Tyler Bates
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| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Formerly of | Marilyn Manson, Smash Alley, Pet |
| Website | tylerbates |
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Tyler Bates (born June 5, 1965) is an American musician, music producer, and composer for film, television, and video game scores.[2] Much of his work is in the action and horror film genres,[3] with films like Dawn of the Dead, 300, Sucker Punch, Halloween and Halloween II and the John Wick franchise. He has collaborated with directors like Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie, Genndy Tartakovsky, Neil Marshall, William Friedkin, Scott Derrickson, James Gunn, Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, and Ti West.[3] In addition, he is the former lead guitarist of the American rock band Marilyn Manson, and produced its albums The Pale Emperor, Heaven Upside Down and One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1.[4] He is Jerry Cantrell's touring/studio member.
Early life, family and education
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Bates was born on June 5, 1965,[1] in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in Chicago, Illinois, he played in a hair metal band Smash Alley.
Career
Bates returned to Los Angeles in 1993 to pursue a career in music.[1] He began his career in the 1990s scoring low-budget films like The Last Time I Committed Suicide, and Denial. In the meantime, he was a member of the alternative rock Pet alongside Lisa Papineau; the band released their eponymous debut in 1996.[1] His breakthrough into the mainstream came in the early 2000s, when he worked on higher-profile projects like Get Carter, Half Past Dead, and Baadasssss!. The 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead was significant, as he would maintain long-term collaborations with its director Zack Snyder, and writer James Gunn.
Bates scored four of director Rob Zombie's films, beginning with 2005's The Devil's Rejects. For Zombie's remake of Halloween and its sequel Halloween II, Bates adapted John Carpenter's original themes and motifs in order to fit the darker, grittier, and more contemporary atmosphere of the films. It was around 2007 that Bates began working regularly on big-budget, blockbuster films; including 300, Doomsday, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Sucker Punch, and Conan the Barbarian. He also composed scores for smaller, independent films like The Way, Killer Joe, The Sacrament, and Flight 7500.
The soundtrack for 300 was controversial due to its heavy borrowing of themes from film scores by Elliot Goldenthal, amongst others.[5][6][7] On August 3, 2007, Warner Bros. Pictures acknowledged this in a statement.[8] The matter was settled amicably with the soundtrack credits being subsequently described as adapted from material by Elliot Goldenthal.[citation needed]
Bates composed the score for Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014. Having worked with James Gunn in the past, Bates had a good idea on how Gunn wanted things done.[9] Before any of the cinematography started, Gunn had Bates write several themes prior to shooting so the scene could be matched to the music instead of the score being created to fit the scene. This required cooperation between Bates and Gunn in advance since these scores would be in the final piece, instead of a temporary filler acting as a placeholder. They influenced the performance on set, which required an undertaking by both Bates and his team. For four months, they clocked upwards of 100-hour work weeks to produce this finished product.[10] After all the work, they had a total of 29 different soundtracks giving a combined total of 64:34 of music.[11] "At least half the cues in the movie have more than 500 tracks of audio," Bates was quoted in an interview with Melinda Newman on HitFix. This was a result of there being orchestral passages that were doubled or tripled, choirs, overdubs, and other instrumentals.[citation needed]
That same year, Bates composed the score to the action film John Wick, collaborating with Joel J. Richard and Marilyn Manson. The film proved a surprise critical and financial success, and Bates returned to score its sequel John Wick: Chapter 2, and also its third and fourth installments. He and Richard also scored its 2025 spin-off Ballerina, replacing Marco Beltrami and Anna Drubich. He would later collaborate again with co-director David Leitch to score a spiritual successor, the Cold War-era spy thriller Atomic Blonde.[citation needed]
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. Most recently he composed for Crossfire.[citation needed]
Other projects
In 2014, Bates co-wrote and produced Marilyn Manson's record The Pale Emperor. The album debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200, while the single "Deep Six" went on to chart higher than any other single by Marilyn Manson on BillboardTemplate:'s Mainstream Rock Chart. Bates joined the band in 2015 as the lead guitarist for The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour. The album's song "Cupid Carries a Gun" was used as the opening title music of the TV show Salem, and Bates composed the show's score.[12] In April 2015 he left Marilyn Manson to resume film work.[citation needed]
In October 2015, during a Q&A with Marilyn Manson at the Grammy Museum, Manson announced that he and Tyler were working on new music together again. In 2015 Loudwire listed "The Mephistopheles Of Los Angeles" No. 1 best rock track and Rolling Stone included The Pale Emperor in its Top 50 list of the best albums of 2015. He returned as the lead guitarist during the tour with Slipknot in July 2016.[13] In 2017, they worked for the follow-up Heaven Upside Down with a world tour, starting July 20, in Budapest,[14] playing more than 100 shows around the world. In January 2018, Bates announced via Twitter that he left the band and returned to his studio to work exclusively on film and television.[15]
Tyler composed the song "Monsters After Dark" for the night Halloween mode of the ride Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!.[16]
In 2021, Bates co-produced and played strings, percussion and guitar on Jerry Cantrell's album Brighten.[17]
Discography
Film scores
Television scores
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2001 | Strange Frequency | 3 episodes |
| American High | Documentary series 4 episodes | |
| 2003 | Black Sash | 8 episodes |
| 2004 | Pornucopia | 2 episodes |
| 2007–14 | Californication | 84 episodes |
| 2008–09 | James Gunn's PG Porn | 7 episodes |
| 2010–11 | Sym-Bionic Titan | 20 episodes |
| 2013 | Low Winter Sun | 10 episodes |
| 2014 | Hysteria | TV pilot |
| 2014–16 | Salem | 29 episodes |
| 2014–17 | Kingdom | 31 episodes |
| 2017 | Samurai Jack | 10 episodes Themes by James L. Venable, will.i.am and George Pajon Composed with Joanne Higginbottom and Dieter Hartmann |
| The Exorcist | 10 episodes Themes by Daniel Hart | |
| 2017–19 | The Punisher | 26 episodes |
| 2018–19 | The Purge | 20 episodes |
| 2019–20 | Stumptown | 18 episodes |
| 2019–present | Primal | 21 episodes Composed with Joanne Higginbottom |
| 2023 | Agent Elvis | 10 episodes Composed with Timothy Williams |
| Unicorn: Warriors Eternal | 10 episodes Composed with Joanne Higginbottom | |
| 2024–present | Tracker | 42 episodes Composed with Joanne Higginbottom |
Video game soundtracks
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2008 | Rise of the Argonauts | Template:Screen reader-only |
| 2009 | Watchmen: The End Is Nigh | Template:Screen reader-only |
| 2010 | Army of Two: The 40th Day | Template:Screen reader-only |
| Transformers: War for Cybertron | Template:Screen reader-only | |
| 2013 | God of War: Ascension | Template:Screen reader-only |
| Killzone: Shadow Fall | Composed with Lorn | |
| 2019 | Far Cry New Dawn | Composed with John Swihart |
| 2022 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II | Season 6 |
Own work
With Marilyn Manson
- The Pale Emperor (2015)
- Heaven Upside Down (2017)
- One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 (2024)
- One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 (2026)
With Pet
- Pet (1996) (guitar, bass, backing vocals, production)
With Bush
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- The Kingdom (2020) (songwriting, production)
With Jerry Cantrell
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- Brighten (2021) (strings, percussion, guitar, production)
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Birchmeier, Jason. "Tyler Bates". AllMusic. Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Famed Composer Tyler Bates to Score ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY". Leisure and Travel Week. October 31, 2009. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015 – via Highbeam.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Work Credits". tylerbates.com. Tyler Bates. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tyler Bates Biography". tylerbates.com. Tyler Bates. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Justin Bielawa (February 27, 2007). "300". Music on Film. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.James Southall. "300". Movie Wave. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Demetris Christodoulides. "300". Score Magazine. Archived from the original on June 17, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."300 on DVD". 300ondvd.com. August 3, 2007. Archived from the original on August 11, 2007. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tyler Bates Discusses making the Deadpool 2 soundtrack". Film Industry Network. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Entertainment". UPROXX. June 30, 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'Guardians of the Galaxy' Deluxe Edition Soundtrack & Score Album Details". Filmmusicreporter.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2025. Retrieved June 5, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Marilyn Manson Streams 'Cupid Carries A Gun'". Bloody-disgusting.com. January 7, 2015. Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Podcast – Interview with Tyler Bates". Future Composer. June 7, 2016. Archived from the original on September 21, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tyler Bates Biography". Tylerbates.com. Tyler Bates. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Glover, Erin (August 24, 2017). "Help #SaveGroot at Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark During Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort". Disney Parks. Archived from the original (Blog) on January 7, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ALICE IN CHAINS' JERRY CANTRELL: More 'Brighten' Solo Album Details Revealed". Blabbermouth. July 30, 2021. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Tyler Bates at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Tyler Bates being interviewed at the Grammy Museum
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