'Unlocking The Truth' Band: Brooklyn Eighth-Graders Land Record Deal With Sony
Three Brooklynites have signed a record deal with Sony before finishing middle school.
Unlocking The Truth, made up of bassist Alec Atkins, 13, drummer Jarad Dawkins, 12, and guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse, 13, will have at least two Sony-produced albums, according to New York Daily News.
They could record four more albums, which would add up to $1.7 million. The trio has received a $60,000 advance for the first album, and the second one could get the group $350,000.
"It's so exciting. We're jumping over the moon," said Tabatha Dawkins, Jarad's mother. "What started out as play dates went to Times Square and now this. It's been one great thing after another."
The group was discovered by Steve Jordan, Eric Clapton's drummer, in 2012. The boys performed at the Apollo Theater, Webster Hall and the Coachella music festival.
In June, Unlocking the Truth opened for Guns N' Roses, and it will be opening for Queens of the Stone Age.
The band is touring the nation with the Vans Warped Tour.
All three boys sing and have been taking voice lessons since their voices started to change.
The band is inspired by Slipknot, Metallica, Living Colour, Disturbed, Motionless in White and Escape the Fate, according to its website.
The group says it has enough material for three albums and that this month it will be recording its first album.
"Unlocking the Truth's goal is to become one of the world's best metal bands, and with their music, they want people to know that they could do what they want, no matter who they are, or what people say," the website continues. "Just be free as you want to be!"
It adds that "Metal is in their blood."
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