Bellhead premiere ‘Threats’ video and announce expanded vinyl edition and tour
Bellhead premiere the “Threats” video on 24 June 2026, expand the “Threats” EP to a 10-track vinyl edition with remixes, and announce 2026 US tour dates.
Bellhead
Bellhead, the bass-driven duo from Chicago, premiere the music video for “Threats (If I Can’t Break Your Heart)” on 24 June 2026. The video arrives with an expanded vinyl edition of the band’s “Threats” EP and a run of 2026 US tour dates. The duo first issued “Threats” on 8 April 2025.
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Bellhead ‘Threats’: expanded vinyl edition and remixes
The expanded “Threats” runs ten tracks across two sides. Side A carries the original songs “Threats,” “Heart Shaped Hole,” “Shutters + Stutters,” “No Dead Horses” and “Double Jeopardy.” Side B adds five remixes: “Bad Taste” reworked by Stabbing Westward’s Christopher Hall, “Heart Shaped Hole” by Clubdrugs, “Drugstore Keri” remixed by the band itself, “Nothing As It Seems” reworked by Stabbing Westward’s Walter Flakus, and “Shutters + Stutters” by Frontal Boundary. “Drugstore Keri” originally closed the band’s 2023 EP “Good Intentions.”
The “Threats” video was directed by John Weaver, who has shot earlier Bellhead videos. The clip is the band’s first to show members Karen Righeimer and Ivan Russia without masks. The video is online now.
The EP is available on Bandcamp.
Tour dates for Bellhead
Bellhead support the release with late-summer and autumn 2026 dates, including shows with Pig, Cyanotic, Iron Years, Thief and Livernois:
- 19 June 2026 – Late Bar, Chicago, IL (video release party)
- 20 June 2026 – 317 Art Collaborative, Rockford, IL
- 31 July 2026 – Langlab, South Bend, IN
- 2 August 2026 – Burlington, Chicago, IL (with Iron Years, Most Modern, In a Darkened Room)
- 28 August 2026 – Cactus Club, Milwaukee, WI
- 1 September 2026 – Coven, Omaha, NE
- 2 September 2026 – Kirby’s Beer Store, Wichita, KS
- 3 September 2026 – Crypt, Denver, CO (with EhPh, Hypersomnia)
- 4 September 2026 – Albuquerque, NM (with Thief)
- 5 September 2026 – Resonant Head, Oklahoma City, OK (with Mechanical Flesh, Blood Bells, Othering, Later Laine)
- 6 September 2026 – Kickback Bar, Houston, TX
- 7 September 2026 – The Crypt, New Orleans, LA (with Livernois)
- 17 September 2026 – Rose Bowl Tavern, Urbana, IL
- 18 September 2026 – Hi Tone, Memphis, TN
- 19 September 2026 – Birdie’s, Little Rock, AR (with Pig, Cyanotic)
- 20 September 2026 – Fubar, St. Louis, MO (with Spicy Kitty, Bitchface)
About Bellhead
Bellhead is a Chicago duo formed in 2019 by Ivan Russia and Karen Righeimer. The pair build their sound from two basses and a drum machine rather than guitar, mixing post-punk, industrial, darkwave and gothic. After an early run of singles, the band released its debut EP “Unicorn Bones” in 2020, followed by “Dead Lights” in 2021.
Side-Line covered the duo’s single in Chicago post-punk band Bellhead’s “Nothing As It Seams” and its 2023 EP in Bellhead’s “Good Intentions”, then reported the Bellhead “Threats” EP announcement ahead of its April 2025 release. The expanded “Threats” extends that record with remixes from collaborators including Stabbing Westward’s Christopher Hall, with whom the band has shared stages.
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