Tyler Bates: Priapic Throb and Unmuffled Exhaust (opens in new tab)

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses how the music for the John Wick franchise serves a preoccupation with stunt-based machismo In 2014, Tyler Bates became the principle guitarist in Marilyn Manson, some 15 years after the group was formed. By that stage, he had well established himself as a film composer through strong relationships with Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie and James Gunn across the preceding decade. While attracting sizeable pools of haters and worsh...