{{Short description|none}} 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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sweatin-to-the-oldies-the-vandals-live-mw0000110611/releases|title=Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live - The Vandals {{!}} Releases {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2018-05-30}}</ref> *''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=== {| class="wikitable" width="90%" style="font-size: 100%; background: #f9f9f9" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Artist ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Album |- | rowspan="2" | 1991 | Dweezil Zappa |''Confessions'' |- | Tender Fury |''If Anger Were Soul I'd Be James Brown'' |- | rowspan="2" | 1992 | Xtra Large | ''Now I Eat Them'' |- | Suicidal Tendencies | ''The Art of Rebellion'' |- | rowspan="4" |1993 | Infectious Grooves | ''Sarsippius' Ark'' |- | School Of Fish | ''Human Cannonball'' |- | Paul Westerberg | ''14 Songs'' |- | Lee Ving |''Lee Ving'' |- | rowspan="2" |1994 | The Daredevils | ''Hate You'' |- | Seo Taiji and Boys |''Seo Taiji and Boys III'' |- | rowspan="8" | 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'' |- | rowspan="5"|1996 | Tracy Bonham |''The Burdens of Being Upright'' |- | Paul Westerberg | ''Eventually'' |- | Crumb |''Romance Is A Slowdance'' |- | Danny Elfman |''Freeway'' Soundtrack |- | Lazlo Bane |''Short Style'' |- | rowspan="6" | 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'' |- | rowspan="8" |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'' |- | rowspan="5" |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'' |- | rowspan="8"|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'' |- | rowspan="5" |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'' |- | rowspan="7" | 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'' |- | rowspan="14" |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'' |- | rowspan="9" | 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'' |- | rowspan="7" |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") |- |Ween |Shinola, Vol. 1 |- | Unwritten Law | ''Here's to the Mourning'' |- | The Veronicas |''The Secret Life of...'' |- | The Offspring |''Greatest Hits'' (on the song "Can't Repeat") |- | rowspan="11" |2006 | Viva Death |''One Percent Panic'' |- |Faulter |Darling Buds of May |- | 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'' |- | rowspan="7"|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'' |- | rowspan="2"|Nine Inch Nails |''Beside You in Time'' |- | ''Year Zero'' |- | Fuel | ''Angels & Devils'' |- | B'z |''Eien no Tsubasa'' |- | rowspan="11"|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'' |- | rowspan="6"|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'' |- | rowspan="6"|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'' |- | rowspan="5"|2011 | Social Distortion | ''Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes'' |- | Ricky Martin |''Música + alma + sexo'' |- | Avril Lavigne | ''Goodbye Lullaby'' |- | Kelly Clarkson | ''Stronger'' |- | Michael Buble | ''Christmas'' |- | rowspan="1"|2012 | The Offspring | ''Days Go By'' |- | rowspan="3"|2013 | Ra Ra Riot |''Beta Love'' |- | Rob Zombie |''Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor'' |- | Sons of the Sea | ''Compass EP & Sons of the Sea''<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1689085/incubus-brandon-boyd-talks-sons-of-the-sea-project-exclusive-video|title=Incubus' Brandon Boyd Talks Sons of the Sea Project: Exclusive Video|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2018-05-30}}</ref> |- | rowspan = "3"|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'' |- | rowspan="4" |2021 |The Offspring |''Let the Bad Times Roll'' |- |Samantha Fish |''Faster'' |- |Danny Elfman |''Big Mess'' |- |Sting |''The Bridge''
|- | rowspan="2" |2023 |100 gecs |''10,000 Gecs'' |- |Various artists |''Barbie the Album'' |- |2024 |The Offspring |''Supercharged'' |}
==References== {{reflist}}
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