The song Face Down had been one that survived the creative process as an incomplete song for a couple years. It was about half of a song (the first half) and even that was morphed a good amount into what it eventually became. The basic parts stayed the same, just modified and refined. It began as a couple riffs that we jammed on in practice a few years back. It was one of those things where Jason had a riff, Jon came up with another on the spot, then a couple more and suddenly we had half a song. The problem was that we soon moved out of that practice spot, played a bunch of shows and got off track with the creative process until we had to stop playing shows for a couple months to focus solely on creating new music.

Once we were able to kick back into high gear with the creative process, we decided to try all different forms of writing songs. Through that effort, the vast majority of the material was created for our new album "Death Throes", as well as the EP that preceded it titled "Seasons of Hate". During that time, we finally got back to work on Face Down and decided to make the second half completely different with the goal to make it still work as a cohesive song. We did all we could with the ideas we had in the first half so we broke it off and took a sharp turn to jam-town. That's where the guitar break comes in before the solo section. Jason and Jon trade off a few solos and it goes into a heavy groove until the song fades.

Lyrically, the song is intense and very aggressive. The topic of the song is revenge and there's a lot of raw emotion in it because it is a sensitive topic. More specifically, it's about revenge on a person or persons that did you wrong. Of course there are certain people (that shall remain unidentified) that helped inspire the lyrics. That being said, the lyrics are also meant for the listener to connect in their own personal way. If we take that angle and write about a personal experience, maybe others can relate to having been screwed over and tasting revenge. It's an outlet to release that aggression instead of through the means of actual revenge because there's always consequence and karma swings both ways. Our music video for the song captures this concept perfectly and there's a strong message in it.

What really makes the essence of this song is the strong collaborative effort between all the band members to give it that Southern Front sound and feel, as well as the heavy lyrical theme that is often associated with our music.