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{{member
| name = Josh Freese
| imgname = Josh Freese2025.jpgpng
| instruments = Drums
| years = 2005-2008, 2025–present| tours = [[Live: With Teeth]]-[[Lights In The Sky Tour|Lights In The Sky]], [[Peel It Back Tour]]–present}}'''Josh Freese''' (born December 25, 1972) is a session musician with a prolific career, who is currently the drummer of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. He was a welcome addition to [[Nine Inch Nails]]the band, originally replacing [[Jerome Dillon]] and [[Alex Carapetis]] during the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour, then later rejoining the band, replacing [[Ilan Rubin]] during the [[Peel It Back Tour]].
==Biography==
Freese came into Nine Inch Nails in September of 2005, when then-drummer Dillon announced he needed some time off to tend to a personal health matter. Freese played two shows with the band before departing to focus on other projects. Carapetis then played drums for a short time. By the end of NIN's Fall 2005 tour, Freese was available and became the official drummer.
On October 8, 2008, Freese announced that the second North American leg of the [[Lights In The Sky Tour]] would be his last with NIN. In a 2021 podcast interview[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeAsMFl1HKk], Freese revealed that he left the band due to family obligations. In 2025, in the middle of the Peel It Back Tour, it was announced that Freese would be returning after Ilan Rubin left to join the Foo Fighters (who had fired Freese the same year).
Freese currently lives in southern California with his wife and four children.
* Devo (1996-present)
* Guns N' Roses (1997-2000)
* [[A Perfect Circle]] (1999-2004, 2010-2011present)
* Sting (2005, 2016)
* Nine Inch Nails (2005-2008, 2025–present)
* Black Light Burns (2007)
* Weezer (20092007-20112012, 2025–present)* Paramore (20102010–2011)
* The Replacements (2013)
* The Offspring (20212021–2023)* Danny Elfman (2022–2023)* Foo Fighters (2023-2025)
==External links==
* [httphttps://joshfreesewww.thejoshfreese.com Official site]* [httphttps://www.instagram.com/joshfreese/ Josh Freese on Instagram]* [https://youtube.com/joshfreese Official YouTube profile]
* {{twitter|joshfreese|joshfreese}}
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