American musician, music producer, film score composer
This article is about the musician. For the professional wrestler, see
Tyler Bate
.
Musical artist
Tyler Bates
(born June 5, 1965) is an American musician,
[2]
producer, and composer for film, television, and video game scores.
[3]
Much of his work is in the
action
and
horror film
genres,
[4]
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
,
Neil Marshall
,
William Friedkin
,
Scott Derrickson
,
James Gunn
,
Chad Stahelski
and
David Leitch
.
[4]
In addition, he is the former lead guitarist of the American
rock
band
Marilyn Manson
, and produced its albums
The Pale Emperor
and
Heaven Upside Down
.
[2]
He is
Jerry Cantrell
's touring/studio member.
Biography
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Early life and film scoring
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Bates was born on June 5, 1965,
[1]
in
Los Angeles
,
California
. Growing up in
Chicago
, he 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
Tammy and the T-Rex
,
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
, 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. This required an undertaking by both Bates and his team. For 4 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 re-teamed with that film's co-director
David Leitch
to score a spiritual successor, the
Cold War
-era
spy thriller
Atomic Blonde
.
[
citation needed
]
Video game scoring
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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
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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 Billboard'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!
.
[
citation needed
]
In 2021, Bates co-produced and played strings, percussion and guitar on
Jerry Cantrell
's album
Brighten
.
[16]
Discography
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Film scores
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Television scores
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Video game soundtracks
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Own work
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with Marilyn Manson
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with Pet
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- Pet
(1996) (guitar, bass, backing vocals, production)
with Bush
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with Jerry Cantrell
[
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- Brighten
(2021) (strings, percussion, guitar, production)
References
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- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
Birchmeier, Jason.
"Tyler Bates"
.
AllMusic
. Retrieved
June 20,
2021
.
- ^
a
b
"Tyler Bates Biography"
.
www.tylerbates.com
. Retrieved
August 18,
2017
.
- ^
"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
"Work Credits"
.
www.tylerbates.com
. Archived from
the original
on January 25, 2016
. Retrieved
August 18,
2017
.
- ^
Justin Bielawa (February 27, 2007).
"300"
.
Music on Film
. Archived from
the original
on December 11, 2008
. Retrieved
March 18,
2007
.
- ^
James Southall.
"300"
.
Movie Wave
.
Archived
from the original on March 20, 2007
. Retrieved
March 18,
2007
.
- ^
Demetris Christodoulides.
"300"
.
Score Magazine
. Archived from
the original
on June 17, 2008
. Retrieved
March 18,
2007
.
- ^
"300 on DVD"
. August 3, 2007. Archived from
the original
on August 11, 2007
. Retrieved
August 3,
2007
.
- ^
"Tyler Bates Discusses making the Deadpool 2 soundtrack"
. Film Industry Network
. Retrieved
June 10,
2018
.
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"Entertainment"
.
UPROXX
. June 30, 2023.
- ^
"
'Guardians of the Galaxy' Deluxe Edition Soundtrack & Score Album Details | Film Music Reporter"
.
- ^
"Marilyn Manson Streams "Cupid Carries A Gun"
"
. January 7, 2015.
- ^
Interview with Tyler Bates
- ^
"Tyler Bates Biography"
.
tylerbates.com
. Retrieved
January 17,
2018
.
- ^
Tyler Bates [@tyler_bates] (January 17, 2018).
"Dear Friends, the time has come..."
(
Tweet
) – via
Twitter
.
- ^
"ALICE IN CHAINS' JERRY CANTRELL: More 'Brighten' Solo Album Details Revealed"
.
Blabbermouth
. July 30, 2021.
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