High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 300 and Watchmen, Neil Marshall's Doomsday, See No Evil and Slither. Tyler Bates spent his formative years in Chicago, developing his keen obsession with music. An avid enthusiast, his mother introduced him to a wide range of recording artists; from Zappa to Coltrane, Simon and Garfunkel to Sly Stone. The soundtrack albums for the Broadway musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar left an impression upon him, both compositionally and emotionally.