Tyler Bates | |
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Bates at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2014
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Background information | |
Birth name | Tyler L. Bates |
Born |
Los Angeles, California, United States |
June 5, 1965
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Instruments | Guitar |
Years active | 1993–present |
Associated acts | Marilyn Manson |
Website | tylerbates |
Tyler Bates is a music producer and composer for films, television, and video games. His recent work includes James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, which has become one of the highest grossing domestic movies of 2014. Bates previously scored Gunn's movies Slither (2006) and Super (2010). Bates also worked with Gunn on The Belko Experiment due for release in 2016 and has started work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
Bates has composed scores for films including Rob Zombie's Halloween, Halloween II, and The Devil's Rejects; on Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, and Sucker Punch; on Neil Marshall's Doomsday; on Gregory Dark's See No Evil; and on Ti West's The Sacrament.
In 2011, he scored Emilio Estevez's The Way, William Friedkin's Killer Joe, Marcus Nispel's Conan the Barbarian, and Chris Gorak's The Darkest Hour.