Effective period / Period of releases: 2005 - 2011

Members: Patrick Kindlon, Sean Doody, Andrew Duggan, Eric Busta, Hans Leibold, Chris Tenerowicz, Benjamin Tate, Mike Brandenburg, Steve Hegner, Mark O'Brien (6), Seth Sauca, Nick Warchol

End of a Year are a post-punk/post-hardcore outfit with members from across the United States and England.

The group formed in 2003 under the name "End of a Year" derived from an Embrace song of the same name. After the release of their 2010 album You Are Beneath Me, the group wanted to change their name to "Self Defense". In late 2010, the band announced that they would be "reformatting" the group to officially include all touring and session musicians they had worked with up to that point as well as changing the group's name to Self Defense Family.