Tyler Bates

Tyler Bates (born June 5, 1965) is an American musician, music producer, and composer who composed the score for Transformers: War for Cybertron. Much of his work is in the action and horror film genres, with films like Dawn of the Dead, 300, Sucker Punch, John Wick, and the ever-popular Deadpool sequel. He has collaborated with several directors such as Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie, Neil Marshall, William Friedkin, Scott Derrickson, James Gunn, Joe Johnston, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. With Gunn, he has scored every one of the director's films; including Guardians of the Galaxy, which became one of the highest grossing domestic films of 2014, and its 2017 sequel. In addition, he is also the lead guitarist of the American rock band Marilyn Manson, and produced its albums The Pale Emperor and Heaven Upside Down.

He is not Brian Tyler.