The brand new album from War Of Ages titled “Eternal” will be released on April 13, 2010. You can check out all of the exclusive pre-order options now in our online store. There will be a very limited pressing of colored vinyl copies made (only 500!), so make sure to check that pre-order option out so you don’t miss out on these very rare records. Also, all pre-orders will be entered to win a test pressing of the vinyl (only 5 made) and a $200 Facedown Records shopping spree! You can hear a brand new song from the album called “Desire” on the bands myspace. Check that out and stay posted for some big touring news that will be announced shortly.

You can now download our FREE Spring 2010 Facedown sampler. This sampler features 13 tracks from 13 different bands on Facedown and Strike First Records and includes unreleased new music from War Of Ages, A Hope For Home, Wrench In The Works and Letter To The Exiles, as well as songs from For Today, Impending Doom, Onward To Olympas, Sleeping Giant, A Plea For Purging and more! Check it out here and make sure to enter code “FACEDOWN”. Spread the word!

Myspace Metal is premiering the brand new video from For Today for the song “Saul Of Tarsus (The Messenger”). Check it out here and spread the word. For Today just recently finished a tour with Winds Of Plague and will be playing Bamboozle in California at the end of this month followed by some US and Mexico headlining shows. Check out our tours section for more info.

A Hope For Home just posted a new song titled “The Machine Stops”. It’s from their Facedown debut “Realis” that you can pre-order right now in our online store. Multiple pre-order options are available including the CD and your choice of 2 brand new AHFH shirts for only $14.99! Click here to check those out. “Realis” will be released on March 30 and the band will be supporting the album as part of the Facedown Records “Young & Wreckless” tour this spring.

Sleeping Giant will be apart of this years Spring Breakdown Tour with Bleeding Through, Born Of Osiris, Oceano, Legend and more.  Check out all of the dates in our tours section.

We are happy to announce that For Today and Impending Doom will both be playing this years Bamboozle Festival in Anaheim, CA alongside of AFI, Angels And Airwaves, Chiodos, Bouncing Souls and many, many more.  To get more info or to buy tickets, check out the Bamboozle website: www.thebamboozle.com

Wrench in the Works just released a song from their upcoming album “Decrease/Increase”.  The song, called “Project AK-47” is about child soldiers and was inspired by the organization of the same name.  Here the band explains why this project means so much to them:

“This past Cornerstone Festival we learned about the ministry Project AK-47 and what they are all about.  It really just hit close to home for us as a band and we felt a Godly calling to support them and bring awareness to people – even to the point of us writing a song called “Project AK-47″ on our new record which is inspired by the ministry.  Basically the calling they have is to save child soldiers in southeast Asia (over 300,000 kids) who have been kidnapped, orphaned or deceitfully recruited to serve as soldiers in government armies or drug cartels; for $7 you can help save a child through them.  Just think about what you were doing at age 7 or your little brother or sister or nephew or niece and then think about yourself or them training with a machine gun.  It makes my stomach turn to think about what these kids go through and the fear they must face everyday.”

You can find out more about Project AK-47 here:  http://www.projectak47.com/ and you can hear WITW’s new song here:  http://myspace.com/wrenchintheworks

The new album “Decrease/Increase” releases March 16.  Says Andy Nelson of WITW’s latest effort:  “The record was meticulously written and recorded with a vision to blow away our last record technically, musically, and lyrically.  We honed in on the strengths of the band and weeded out the weaknesses and we are pumped about the end result.”

We are very excited to announce that Call To Preserve will be touring Europe from March 28 – April 24 in support of New York Hardcore legends Agnostic Front. This is Hell is also on all of the dates as well. Make sure to check these shows out. You can see all the info in our tours section . In other Call To Preserve news, they will be recording a new full length album in March (before heading over to Europe) that will see an early summer release. More will be posted about that album soon.

We are happy to announce the Facedown Records “Young & Wreckless Tour” that spotlights our up and coming bands.  This will be a full US tour that kicks off in mid March and runs through April.  The tour consists of In The Midst Of Lions, Hands, A Hope For Home and Onward To Olympas.  Check out the tours section for all the dates and make sure to check out all 4 of these great bands.  The “Young & Wreckless Tour” is brought to you by Outburn Magazine, Merch Now and Black Rose District Clothing.

The debut album from Onward To Olympas is out now!  Magazines and fans have amazing things to say about this young bands debut so make sure to check it out today.  You can pick up a physical CD copy at Hot Topic, Hastings, FYE (select stores), Best Buy (North Carolina stores), and at these indie locations: Bull Moose, Gray Whale, Angelos, Independent Records, Newbury Comics, Exclusive, Waterloo and Zia.  As always, you can pick it up along with merch from the band in the Facedown Records online store, or you can buy the album digitally through iTunes or Amazon MP3.