Tyler Bates is an award-winning American composer, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive fusion of orchestral composition, electronics, and rock has helped define the sound of contemporary cinema and television. With a career spanning more than three decades, Bates has collaborated with filmmakers including Ti West, Zack Snyder, James Gunn, Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, Scott Derrickson, Stephen Kay, and Genndy Tartakovsky, and with artists including Marilyn Manson, Jerry Cantrell, Evanescence, Bush, In This Moment, Mastodon, and GUNSHIP.

His film credits include the John Wick franchise, 300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, The Day the Earth Stood Still, X, Pearl, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and The Devil’s Rejects. His work has contributed to more than a dozen films that reached number one at the box office and collectively generated billions of dollars worldwide.

Bates’ score for 300, with its powerful blend of orchestra, electronics, and distorted guitar, helped establish a new sonic language for modern action cinema. His collaborations with James Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 demonstrated his ability to integrate music into the filmmaking process at an early stage, using score to shape pacing, character, and emotional tone.

Beyond film, Bates has composed for television, animation, and video games, including Primal, Samurai Jack, Californication, The Purge, Tracker, God of War: Ascension, and Far Cry 6. He has also toured internationally, performing more than 300 concerts as lead guitarist in support of albums he produced for Marilyn Manson and Jerry Cantrell.

From his early work with the band Pet to his extensive career in film scoring and music production, Bates has consistently pushed the boundaries between genres. His signature sound combines orchestral scale, electronic experimentation, and visceral rock energy to create emotionally powerful music that is unmistakably his own.