Career
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). Tyler also worked with James on The Belko Experiment due for release in 2016 and has started work on Guardians of the Galaxy Volume(s).2.
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 Number 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 Foreign 4 months, they clocked upwards of 100 hour work weeks to produce this finished product.
After all the work, they had a total of 29 different soundtracks giving a combined total of 64:34 of music "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 and, as well as the PlayStation 4 game. Other projects In 2014, Bates co-wrote & 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 television show, and Bates composed the show"s score. 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" Number.
1 best rock track & Rolling Stone included "The Pale Emperor" in it"s Top 50 list of the best albums of 2015.
Video games soundtracks Own work With Marilyn Manson.
