Buckethead discography

Buckethead is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Buckethead's discography currently includes 435 studio albums (388 of which are in the Pike series), one live album, four special releases, five demo tapes, three solo DVD video releases, two DVD video releases with Cornbugs, three music videos, three solo videography releases, and 16 videography releases with other artists.

Since 1994, Buckethead has released six studio recordings under the anagram of Death Cube K. He has released 74 works with other bands and artists (including his work as Death Cube K). The total number of studio albums, special releases, extended plays, demo tapes, and works with other bands and projects is 384. His guest appearances total 97. His videography releases total 19. In total, Buckethead has been involved with 493 different album projects (as solo or with other bands). As of his 320th solo studio album and his 300th album in the Pike series Quarry, his total solo studio album running time is approximately 171 hours 55 minutes and 10 seconds.

Solo

Studio albums

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

Special releases

EPs

Live albums

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

Music videos

Unreleased albums

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

Bands and projects

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

• 2023: TBA

With Barry Michels

• 2020: Contemplation Corner

With Bootsy Collins

• 1993: Lord of the Harvest (as Zillatron)

With Brain

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

With Brain and Melissa Reese

• 2010: Best Regards
• 2010: Kind Regards

With Brain and Travis Dickerson

• 2008: The Dragons of Eden

With Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve

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

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

Arcana

• 1997: Arc of the Testimony

Cobra Strike

• 1999: The 13th Scroll
• 2000: Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y <hold> ←

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

• 2004: The Big Eyeball in the Sky

Cornbugs

• 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

• 1990: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1990
• 1996: Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996
• 2005: Dawn of the Deli Creeps

El Stew

• 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

• 2008: Bolt on Neck

Giant Robot

• 1996: Giant Robot

Gorgone

• 2005: Gorgone

Guns N' Roses

• 2008: Chinese Democracy

Praxis

• 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

• 2008: Living On Another Frequency

Shin Terai / Shine / Shin.E

• 2001: Unison
• 2004: Heaven & Hell
• 2007: Lightyears

Thanatopsis

• 2001: Thanatopsis
• 2003: Axiology
• 2006: Anatomize
• 2015: Requiem

Guest appearances

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
• 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"

See also

• List of ambient music artists

References

"Buckethead Pikes". Retrieved 12 August 2015.

External links

• Bucketheadland official website