Sun Dont Shine — the band featuring Kirk Windstein (guitar/vocals; Crowbar, Down, Kingdom of Sorrow), former Type O Negative members Kenny Hickey (guitar/vocals), Johnny Kelly (drums), and Todd Strange (Crowbar, Down) — has released the official music video for “All You Wasted.” The clip was shot by Mike Holderbeast. The band was formerly known as Eye Am.
“All You Wasted” is taken from Sun Dont Shine‘s debut album, From Birth to Death, which was released April 1 via Corpse Paint Records.
Hickey said: “I don’t want our music to be one-dimensional. I don’t want it to be just dark and doomy or always so heavy. I want it to be both light and dark, dynamic and unpredictable.”
At its core, Sun Dont Shine is about rejecting the overly polished and letting the music speak for itself. With Windstein‘s earth-shaking riffs and Hickey‘s evocative, often ethereal melodies, the band strikes a delicate balance between heavy and haunting. Kelly‘s drumming keeps things tight while Strange‘s bass lines anchor the bottom end. Influences span Black Sabbath to The Beatles.
Regarding the name change from Eye Am to Sun Dont Shine, Hickey told Revolver: “There was another metal band called I Am, and also a rap band called Eyeam, spelled exactly like [us] on Spotify. We tried to trademark the name, but we found out the rapper already owned it. So, we were not able to go forward. But that was just a mock-up name that Andrew came up with, you know what I mean? We didn’t figure we were gonna even be a band. Same thing happened with Type O back in the day. We were called Sub-Zero, but there was another band named Sub-Zero and they threatened [to sue]. We had all gotten the negative tattoos already — you know, ‘Sub-Zero’ — and then history [became] history. It ended up being Type O Negative.”
Under the Eye Am name, the band released singles “Dreams Always Die With The Sun” (June 2023) and “Cryptomnesia” (November 2023) via Corpse Paint Records, both with music videos shot and directed by Holderbeast at OCD Recording and Production. The band’s first single under the Sun Dont Shine name, “The Promise Song,” came out in January 2025. Although an EP called Coming Down was announced in June 2025, the band later chose to focus on recording a full-length album instead.
Hickey and Kelly had previously collaborated in Seventh Void, which released Heaven Is Gone in 2009, and Silvertomb, which issued Edge of Existence in 2019. Original Crowbar bassist Strange returned to the band in 2016 for the touring cycle in support of The Serpent Only Lies before departing once again to focus on his family. Windstein, who also plays in the New Orleans supergroup Down, previously recorded two albums with Hatebreed‘s Jamey Jasta under the Kingdom of Sorrow banner and has issued two solo albums.
