For some reason creating a block that has a front texture bound to SOUTH doesn't seem to work. The meta data is being placed correctly, its just not rendering the correct side in game.

Here is my code. If I'm doing something wrong then sorry about that.
https://github.com/TeamBR-Modding/ModernAlchemy/blob/Trying-out-openmods/src/main/java/com/dyonovan/modernalchemy/blocks/machines/BlockAmalgamator.java