Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates | |
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Bates at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2014 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Tyler L. Bates |
Born |
[1] Los Angeles, California, United States | June 5, 1965
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | |
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.[2] 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.
Biography
Film scoring
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.
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. Before any of the cinematography actually 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 a fair bit of cooperation between Bates and Gunn in advance since these scores would not only be the final piece, instead of a temporary filler acting as a place holder, but they also influenced the actual performance of everyone on set. This amount of work and effort required a massive undertaking by both Bates and his team. For 4 months, they clocked upwards of 100-hour work weeks to produce this finished product.[3] After all the work, they had a total of 29 different soundtracks giving a combined total of 64:34 of music.[4] "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.
Video game scoring
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.
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 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.[5]
He left Marilyn Manson in April 2015 to resume film work.
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 & Rolling Stone included 'The Pale Emperor' in its Top 50 list of the best albums of 2015. He will return as lead guitarist during the tour with Slipknot in July 2016. [6]
Works
Film score
Year | Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Notes |
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1993 | Blue Flame | Cassian Elwes |
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Composed with George Andrian |
1994 | Tammy and the T-Rex | Stewart Raffill |
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Composed with Jack Conrad and Anthony Riparetti |
1995 | Deep Down | John Travers |
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N/A |
1995 | Ballistic | Kim Bass | N/A | N/A |
1995 | Not Like Us | Dave Payne | N/A | |
1995 | Criminal Hearts | Dave Payne | N/A | |
1997 | The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Stephen T. Kay |
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N/A |
1998 | Denial | Adam Rifkin |
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N/A |
1998 | Suicide, the Comedy | Glen Freyer |
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N/A |
1999 | Born Bad | Jeff Yonis |
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N/A |
1999 | Thicker than Water | Richard Cummings, Jr |
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Composed with Quincy Jones III |
2000 | Get Carter | Stephen Kay | N/A | |
2000 | Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth | John Blanchard | N/A | |
2001 | Kingdom Come | Doug McHenry |
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Composed with John E. Rhone |
2001 | What's the Worst That Could Happen? | Sam Weisman |
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N/A |
2001 | Night at the Golden Eagle | Adam Rifkin | N/A | |
2002 | Lone Star State of Mind | David Semel | N/A | |
2002 | Love and a Bullet | Ben Ramsey Kantz |
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Composed with Wolfgang Matthes |
2002 | City of Ghosts | Matt Dillon | N/A | |
2002 | Half Past Dead | Don Michael Paul |
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N/A |
2003 | Baadasssss! | Mario Van Peebles |
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N/A |
2004 | You Got Served | Chris Stokes |
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N/A |
2004 | Dawn of the Dead | Zack Snyder |
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N/A |
2005 | The Devil's Rejects | Rob Zombie |
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N/A |
2006 | Slither | James Gunn |
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N/A |
2006 | See No Evil | Gregory Dark | N/A | |
2006 | 300 | Zack Snyder |
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N/A |
2007 | Grindhouse | Various | Composed with Robert Rodriguez, Graeme Revell, Carl Thiel, David Arnold and Nathan Barr | |
2007 | Halloween | Rob Zombie |
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Themes by John Carpenter |
2008 | Doomsday | Neil Marshall |
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N/A |
2008 | Day of the Dead | Steve Miner | N/A | |
2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Scott Derrickson | N/A | |
2009 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | N/A | |
2009 | Halloween II | Rob Zombie |
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N/A |
2009 | The Haunted World of El Superbeasto | Rob Zombie | N/A | |
2010 | Super | James Gunn | N/A | |
2010 | The Way | Emilio Estevez |
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N/A |
2011 | Sucker Punch | Zack Snyder |
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Composed with Marius de Vries |
2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Marcus Nispel |
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N/A |
2011 | Killer Joe | William Friedkin | N/A | |
2011 | The Darkest Hour | Chris Gorak |
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N/A |
2013 | Movie 43 | Various |
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Composed with Christophe Beck, David J. Hodge, Leo Birenberg and William Goodrum |
2013 | The Sacrament | Ti West |
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N/A |
2014 | Not Safe for Work | Joe Johnston | N/A | |
2014 | Flight 7500 | Takashi Shimizu |
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N/A |
2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | N/A | |
2014 | John Wick | Chad Stahelski |
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Composed with Joel J. Richard |
2016 | The Belko Experiment | Greg McLean | N/A | |
2017 | John Wick: Chapter Two | Chad Stahelski |
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N/A |
2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | James Gunn | N/A | |
2017 | The Coldest City | David Leitch | N/A |
TV show soundtracks
- Californication
- "Hank's Theme"
- "Dale's Energy"
- "Title Theme"
- Hysteria
- PG Porn
- Sym-Bionic Titan
- Kingdom
Video games soundtracks
- God of War: Ascension
- Rise of the Argonauts
- Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
- Army of Two: The 40th Day
- Transformers: War For Cybertron
- Killzone Shadow Fall
Own work
with Marilyn Manson
- The Pale Emperor (2015)
- Say10 (2017)
References
- ↑ "familysearch.org". Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "Famed Composer Tyler Bates to Score ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY.". Leisure and Travel Week – via Highbeam (subscription required) . October 31, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
- ↑ Hitfix
- ↑ Filmmusicreporter.com
- ↑ Marilyn Manson Streams “Cupid Carries A Gun”
- ↑ Interview with Tyler Bates
External links
- Tyler Bates' Website (includes samples of music and many video clips from movies worked on)
- Tyler Bates at the Internet Movie Database
- Tyler Bates Interview on KCRW featuring Watchmen Soundtrack
- Tyler Bates being interviewed at the Grammy Museum
- Shock Till you Drop Exclusive Interview
- Tyler Bate Interview at www.reviewgraveard.com