Heavy metal supergroup Sun Don’t Shine returns with “Power To Live,” a fierce and unflinching new single / video that confronts humanity’s refusal to learn from its own violent history while defiantly clinging to survival, awareness, and the will to keep going. The track is available now via Corpse Paint Records, and the official music video can be seen below.
“Power To Live” is the latest single from Sun Don’t Shine’s debut full-length, From Birth To Death, due April 1, 2026 via Corpse Paint Records. Written by guitarist/vocalist Kenny Hickey and guitarist Kirk Windstein, the song was recorded at OCD Studios Summer 2025, produced by Duane Simoneaux, co-produced by Vinnie LaBella, and executive produced by Andrew Spaulding.
“Power To Live” grew out of a conversation around the single’s striking cover art, when Hickey remarked how shameful it is that, as human beings, we still haven’t evolved beyond killing one another. That observation became the song’s core: a stark acknowledgment of history’s repeated failures, paired with a refusal to surrender to them. “The track is a challenge to the times we’re living in,” the band explains. “An insistence on survival and consciousness in the face of cycles that refuse to break.”
Sun Don’t Shine collaborated with visual artist Nadiya Vizier (Crowbar/Sailor Bob tattoo) on the striking cover artwork for “Power To Live”. To mark the release, the band and artist are unveiling a strictly limited art collaboration, available exclusively alongside the single. The collection includes 100 hand-signed posters autographed by Vizier, a custom sticker sheet, and 10 ultra-limited trucker caps featuring original artwork from the release. Each piece was created specifically for “Power To Live”, blending the song’s urgency and message with Vizier’s unmistakable visual language. All items are extremely limited and tied directly to the “Power To Live” streaming release—once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Musically, “Power To Live” channels Sun Don’t Shine’s signature blend of heaviness and atmosphere—earth-shaking riffs, evocative melodies, and a deep sense of dynamic push and pull. With Windstein’s crushing guitar tone locked against Hickey’s haunting hooks, Johnny Kelly’s precise yet unrestrained drumming, and Todd Strange’s thunderous low end, the song carves out a landscape that’s as brooding as it is anthemic. It’s a sound that feels lived-in and battle-tested: the result of four lifers who know how to let a song breathe, build, and ultimately explode.
The “Power To Live” video, directed by Mike Holderbeast, extends the song’s core themes into stark, unsettling imagery. Rather than offering a literal narrative, the clip juxtaposes performance and atmosphere to underscore the tension between destruction and the will to endure. The visual approach mirrors Sun Don’t Shine’s larger ethos: capturing raw emotion in the moment instead of sanding it down into something neat and disposable.
Sun Don’t Shine (formerly known as Eye Am) unites Kenny Hickey (Type O Negative, Silvertomb), Kirk Windstein (Crowbar, Down), Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative, Silvertomb), and Todd Strange (Crowbar, Down). At its core, Sun Don’t Shine is about rejecting the overly polished and letting the music speak for itself. Every track feels like a journey—restless, dynamic, and emotionally charged—driven by a chemistry that can only come from players who have been through life’s highs and lows together. With “Power To Live,” the band continues to define what their future looks like: unflinching, emotionally resonant, and unwilling to look away from the world as it is.
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