Buckethead discography

Buckethead is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Buckethead's extensive solo discography currently includes 31 studio albums, one live album, two expended plays, five special releases, six demo tapes, & four DVD releases. Since 2011, Buckethead started releasing albums in the "Pikes" series, mini-albums usually around 30 minutes in length, each with a sequential number similar to a comic book. Buckethead has released 655 Pike albums, 175 of which are live albums.

Buckethead has also released seven studio albums under the alias Death Cube K (an anagram of Buckethead). He has released collaborative albums with Brain, Travis Dickerson, Melissa Reese, Viggo Mortensen, Shin Terai, DJ Disk, Bootsy Collins, That 1 Guy and albums with the bands Praxis, Cornbugs, Science Faxtion, Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, and Deli Creeps, in addition to many other collaborations with bands and artists.

Pike Series
The Pike Series are mini-albums that Buckethead began releasing rapidly in 2011, usually around 30 minutes in length. Each has a sequential number like a comic book. Live Pikes are listed separately under Live albums. Several Pike albums are unreleased (286, 289, 290, 295, 513, 525); preview tracks from Pikes 286 Nautical Twilight, 289, and 290 are available online. Buckethead has released 380 studio Pikes

Singles

 * 1999: "The Ballad of Buckethead"
 * 2004: "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"
 * 2005: "We Are One" (feat. Serj Tankian)
 * 2006: "Jordan"
 * 2006: "I Like it Raw" (Dedicated to Ol' Dirty Bastard)
 * 2010: "The Rising Sun" (Dedicated to Japan Disaster Victims)
 * 2018: "Mirror in the Cellar" (free download for Halloween)
 * 2018: "Missing My Parents" (free download for Christmas)
 * 2020: "Guest of Honor: Paul Frees"
 * 2020: "Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee in Honor of Cameron Boyce"
 * 2020: "Beach Fire Pit"
 * 2020: "The Whispering Metals"
 * 2020: "Beyond the Visable"
 * 2020: "Stump City Breakers"
 * 2021: "Skylight"
 * 2021: "Chicken Sticks"
 * 2022: "Idea"
 * 2023: "Butterfly Eyes"
 * 2023: "My Tree Friend"
 * 2023: "Tree Friend for All"
 * 2023: "Beautiful Moments that Last"

Spoken word albums

 * 2022: Musical Alchemy (with Red Sulphur)
 * 2022: Pelican (with Red Sulphur)

Demo tapes

 * 1989: Brazos (Given to Guitar Player Magazine)
 * 1991: Giant Robot
 * 1991: Bucketheadland Blueprints
 * 1995: Grab Bag#1
 * 1996: Grab Bag#2
 * 1998: Grab Bag#3

Solo DVD videos

 * 2005: Secret Recipe
 * 2006: Young Buckethead Vol. 1
 * 2006: Young Buckethead Vol. 2
 * 2018: Soothsayer

DVD videos with Cornbugs

 * 2007: Quackers!
 * 2007: Headcheese

Unreleased albums

 * Buckethead Plays Disney
 * Super Diorama Theater
 * Warm Regards (with Brain and Melissa Reese)

As Death Cube K

 * 1994: Dreamatorium
 * 1997: Disembodied
 * 1999: Tunnel
 * 2007: DCK
 * 2007: Monolith
 * 2009: Torn from Black Space
 * 2022: Sub Sea Hollow
 * TBA: Mirror Interval
 * TBA: Magmabot
 * TBA: Bennu Mountain
 * TBA: Salamander Sanctuary

With Alix Lambert and Travis Dickerson

 * 2008: Running After Deer

With Azam Ali

 * 2024: TBA

With Barry Michels

 * 2020: Contemplation Corner

With Brain

 * 1997: I Need 5 Minutes Alone (As Pieces)
 * 2007: Kevin's Noodle House
 * 2010: Brain as Hamenoodle

With Brain and Melissa

 * 2010: Best Regards
 * 2010: Kind Regards

With Brain and Travis Dickerson

 * 2008: The Dragons of Eden

With Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve

 * 1993: Octave of the Holy Innocents (Re-released in 2003)

With Madeline Cyrille Miller

 * 2024: Veins of Institution

With Prismo

 * 2022: Overload (Single)
 * 2022: Chemical Cage (Single)

With Travis Dickerson

 * 2006: Chicken Noodles
 * 2007: Chicken Noodles II
 * 2009: Iconography
 * 2010: Left Hanging

With Viggo Mortensen

 * 1997: One Less Thing to Worry About
 * 1998: Recent Forgeries
 * 1999: The Other Parade
 * 1999: One Man's Meat
 * 2003: Pandemoniumfromamerica
 * 2004: Please Tomorrow
 * 2004: This That and The Other (Compilation)
 * 2005: Intelligence Failure
 * 2008: At All
 * 2011: Reunion
 * 2013: Acá (two tracks only)
 * 2016: Seventeen Odd Songs
 * 2018: Godzilla Sleeps Alone

Cobra Strike
(Buckethead and DJ Disk)
 * 1999: The 13th Scroll
 * 2000: Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y ←

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
(Buckethead, Brain, Bernie Worrell, Les Claypool)
 * 2004: The Big Eyeball in the Sky

Cornbugs
(Buckethead, Bill Moseley, Pinchface, Travis Dickerson)
 * 1999: Spot the Psycho
 * 2001: Cemetery Pinch
 * 2001: How Now Brown Cow
 * 2004: Brain Circus
 * 2004: Donkey Town
 * 2005: Rest Home for Robots
 * 2005: Skeleton Farm
 * 2006: Celebrity Psychos

Deli Creeps
(Buckethead, Maximum Bob, Pinchface, Dan Monti)
 * 1990: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1990
 * 1996: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996
 * 2005: Dawn of the Deli Creeps

El Stew
(Buckethead, Brain, Eddie Def, DJ Disk, DJ Extraked)
 * 1999: El Stew "Extended Play 1.0"
 * 1999: No Hesitation
 * 2003: The Rehearsal
 * 2011: The Dark Night Of A Million Stains – The Rehearsal #2

Frankenstein Brothers
(Buckethead & That 1 Guy)
 * 2008: Bolt on Neck

Giant Robot
(Buckethead, Brain, Pete Scaturro)
 * 1996: Giant Robot

Gorgone
(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Pinchface)
 * 2005: Gorgone

Guns N' Roses
(Buckethead, Brain, Axl Rose, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, Paul Tobias, Dizzy Reed, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus)
 * 2008: Chinese Democracy

Praxis
(Buckethead, Brain, Bill Laswell)
 * 1992: Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
 * 1994: Sacrifist
 * 1994: Metatron
 * 1997: Live in Poland
 * 1997: Transmutation Live
 * 1998: Collection
 * 1999: Warszawa
 * 2005: Zurich
 * 2007: Tennessee 2004
 * 2008: Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)
 * 2015: Sound Virus

Science Faxtion
(Buckethead, Brain, Bootsy Collins, Greg Hampton, Tobe Donohue)
 * 2008: Living On Another Frequency

Shin Terai / Shine / Shin.E
(Buckethead, Shin Terai, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell)
 * 2001: Unison
 * 2004: Heaven & Hell
 * 2007: Lightyears

Thanatopsis
(Buckethead, Travis Dickerson, Ramy Antoun)
 * 2001: Thanatopsis
 * 2003: Axiology
 * 2006: Anatomize
 * 2015: Requiem

Zillatron
(Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell)
 * 1993: Lord of the Harvest

Multiple appearances with artists
Anton Fier
 * 1993 – Dreamspeed
 * 2003 – Blindlight 1992–1994

Bernie Worrell
 * 1993 – Pieces Of Woo: The Other Side
 * 1997 – Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey

Bill Laswell
 * 1993 – Axiom Collection II: Manifestation
 * 1993 – Divination – Ambient Dub Volume 1
 * 1994 – Axiom Ambient – Lost in the Translation
 * 1995 – Axiom Funk – Funkcronomicon
 * 1995 – Axiom Funk - "If 6 was 9" (Single)
 * 1996 – Alien Ambient Galaxy
 * 1996 – Myth – Dreams of the World
 * 1997 – Valis II – Everything Must Go
 * 1998 – Telesterion – Hall of Mysteries
 * 2001 – Points of Order
 * 2007 – Method Of Defiance – Inamorata

Bootsy Collins
 * 2006 – Christmas Is 4 Ever
 * 2008 – The Official Boot-Legged-Bootsy-CD
 * 2011 – Tha Funk Capital of the World
 * 2017 – World Wide Funk
 * 2019 – Bootzilla Records Archives: Volume 1

Company 91
 * 1992 – Company 91 Volume 1
 * 1992 – Company 91 Volume 2
 * 1992 – Company 91 Volume 3

Phonopsychograph Disk
 * 1998 – Ancient Termites
 * 1999 – Live @ Slim's / Turbulence Chest
 * 1999 – Unrealesed (Cassette Only)
 * 2009 – Marsupial's Belly Flop Breaks (Remastered version)
 * 2013 – Unrealesed (CD version)

Freekbass
 * 2003 – The Air is Fresher Underground
 * 2007 – A Sliver of Shiver (Live DVD)
 * 2008 – Junkyard Waltz

Icehouse
 * 1993 - "Big Wheel" (Single)
 * 1993 – Spin One (EP)
 * 1994 – Full Circle
 * 1994 - "Great Southern Land" (German single)
 * 1997 – Masterfile (Japanese release)

Lawson Rollins
 * 2011 – Elevation

Mike Patton with Buckethead and DJ Flare, forming Moonraker
 * 2000 – Live @ The Knitting Factory (Bootleg only)

Refrigerator
 * 1997 – Somehow – Buckethead plays the guitar as well as the samples (cut 3)

Single appearance with artist(s)

 * 1991 – Henry Kaiser – Hope You Like Our New Direction
 * 1992 – Will Ackerman – The Opening of Doors
 * 1993 – MCM and the Monster – Collective Emotional Problems
 * 1993 – Psyber Pop – What? So What?
 * 1994 – Jon Hassell and Blue Screen – Dressing for Pleasure – Buckethead plays the Electric Bass on Track 10.
 * 1994 – Hakim Bey – T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone)
 * 1995 – Buckshot LeFonque - "No Pain No Gain" (Single with remixes)
 * 1995 – Julian Schnabel – Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
 * 1997 – Arcana -Arc of the Testimony (guitar on three tracks)
 * 1998 – Bastard Noise – Split W/Spastic Colon
 * 1998 – DJ Qbert – Wave Twisters
 * 1999 – Banyan – Anytime at All
 * 1999 – Ben Wa – Devil Dub
 * 2000 – Double E – Audio Men
 * 2000 – Tony Furtado Band – Tony Furtado Band
 * 2001 – Meridiem – A Pleasant Fiction (re-release in 2009)
 * 2001 – Gonervill – Gonervill
 * 2002 – Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Present: The Friendliest Psychosis of All
 * 2003 – Gemini – Product of Pain
 * 2005 – Bassnectar – Mesmerizing The Ultra
 * 2006 – Gigi – Gold & Wax
 * 2007 – Melissa Reese – Lissa
 * 2017 – Gaudi – Magnetic – guitar on Nocturnal Sonata
 * 2018 – Asterism – Ignition

Soundtracks

 * 1993 – Last Action Hero (soundtrack)
 * 1993 – Last Action Hero (score)
 * 1995 – Johnny Mnemonic (soundtrack)
 * 1995 – Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers The Movie: Original Soundtrack Album (soundtrack)
 * 1995 – Mortal Kombat (soundtrack)
 * 1996 – Stealing Beauty (soundtrack)
 * 1997 – Beverly Hills Ninja (soundtrack)
 * 1997 – Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (soundtrack)
 * 2001 – Ghosts of Mars (soundtrack)
 * 2001 – Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (soundtrack)
 * 2002 – Scratch (soundtrack)
 * 2004 – Flesh for the Beast (Score)
 * 2005 – Masters of Horror (soundtrack)
 * 2005 – Saw 2 (soundtrack)
 * 2009 – Brüno (Unreleased track "Divide and Conquer" by Giant Robot II)
 * 2012 – Twisted Metal ("Ready to Die" by Buckethead and Brain – re-worked track "Peak" from "Kind Regards" album)
 * 2019 – Sigil for Doom (soundtrack)
 * 2021 – Falling (soundtrack, with Viggo Mortensen and Skating Polly)

Compilations

 * 1997 – Guitar Zone
 * 1997 – Guitars on Mars
 * 1998 – Night and Day
 * 1998 – Guitarisma 2
 * 1998 – Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan (otherwise unreleased cover of "20th Century Boy")
 * 1998 – New Yorker Out Loud: Volume 2
 * 1999 – Crash Course in Music
 * 1999 – Horizons
 * 1999 – Music for the New Millennium
 * 2001 – Innerhythmic Sound System
 * 2001 – Bomb Anniversary Collection
 * 2001 – Gonervill presents: The Freak Brothers
 * 2002 – Guitars for Freedom
 * 2002 – The Meta Collection (otherwise unreleased track "Remember")
 * 2002 – Urban Revolutions
 * 2002 – Live from Bonnaroo 2002 – Volume 2 (otherwise unreleased C2B3 song "Number Two")
 * 2005 – Blue Sueños (otherwise unreleased track "Planeta")
 * 2006 – Guitar Hero II ("Jordan")
 * 2006 – The Longest Yard (Jack and the Ripper)
 * 2008 – Fallen Soldiers Memorial (otherwise unreleased track "Buckets of Blood" with Bootsy Collins)
 * 2008 – Guitar Hero III ("Soothsayer")
 * 2008 – Rock Band 2 ("Shackler's Revenge" with Guns N' Roses)

Other

 * 1992, 2000 – Six String Giant, a bootleg CD

Videography

 * Buckethead – Binge Clips (series of seven VHS tapes)
 * Buckethead – Killer Grabbag of Shards (CD-ROM featuring footage of live shows)
 * Buckethead - "Viva Voltron"
 * Buckethead - Guitar One Magazine Instructional Video (CD-ROM, 2006)

With other artists

 * Axiom Funk - "If 6 Was 9"
 * Deli Creeps - "Deli Creeps" [1991 Live VHS tape]
 * Bootsy Collins - "Funk Express Card"
 * Bryan Mantia – Brain's Lessons
 * Bryan Mantia – The worst drum instructional video ever DVD
 * DJ Qbert - "Inner Space Dental Commander"
 * DJ Qbert – Wave Twisters
 * Freekbass - "Always Here"
 * Guns N' Roses - "Better" (unreleased)
 * Praxis - "Animal Behaviour"
 * Praxis - "Inferno / Heat Seeker / Exploded Heart"
 * Primus – Videoplasty
 * Primus – Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (DVD easter egg)
 * Snoop Dogg - "Undacova Funk"
 * Thanatopsis - "Pyrrhic Victory"
 * Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains – Les Claypool's 5 Gallons of Diesel
 * Serj Tankian - "We Are One"
 * Bootsy Collins - "Minds Under Construction"
 * Bootsy Collins - "Monster Mash"