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 |
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