Tyler Bates is a music producer and composer for films, television, and video games. His recent work includes James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, which has become one of the highest grossing domestic movies of 2014. Bates previously scored Gunn's movies Slither (2006) and Super (2010). Bates also worked with Gunn on The Belko Experiment due for release in 2016 and has started work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. He was the composer of the music featured in all ten episodes of Season 5 (2017).