Free Music Friday: Tyler Bates

Tyler Bates has been scoring movies for about 10 years now but he's managed to stay under the radar until Zach Snyder hired him to score '300', which opens today (please see the previous post for a look at that score). Snyder used him previously on 'Dawn of the Dead' and he did the music for Rob Zombie's 'The Devil's Rejects'.

I haven't heard much of Bates' output yet; I have the score for 'Dawn' but haven't listened to it much, as well as '300' which I have been playing non-stop; it is a great score (again, see below) and has a lot of replay value.

You can find samples of Bates' musical output in a flash music player located in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and most are downloadable including selections from 'The Devil's Rejects', 'Slither', 'Dawn of the Dead' and others.

He has 'Day of the Dead' coming out in April and Zombie has since rehired Bates to score his upcoming remake of 'Halloween'. He is also currently attached to Snyder's adaptation of the comic series 'Watchmen'.

Click this post's title for a link to his official website and leave me a comment to let me know what you think.

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