Unlocking The Truth
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SXSW 2015 Day One: St. Patrick’s Day
Dirty Dog Bar hosted the night’s show. The bar will host metal showcases through most of the duration of South By Southwest. The Dirty Dog is located on Sixth Street, a place of reputed drunken revelry due to so many bars lining its streets. Alcohol consumption was in full force tonight being Saint Patrick’s day. Hordes of green clad patrons wearing beads walked from bar to bar, sometimes with the assistance of others, seeking hops and other beverages. The drunkenness wasn’t too obnoxious, but when you introduce this much alcohol fights are bound to occur. One happened right on the sidewalk next to the venue. The initial crowd inside the bar was somewhat docile.
Before focusing on the bands at the Dirty Dog, I want to revisit some of my activities from days prior. SXSW is not just devoted to music. There is a film, education and interactive portion. On Sunday, two days after the start of film portion, I got my picture taken on the throne from Game of Thrones. It took us about an hour to get through the line to have a few seconds to take a picture. I thought the throne looked more realistic on TV only because we’re just seeing the top portion on screen. Once it was done I received a “mix tape” that was nothing more than cheap ear buds. We left the “SXSWestoros” exhibit on 5th Street and made our way to Congress to visit Robert Rodriguez’s museum. He had artwork by fantasy painter Frank Frazetta on display. The detail was much sharper in his paintings than his posters and book cover art. It was interesting to see the paintings that inspired the look of Conan The Barbarian. More...
Metal Youngsters Unlocking The Truth Leaving Sony
Unlocking The Truth from Flatbush, Brooklyn is severing ties with Sony Music, less than a year after signing a record deal with the major label. States guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse at the world premiere of "Breaking A Monster", a documentary about the band's rise to success: "Our attorneys are working on our exit from Sony now."
Band manager Alan Sacks also confirmed to Billboard.com the group was in the process of leaving Sony. The members of Unlocking The Truth as is known got permission from a New York judge in July 2014 to sign the record deal with Sony Music. The musicians needed the judge's approval because they are minors.
Unlocking The Truth has already played the Coachella and Heavy Montreal festival and has supported Guns N' Roses.
SXSW 2015 Metal Showcases Revealed
Metal bands at SXSW and metal showcases have been released to the public. The Dirty Dog Bar is a major player at this year's festivities. Both Metalsucks.net's South By South Death and Metal Injection's showcases will take place in this venue. Saturday offers three big shows and a chance to see some bands such as The Skull and Goatsnake twice. More...
Lacuna Coil Gears Up For Tour With Devil You Know
Lacuna Coil is continuing a world tour in support of the band's latest Century Media release, "Broken Crown Halo" (reviewed here), with a run of dates in the U.S. and Canada starting in Sacramento at this year's Aftershock Festival.
Devil You Know is set to support the entire tour and Starset is also appearing Sept. 23 - Oct. 12 except Oct. 7 & 8, where Unlocking The Truth will join for those two nights. Up and coming Canadian band Incura has been added to all Canadian shows.
Lacuna Coil also recently premiered a video for "Nothing Stands In Our Way" from "Broken Crown Halo." Check out the video after the tour dates. More...
Middle School Metal Band Signs With Sony
Unlocking the Truth - a band composed of 12 and 13 year olds - posted a video on YouTube (available below) of the band jamming in Times Square that caught the attention of Sony and netted an unexpected record deal.
NY Daily News reports the band will be releasing at least two albums via Sony. An excerpt from the article follows:
Sony has committed to producing at least two albums with Unlocking the Truth — and it has an option for four more records.
Guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse, 13, bassist Alec Atkins, 13, and drummer Jarad Dawkins, 12 — who have played at gigs all over the country, including appearances at Coachella festival in California and opening for Guns N’ Roses — are promised an advance of $60,000 for their first recording. The second record could net them an advance as much as $350,000.
If Sony sticks with them for all six albums, the kids could be raking in as much as $1.7 million.
Read the full article at NY Daily News.