Tyler Bates

Tyler Bates is a music producer and composer for films. His most known work includes "The Hangman's Song" and various other tracks from the zombie horror film Dawn of the Dead, and 2008's Day of the Dead. Other projects include Rob Zombie's Halloween, Halloween II, The Devil's Rejects, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, and Sucker Punch; Neil Marshall's Doomsday, See No Evil and Slither.

Copyright issues

Bates' score for 300 borrowed elements from Elliot Goldenthal's 1999 score for Titus, giving rise to some controversy in the film composer community. The cue "Remember Us" is identical in parts to the "Finale" from Titus, and the cue "Returns A King" is similar to "Victorius Titus." On August 3, 2007, Warner Bros. Pictures acknowledged in an official statement:

... a number of the music cues for the score of 300 were, without our knowledge or participation, derived from music composed by Academy Award winning composer Elliot Goldenthal for the motion picture Titus. Warner Bros. Pictures has great respect for Elliot, our longtime collaborator, and is pleased to have amicably resolved this matter.

Since then, the studio has added an asterisk to Bates' name on further releases of the film and soundtrack, along with the disclaimer "*Derived in Part from Preexisting Compositions Not Authored by Tyler Bates."

Discography

Film soundtracks

• The Way
• Super
• The Darkest Hour
• Conan the Barbarian
• Sucker Punch
• The Crow: City of Angels
• Slither
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Dawn of the Dead
  • "The Hangman's Song"
  • "How Will Your God Judge You?"
  • "America Always Sorts Out Its Shit"
  • "That Dog's Just Fucked Up"
  • "Subterannean Sewer Attack"
• The Stand
  • "300" (promo short)
• The Devil's Rejects
  • "Shootout"
  • "Staples"
  • "Another Failed Escape"
  • "Mama Pulls the Trigger"
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide
• City of Ghosts
• Goodnight
• BAADASSSSS!
  • "Angel Muse"
  • "Bills' L.A. River Stunt"
• Get Carter
  • "Main Titles"
  • "House Of Cards"
  • World Upside Down
• The Dead Will Tell
  • "Emily Investigates"
  • "I Had A Breakdown"
• Night at the Golden Eagle
  • "Gabriel"
  • Closet Voyeur"
• Wasted
  • "Back On Junk"
• See No Evil
  • "Making a Monster"
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth
• Halloween
• 300
• Doomsday
• Watchmen
• The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (along with comedy duo Hard n' Phirm)
• Halloween II

TV Show soundtracks

• Californication
  • "Hank's Theme"
  • "Dale's Energy"
  • "Title Theme"
• PG Porn

Video games soundtracks

• Rise of the Argonauts
• Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
• Army of Two: The 40th Day
• Transformers: War For Cybertron
• God of War IV

Own work

• Roseland with Azam Ali

External links

• Tyler Bates' Website (includes samples of music and many video clips from movies worked on)
• Tyler Bates at the Internet Movie Database