Unlocking the Truth: Sony's Barely Teenage Metal Band

Malcolm Brickhouse doesn’t want to do this interview. He was up until 1 a.m. last night playing Grand Theft Auto V with his bandmates, Alec Atkins and Jarad Dawkins. Then he spent all morning in a Manhattan courthouse, where a judge approved the five-album, $1.8 million record deal that Sony recently offered his band, Unlocking the Truth. Atkins and Dawkins sit on a sofa in Sony’s offices, drinking Vitaminwater and waiting for Brickhouse to join them. But he refuses to. He slumps on a beanbag chair in the corner of the room, tapping away on his smartphone until his manager comes over and takes it away. Do the interview, he tells Brickhouse, and then he can have his phone back.