The Blackout Pact
OriginDenver, Colorado
GenresPost-Hardcore, Punk, Alternative[1]
Years active2003–2006, 2008–2016
LabelsEyeball Records
MembersMike Herrera
Cory Trendler
Joe Ramirez
Billy Joe Bailey
Wisam Alshaibi
Seth Piracci
Past membersJustin Hackl
Ian Johnsen
Mike Delmonico
Nate Reisig

The Blackout Pact is a post-hardcore band from Denver, Colorado. They formed in the early summer of 2003. The band is influenced by Hot Water Music, Refused, and Jawbox.[2]

History

The group came together in Denver, but soon after moved to the New York/New Jersey area.[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. Rickly also produced their first CD Hello Sailor.[5] They went on to tour with such bands as Fight Paris, Drowningman, The Lawrence Arms, The Fall of Troy, Folly, The Draft, Rise Against, The Number 12 Looks Like You, Yellowcard, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Silverstein, Mae and more. In 2005 they released a video to the song "We Drink So You Don't Have to."

December 2008, as reported newly on their Myspace site, The Blackout Pact have decided to come back from the hiatus and start recording again. Now with a new label: Eyeball Records. The band will start recording in January 2009, and the releasing date is expected to be on spring of the same year. The new EP will be called "Wolves In The Lazarette". This will be the second release material since the 2005 Hello Sailor album.

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. Their first album, Get Busy Dying, was released in 2010 on Bermuda Mohawk Productions. 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, seemingly ending any future plans for The Blackout Pact to continue.[6][7]

Band members

  • Mike Herrera - Vocals
  • Cory Trendler - Guitar/Backing Vocals
  • Joe Ramirez - Guitar
  • Billy Joe Bailey - Bass/Backing Vocals
  • Wisam Alshaibi - Drums
  • Seth Piracci - Spiritual Advisor
  • Ian Johnsen - Guitar/vocals
  • Mike Delmonico - Guitar
  • Justin Hackl - Guitar/vocals
  • Nate Reisig

Discography

Albums

Date of Release Title Label
September 27, 2005 Hello Sailor Astro Magnetics

Singles

  • "We Drink So You Don't Have To"

References

  1. ↑ "The Blackout Pact Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  2. ↑ The Blackout Pact. SPIN, October 19, 2005.
  3. ↑ Review of Hello Sailor. The Marquee, September 2005.
  4. ↑ Review of Hello Sailor. Alternative Press, December 1, 2005.
  5. ↑ Hello Sailor review, Allmusic
  6. ↑ "Mike Herrera (The Blackout Pact, Tin Horn Prayer) passes away at age 33". Archived from the original on 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
  7. ↑ "In Memoriam : Mike Herrera The Blacout Pact, Tin Horn Prayer (1982-2015)". Punknews.org. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
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