Severed Heads are an Australian
electronic music group founded in
1979 as
Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were
Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by
Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both left the band by mid-1981. Throughout the next decade several musicians joined Severed Heads' ranks; including
Garry Bradbury, Simon Knuckey,
Stephen Jones, and Paul Deering. In 1984 they released "Dead Eyes Opened" as a single, which was remixed in 1994 and re-released, the latter version reached No. 16 on the
ARIA Singles Chart. Two of their singles, "Greater Reward" (1988) and "All Saints Day" (1989), reached the top 30 on the
Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Ellard disbanded the group in 2007 and continued with other projects. Subsequent Severed Heads reunions have occurred in 2010 for a 30th anniversary concert, in 2011 they supported
Gary Numan's tour of Australia, also that year they appeared at BimFEST in
Antwerp, in 2013 they had a gig at the
Adelaide Festival of Arts, and in September 2015 they toured the United States for the first time in over 20 years.