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Out of the ashes of a royal collapse with previous band and management company, Ashley R.Rivers; musician-painter-sculptor-photographer-composer-poet-writer-lover, set out to start a new band free from corporate control. Thus Saint Vitus Stance was born= theatre, dance, poetics, sounds and words deeply rooted in the surreal. " I have always found music to be deeply visual, something that is not only to be theatrical in performance but to conjure images relevant to the listener making the sounds somehow personal to everyone"... Surrealist Art Rock. The live show is dark, melodic, sparse, energetic, visual and distorted performed with a projected backdrop of Art and images by Ashley. "This is not just music, this is Art, this is a way of life, this is about expressing yourself in a world that does not care, but the real horror is the thought of not taking your art out into the world..."