Artists - PAX217

"Engage! Tell your story to the world. Engage! Let your actions speak love"

Some bands turn to rock music as an escape, a refuge from the pressures and torments of the real world. For others - and this batch includes the vast majority of what passes for hard rock on mainstream radio and MTV these days - it's a platform for airing frustration, a soapbox for venting anger and demons. "I hurt," they scream or bark out in bursts of rap. "Share my pain, feel my fury."

Against this tide of escapist rage, the five young men of PAX217 offer a fresh perspective. Their music is as tight a fusion of metal and hip-hop rhythms as anything on the radio today, but their message is what hits home the hardest. And it hits not like a hail of grievances, but rather as a positive instrument for change, for hope. It's a message aptly summed up in a single word, which is appropriately the name of the band's second album on ForeFront Records: Engage.

"Most of the time when you think of the word "engage," you think of going to battle or going to war," says lead singer and songwriter Dave Tosti. "But there's a bunch of different definitions for it, and one of them is "to attract and ho...Read complete biography

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