[3] In October 2004, Geoff Rickly, who met the group while in a hot dog restaurant in the West Village,[4] signed The Blackout Pact to the indie label Astro Magnetics.
Former frontman Mike Herrera played guitar and shared vocals in a project called Sleeper Horse, which completed a mid-west tour and opened for The Draft, Gaslight Anthem and others before disbanding in 2007.
Herrera then shared vocals and played banjo, mandolin and harmonica in the folk/punk outfit Tin Horn Prayer, which released their second LP, Grapple The Rails, via Paper + Plastick in October 2012.
Herrera also played guitar in the math rock group, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill.
On October 6, 2015, Herrera died in his sleep at the age of 33, ending any future plans for The Blackout Pact to continue.