We are excited to announce the signing of Indiana based band The Burial. Their debut SFR album “The Winepress” will be released on August 17th and is a metal soundtrack for aggressive spiritual warfare. Check out some music on their myspace page and stay posted for summer tour dates and more news.

Below is the schedule for the annual Facedown Night @ Cornerstone, as well as a Facedown Day on the Solace Stage on Friday, July 2.

Facedown Night – Underground Stage – Thursday, July 1

My Epic 5:10 – 5:40 pm
A Hope For Home 6:00 – 6:30 pm
Take It Back! 6:45 – 7:15 pm
Hands 7:30 – 8:00 pm
Call To Preserve 8:15 – 8:45 pm
In The Midst Of Lions 9:00 – 9:40 pm
A Plea For Purging 9:55 – 10:35 pm
For Today 10:50 -11:30 pm
Impending Doom 12:00 – 1:00 am

Facedown Day – Solace Stage – Friday, July 2

As Hell Retreats 12:00pm
Hope For The Dying 12:45pm
Your Memorial 1:30pm
Onward To Olympas 2:15pm
The Burial 3:00pm
A Hope For Home 3:45pm
Hands 4:30pm
Take It Back 5:15pm
Call To Preserve 6:00pm
Overcome 6:45pm
War Of Ages 7:30pm

*** Make sure to check out the Cornerstone website for information on when more of our bands are playing as well.

The brand new Call To Preserve album “Life Of Defiance” is in stores and online today. Pick up a CD copy at Hot Topic, Hastings, or FYE (select stores), or you can get a copy online on iTunes or the Facedown Records online store. Call To Preserve will be on the road starting this weekend so make sure to check out the dates in our tours section.

You can now pre-order the upcoming Impending Doom album “There Will Be Violence”. Multiple options are available including limited edition blue colored vinyl that is limited to only 500 copies! Check out all of the bundles in our online store. Impending Doom have a new song titled “The Great Fear” on their myspace right now, make sure to check it out.

Our friends and Come & Live are hosting a free tour sampler download for the “Hunger & Thirst Tour” that is going on right now with My Epic, A Hope For Home and So Long Forgotten. The sampler features a free MP3 from each band. Click here to download it and make sure to check out this tour if it’s coming to a city near you. It features 3 great bands and is for a great cause.

My Epic has just launched the pre-order for their new album “Yet”. Every pre-order comes with 2 additional copies of the album at no extra cost so you can share them with family, friends, or anyone else who you think might be blessed by this album. There are a few different pre-order bundle packages that include some new shirt designs, so head over to the Facedown store and check them out. If you have not listened to their new song “Lower Still” yet, then make sure to give it a listen on the bands myspace page. My Epic will be out on tour starting this week with A Hope For Home and So Long Forgotten on the “Hunger & Thirst Tour”. Check out the dates in the tours section.

We are happy to announce that Impending Doom are a part of this summer’s Thrash And Burn tour with Born Of Osiris, Asking Alexandria, Kittie, Stick To Your Guns, Evergreen Terrace and many more!  Check out all of the tour dates in our tours section.  Impending Doom will be supporting their new album “There Will Be Violence” which will be out on July 20.

You can now pre-order the upcoming album from A Plea For Purging titled “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”. There are multiple pre-order options available including two different T-shirt designs and ultra limited red vinyl (only 500 made!). Check out all of the options now in our online store.

“The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell” comes out on July 6.

Check out the first new song posted from A Plea For Purging titled “The Eternal Female” on the bands myspace. This is from their upcoming album “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell” which will be out on July 6. Be checking back next week for pre-orders and make sure to check PLEA out this summer on the Scream The Prayer Tour.

We are honored to bring to you the newest member of the Facedown Family: Your Memorial. Your Memorial come to Facedown from Twin Cities, MN, bearing their self released debut album Seasons, and sporting an impressive touring history. Coming up in the shadow of such hometown bands as Disembodied and Martyr A.D., Your Memorial recognized the advantage of following the path blazed by the genre patriarchs and seized the opportunity and the inspiration to make their own indelible mark on the genre. Your Memorial do just that with their brand of progressive crushing rhythms that meld into ambient swells of melody. Although their influences span the genre spectrum, their impassioned laser-focus is what makes Your Memorial a stand-out metal act.

Guitarist Willy Weigel gives a peek behind the curtain of the writing process. “Coming into writing the new album we had one main goal in mind, to write songs with more interesting structure and flow while still creating a dynamic listening experience. We feel like these songs couldn’t achieve that goal any better and we’re really excited to get into the studio to record.” Your Memorial will be releasing their debut Facedown album in the winter of 2010.

Check out their music on their myspace here.