Mind Scan: Nick Hobbs – Navigating through big changes in the live music industry

I met Nick Hobbs quite randomly at Tallinn Music Week 2017, and he kindly let me interview him about his numerous adventures in the music business. How did you end up working in the music industry? N: When I was sixteen, I heard music that inspired me greatly and completely changed my life. I had … Read more

Behind the Scenes of Extinction

We just released “Behind the Scenes of Extinction”, a documentary film by Sebastian Trzaska of the making of our latest music video, which was shot in a mine. [su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/3H48veqSz0s” playlist=”bpwdTxTYOaE,TseqEgacjg4,RPtRdZAJa2A,GHPYHEsn91E,p2mAE0zW01o,gWLWlKEK4fU,gJFGUhdMndc” width=”1500″ height=”1000″ modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes”]

New album out on May 20th 2017

Exciting times! The new Unzyme album will be out in a month! To celebrate the release, we’ll conduct a very special experiment at Steam Hellsinki. Free entry, and free lab coats to 10 first participants. The album will be available on streaming services such as Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Shazam, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon Music, Google … Read more

Extinction music video released

[su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/bpwdTxTYOaE” playlist=”TseqEgacjg4,RPtRdZAJa2A,GHPYHEsn91E,p2mAE0zW01o,gWLWlKEK4fU,gJFGUhdMndc” width=”1500″ height=”1000″ modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes”] Ambitious project Extinction was our biggest and most ambitious music video production so far. It was shot at Tytyri Mine Experience in Lohja. Extinction is the fourth single from the upcoming album (out on May 20th). The video was directed by Artur Kazmertsuk, who also edits the Unzyme Debriefing video blog series. … Read more

Jamiroquai – Automaton review

When I first heard the new Jamiroquai single – Automaton, I was quite excited. It sounded fresh, because Jamiroquai hadn’t explored this kind of electronic sound yet. Automaton is a fine track, even though I don’t like retro synth sounds. The arrangement and the production of the song is far from what we’ve heard from Jamiroquai before, and … Read more

My raid on Tallinn Music Week 2017

Preparations for Tallinn Music Week 2017 began a few weeks before the conference. Last year I carried a huge, heavy travel case with about 80 promo packages in it – this time I decided to travel a bit lighter, and packed just a few dozen physical albums, and a bunch of redesigned promo packages. I … Read more

Song dissection: Anniversaries

Anniversaries has stayed in our live setlist for a long time. Structurally it’s one of those Unzyme songs that start off with relatively small elements and end up in a massive chorus storm. It’s a very dark song about having big dreams and constantly having to put them off. The frustration of not getting any recognition for … Read more

Make-up and clothing for Unzyme’s Extinction music video

Hellou there! I’m Anniina Saari, a make-up artist and a professional in fashion and clothing. I’m the one responsible for the looks in Unzyme’s brand new music video Extinction. The project started when Unzyme’s manager and music video’s executive producer Suvi Liukkonen contacted me and asked about my interest in co-operating on a cool music video … Read more