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 for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 1999. Freese was the new drummer for Foo Fighters from 2023 to 2025.
Discography
Solo
As featured artist
| Year
|
Artist
|
Album
|
| 1991
|
Dweezil Zappa
|
Confessions
|
| Tender Fury
|
If Anger Were Soul I'd Be James Brown
|
| 1992
|
Xtra Large
|
Now I Eat Them
|
| Suicidal Tendencies
|
The Art of Rebellion
|
| 1993
|
Infectious Grooves
|
Sarsippius' Ark
|
| School Of Fish
|
Human Cannonball
|
| Paul Westerberg
|
14 Songs
|
| Lee Ving
|
Lee Ving
|
| 1994
|
The Daredevils
|
Hate You
|
| Seo Taiji and Boys
|
Seo Taiji and Boys III
|
| 1995
|
Possum Dixon
|
Star Maps
|
| Juliana Hatfield
|
Only Everything
|
| Earl Lee Grace
|
Blackgrass
|
| Devo
|
Tank Girl Soundtrack
|
| Strung Out
|
Somnombulance Split W/ Blount
|
| Wayne Kramer
|
The Hard Stuff
|
| Magnapop
|
Rubbing Doesn't Help
|
| Seo Taiji and Boys
|
Seo Taiji and Boys IV
|
| 1996
|
Tracy Bonham
|
The Burdens of Being Upright
|
| Paul Westerberg
|
Eventually
|
| Crumb
|
Romance Is A Slowdance
|
| Danny Elfman
|
Freeway Soundtrack
|
| Lazlo Bane
|
Short Style
|
| 1997
|
Lazlo Bane
|
11 Transistor
|
| Rickie Lee Jones
|
Ghosty Head
|
| Bic Runga
|
Drive
|
| Mary Lou Lord
|
Martian Saints EP
|
| Meredith Brooks
|
Blurring the Edges
|
| Slider
|
Sudden Fun
|
| 1998
|
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 Lord
|
Got No Shadow
|
| New Radicals
|
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
|
| The Wailing Souls
|
Psychedelic Souls
|
| Hayden
|
The Closer I Get
|
| 1999
|
Bob and Mark Mothersbaugh
|
200 Cigarettes Soundtrack
|
| Paul Westerberg
|
Suicaine Gratifaction
|
| Chris Cornell
|
Euphoria Morning
|
| Guns N' Roses
|
Oh My God (End of Days Soundtrack)
|
| Shawn Mullins
|
First Ten Years
|
| 2000
|
DEVO
|
Pioneers Who Got Scalped
|
| Poe
|
Haunted
|
| John Doe
|
Freedom Is...
|
| Tracy Bonham
|
Down Here
|
| Hoku
|
Hoku
|
| Leona Naess
|
Comatised
|
| Nash Kato
|
Debutante
|
| F.Y.P
|
Toys That Kill
|
| 2001
|
SinOMatic
|
SinOMatic
|
| Puddle Of Mudd
|
Come Clean
|
| Abandoned Pools
|
Humanistic
|
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|
"Once More, With Feeling" Soundtrack
|
| Rob Zombie
|
The Sinister Urge
|
| 2002
|
Seether
|
Disclaimer
|
| 12 Stones
|
12 Stones
|
| 3 Doors Down
|
Away from the Sun
|
| Rhett Miller
|
The Instigator
|
| Avril Lavigne
|
Let Go
|
| Unwritten Law
|
Elva
|
| MOTH
|
Provisions, Fiction and Gear
|
| 2003
|
The Offspring
|
Splinter
|
| Viva Death
|
Self Titled
|
| The Format
|
Interventions + Lullabies
|
| The Lovemakers
|
Times of Romance
|
| Kelly Clarkson
|
Thankful
|
| Evanescence
|
Fallen
|
| Good Charlotte
|
The Young & the Hopeless
|
| Ween
|
Quebec
|
| Clay Aiken
|
Measure of a Man
|
| Desert Sessions
|
Volumes 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
|
Seether
|
Disclaimer II
|
| The Dwarves
|
The Dwarves Must Die
|
| Static-X
|
Beneath... Between... Beyond...
|
| Tommy Stinson
|
Village Gorilla Head
|
| Kelly Clarkson
|
Breakaway
|
| The Martinis
|
Smitten
|
| Avril Lavigne
|
Under My Skin
|
| The Calling
|
Two
|
| Radford
|
Sleepwalker
|
| 2005
|
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")
|
| Unwritten Law
|
Here's to the Mourning
|
| The Veronicas
|
The Secret Life of...
|
| The Offspring
|
Greatest Hits (on the song "Can't Repeat")
|
| 2006
|
Viva Death
|
One Percent Panic
|
| The Replacements
|
Don'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 Tsuchiya
|
Strip 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 Transmission
|
| 2007
|
Elliott Yamin
|
Elliott Yamin (on "I'm the Man", "Take My Breath Away")
|
| Avril Lavigne
|
The Best Damn Thing
|
| Black Light Burns
|
Cruel Melody
|
| Nine Inch Nails
|
Beside You in Time
|
| Year Zero
|
| Fuel
|
Angels & Devils
|
| B'z
|
Eien no Tsubasa
|
| 2008
|
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 Boys
|
| 2009
|
Kelly Clarkson
|
All I Ever Wanted
|
| Filter
|
The Very Best Things (1995-2008)
|
| Selena Gomez
|
Kiss & Tell
|
| Orianthi
|
Believe
|
| Michael Bublé
|
Crazy Love
|
| Weezer
|
Raditude
|
| 2010
|
Slash
|
Slash
|
| Melissa Auf der Maur
|
Out of Our Minds
|
| Katy Perry
|
Teenage Dream
|
| Foxy Shazam
|
Foxy Shazam
|
| Devo
|
Something for Everybody
|
| Joe Cocker
|
Hard Knocks
|
| 2011
|
Social Distortion
|
Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
|
| Ricky Martin
|
Música + alma + sexo
|
| Avril Lavigne
|
Goodbye Lullaby
|
| Kelly Clarkson
|
Stronger
|
| Michael Buble
|
Christmas
|
| 2012
|
The Offspring
|
Days Go By
|
| 2013
|
Ra Ra Riot
|
Beta Love
|
| Rob Zombie
|
Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
|
| Sons of the Sea
|
Compass EP & Sons of the Sea[2]
|
| 2014
|
Bruce Springsteen
|
High Hopes
|
| Dwarves
|
The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll
|
| Caleb Johnson
|
Testify
|
| 2015
|
Kazuya Yoshii
|
Chōzetsu Dynamic!
|
| 2016
|
Sting
|
57th & 9th
|
| 2018
|
John Sykes
|
Sy-Ops
|
| 2019
|
Sting
|
My Songs
|
| 2020
|
Paul Leary
|
Born Stupid
|
| 2021
|
The Offspring
|
Let the Bad Times Roll
|
| Samantha Fish
|
Faster
|
| Danny Elfman
|
Big Mess
|
| Sting
|
The Bridge
|
| 2023
|
100 gecs
|
10,000 Gecs
|
| Various artists
|
Barbie the Album
|
| 2024
|
The Offspring
|
Supercharged
|
References