WL//WH Video Premiere: BELLHEAD’s Crime Scene Investigation “Threats (If I Can’t Break Your Heart)”

photo by John Weaver

Chicago’s shadow‑drenched, bass‑driven post-punk duo, made up of Karen Righeimer (Low Bass, Vocals) and Ivan Russia (High Bass, Vocals, Drum Programming), returns this summer with a triple‑strike of new releases and continued live momentum.

The first offer is the official music video by John Weaver for “Threats (If I Can’t Break Your Heart),” a stark and unsettling visual companion to one of their most compelling tracks, WL//WH is pleased to premiere, in sync with the flashy limited yellow vinyl expanded edition of the April 2025 EP, “Treats.”

The lyrics describe the reckless, thrill-seeking behavior of a troubled woman who likes drugs, violence, and inflicting dark mind games on others.

The momentum of the song creeps and pounces, like a cat, with dangerous, sauntering and alarmingly pulsing bass lines, and heavy trudging, then stomping drum beats, setting the foundation for bursts of anxious droning riffs, laced with epic melancholic melodies to ring out around harsh, breathy, aroused male vocals, turning to an urgent layered choral scream, before a sneaky, secretive female voice whispers, ‘Good girls get good things. Bad girls take what they want.’

“Threats” was directed by John Weaver, who has been behind the camera for several of the band’s other multiple award-nominated videos. The track was engineered by Neil Strauss and mastered by Carl Saff and features Wes Hayden and Kevin Epperson as part of the band in the video. With the change in album artwork that finally saw Karen Righeimer-Schock and Ivan Russia show the faces behind the music, the accompanying video for “Threats” also drops their masks and places them front and center.

The paired visuals show BELLHEAD performing “Threats (If I Can’t Break Your Heart)” against the backdrop of a crime scene investigation. The room is smoky, and the duo are dressed in fancy funeral attire. Karen Righeimer-Schock plays the cello as Ivan Russia sings into the microphone with a villainous intention. Industrial plastic wrap covers white mannequins in an otherwise disheveled room where a struggle has taken place, seamlessly evoking the destructive, chaos-inducing personality explored by the soundtrack.