Calling Two RadfordSleepwalker2005 Sting Live 8 Music Relief Concert DVD Courtney Jaye Traveling Light Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze (on the song "In My Head")WeenShinola, Vol. 1 Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning The VeronicasThe Secret Life of... The Offspring Greatest Hits (on the song "Can't Repeat")2006 Viva DeathOne Percent PanicFaulterDarling Buds of May The ReplacementsDon't You Know Who I Think I Was? (on two new recordings) The Summer Obsession This Is Where You Belong Nina Gordon Bleeding Heart Graffiti (on "Christmas Lights", "Suffragette", "Don't Let Me Down", "Pure", "Watercolors", "Turn On Your Radio") Anna TsuchiyaStrip Me? Devo 2.0 Devo 2.0 Rob Zombie Educated Horses Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers Mine Is Not A Holy War Daughtry Daughtry Lostprophets Liberation Transmission2007 Elliott Yamin Elliott Yamin (on "I'm the Man", "Take My Breath Away") Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing Black Light Burns Cruel MelodyNine Inch Nails Beside You in Time Year Zero Fuel Angels & Devils B'zEien no Tsubasa2008 Miley Cyrus Breakout Gavin Rossdale Wanderlust Nine Inch Nails The Slip Brian Head Welch Save Me from Myself Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace Filter Anthems for the Damned Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy (writing & arrangements only; Freese's drumming was re-recorded by a different drummer upon exiting the band) Hollywood Undead Swan Songs Jubilee "Rebel Hiss" (Single from forthcoming album) Katy Perry One of the Boys2009 Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted Filter The Very Best Things (1995-2008) Selena Gomez Kiss & Tell Orianthi Believe Michael Bublé Crazy Love Weezer Raditude2010 Slash Slash Melissa Auf der Maur Out of Our Minds Katy Perry Teenage DreamFoxy Shazam Foxy Shazam Devo Something for Everybody Joe Cocker Hard Knocks2011 Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes Ricky MartinMúsica + alma + sexo Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby Kelly Clarkson Stronger Michael Buble Christmas2012 The Offspring Days Go By2013 Ra Ra RiotBeta Love Rob ZombieVenomous Rat Regeneration Vendor Sons of the Sea Compass EP & Sons of the Sea2014 Bruce Springsteen High HopesDwarvesThe Dwarves Invented Rock & RollCaleb JohnsonTestify 2015 Kazuya YoshiiChōzetsu Dynamic! 2016 Sting57th & 9th 2018 John Sykes Sy-Ops 2019StingMy Songs2020Paul LearyBorn Stupid2021The OffspringLet the Bad Times RollSamantha FishFasterDanny ElfmanBig MessStingThe Bridge2023100 gecs10,000 GecsVarious artistsBarbie the Album2024The OffspringSupercharged
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