 A second live album, "Plectrum Muscle" (1998), was issued by the group under the name, Cantankerous, via Rat Race Records.In January 1999, Michael Weber died of a heroin overdose; Seminal Rats broke up, although they periodically returned to performing either as Cantankerous or under their original name.A 2× CD compilation album, "The Essential Seminal Rats 1984-1991", was issued in August 2007, Trevor Block of "Mess+Noise" noticed, "[they] erupted into this landscape and quickly gained a firm foothold.