Unlocking the Truth is a metal band made up of three friends who have known each other since pre-school.
Now, not even a full decade later, they've got a multi-record deal from Sony Music, reportedly worth nearly $1.8 million, CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason reports.
Their rock sessions began as play dates when they were barely five years old.
Guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse, now 13, and drummer Jarad Dawkins, now 12, would spend hours in the basement practicing the heavy metal sounds they heard on TV, all while dreaming about the stadiums they'd play when they would one day go on tour.
"We used to perform in our basement but act like we were performing at those places," Brickhouse said, "because we had a wild imagination back then."
Brickhouse and Dawkins, along with another pre-school pal, 13-year-old bass player Alec Atkins, make up the heavy metal band Unlocking the Truth.
Today they're gearing up for their fourth show of the Vans Warped Tour outside Pittsburgh.
"If the crowd is motivated, I'm motivated," Dawkins said. "I'm excited that the crowd hears our music and that they hear our music that they love."
The band's first break came in March of 2012, when they took the stage of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater for amateur night.
But it was their street performances in New York City's Times Square and Washington Square Park that launched their career.
The band plans to start recording their first album later this month. And they've got one more big summer highlight ahead: one of their idols, Metallica, invited the band to perform on their August 9th show in Montreal.
