1. Tyler Bates was born on June 5,1965 and is an American musician, music producer, and composer for film, television, and video game scores.
16 Facts About Tyler Bates
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Tyler Bates has collaborated with directors like Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie, Gennady Tartakovsky, Neil Marshall, William Friedkin, Scott Derrickson, James Gunn, Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, and Ti West.
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Tyler Bates began his career in the 1990s scoring low-budget films like The Last Time I Committed Suicide, and Denial.
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Tyler Bates scored four of director Rob Zombie's films, beginning with 2005's The Devil's Rejects.
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For Zombie's remake of Halloween and its sequel Halloween II, Tyler Bates adapted John Carpenter's original themes and motifs in order to fit the darker, grittier, and more contemporary atmosphere of the films.
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Tyler Bates composed scores for smaller, independent films like The Way, Killer Joe, The Sacrament, and Flight 7500.
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Tyler Bates composed the score for Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014.
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That same year, Bates composed the score to the action film John Wick, collaborating with Joel J Richard and Marilyn Manson.
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The film proved a surprise critical and financial success, and Tyler Bates returned to score its sequel John Wick: Chapter 2, and its third and fourth installments.
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Tyler Bates composed the soundtrack for the PlayStation 3 games God of War: Ascension and Army of Two: The 40th Day, as well as the PlayStation 4 game Killzone: Shadow Fall.
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In 2014, Tyler Bates co-wrote and produced Marilyn Manson's record The Pale Emperor.
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Tyler Bates joined the band in 2015 as the lead guitarist for The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour.
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The album's song "Cupid Carries a Gun" was used as the opening title music of the TV show Salem, and Tyler Bates composed the show's score.
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Tyler Bates returned as the lead guitarist during the tour with Slipknot in July 2016.
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In January 2018, Tyler Bates announced via Twitter that he left the band and returned to his studio to work exclusively on film and television.
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In 2021, Tyler Bates co-produced and played strings, percussion and guitar on Jerry Cantrell's album Brighten.