What does Facedown mean to me? They're my favorite record label, hands down. The only record label I can say with honesty that they've never put out a bad release. I remember waiting in line for festivals and shows growing up and dudes would walk the line handing out stickers and sampler CDs and that's how I first heard about them. I forget when I fully jumped on board as a super fan, but I think they just won me over with how consistent they were in releases. They always had something new dropping and it was always top tier. I still have the first Facedown Records shirt I bought at Purple Door Festival in the early 2000s. The more I started looking into the label and talking to people involved with it, I realized that they take the "Facedown Family" slogan seriously. They operate like a family business and it shows. Starting the online fan group (Facedown Family Appreciation Club) and getting closer to the bands and talking to Jason Dunn, you realize that it's that mentality that makes the label special: it's a family.

Honorable mentions: Give Me Rest by Hands, For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming by Comrades, They Attack At Dawn by Bloody Sunday, The Serpent Servant by Impending Doom, and And My Eyes Shall Weep by Indwelling. --- David