These kids don’t have a $1.8 million deal. They have a deal that might get them over a million in advances for several albums if sales of each album warrant a big investment in the next. Until that happens these kids’ parents have just been suckered in borrowing tens of thousands of dollars from record label sleazebags under what are likely horrible terms on the off chance that the kids can crank out a hit metal album—and hit metal albums are almost nonexistent in 2014.