Unlocking The Truth - Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins

Kriss Kross this isn’t. Lock up your daughters, America: these sixth-grade metalheads from Flatbush, Brooklyn are on a mission to rock your socks off. More on www.theavantgardediaries.com

Directed by Luke Meyer / Produced by Julia Wilczok & Tom Davis / Director of Photography: Hillary Spera / Camera Assistant: Matt Burke /Additional Filming by Luke Meyer / Location Sound Recordist: Guillermo Hernan Peña-Tapia / Edited by Harry Nelson / Music by Unlocking The Truth / Sound mix by Eben Bull / Special Thanks to Annette Jackson & Tracey Brickhouse

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I've known him since I was four,

we met at a birthday party.

I asked him *"do you wanna start a band?"*

Ever since then, we write about things in our life,

about school,

also, we write love songs

about relationships we deal with.

I know it's a little grown up,

but we just still do it cause that's what we like to do.

We have our fake tours at home...

Madison Square Garden, Fairbanks Plaza...

We imagine that we're performing at those places,

but actually we're just performing in our basement.

[* loud heavy metal 4/4 time guitar and drums...* ]

Usually a kid band,
they would sound, like, they're kids,

like they just started playing instruments,

but us, when they actually see us,

they think that we're 30 years old.

I don't like doing the same thing that everybody else is doing, I wanna do my own thing.

Since I wear nail polish,
which is not normal for most boys to wear,

not really get bullied... but people bother me about it.

At times it offends me, at times it doesn't,

so I just write songs about it.

Most people listen to hip-hop music,

there's not a lot of people
that really listen to metal any more.

We wouldn't see kids like us
actually picking our own genre.

It's something that we will be known for.

I know a lot of people doubt me,

but then I really don't listen to those people.

Cause I know I'm gonna be famous anyway.

Now I'm writing a book.

The book is about people
who are being bullied in school,

and they joined a band,

and they have became rich and famous,

and they toured all over the world.

And people that judged them,
they have became homeless.

And... it's like based on a true story.

[* loud heavy metal guitar and drums...* ]

We do wanna inspire other people.

Don't let nobody push you down.

Be free, do what you wanna do.

Just, be yourself.

And do what you do best.