Utilizing frantic, uncompromising rhythms and a variety
of nightmarish samples, Austin, Texas, duo
Street Sects
create a
feverish marriage of  industrial music and punk
rock
. Their debut album,
End Position
,
is a meditation on
suicide fantasy—both the means and the cause.
In 2013, after emerging from the fog of a thirteen
year battle with addiction and homelessness,
Street
Sects
vocalist
Leo Ashline
 began collaborating with friend
and multi-instrumentalist
Shaun Ringsmuth
. Disgusted
with life but eager for catharsis, the duo embraced the
experimental attitude and disillusionment of early industrial
music, eschewing traditional rock instrumentation and
arrangement in favor of modern sampling technology
and
harsh electronics
. Together they released a series of
singles (
Gentrification I
 and
II
) and honed their fierce and
confrontational live performance, eventually writing and
recording what would become
End Position
. Ashline’s
pessimistic lyrics explore an array of intense, personal
obsessions and the violence inherent in modern life.
End
Position
is a provocative existential statement on
the
bleeding-edge of extreme music
.