Joona Nuutinen 
This is a post from the perspective of me, Ville (the drum guy), on our two gigs in Synapsi with Hocico in August 2014. The diary includes lots of technical stuff, which might be out of the interest-range of many people – all the technical mumbojumbo is therefore written in italic. Unzyme played at Synapsi for the … Read more
Unzyme will conduct a very special experiment at SYNAPSI in Tampere and Helsinki. About four years ago we had just released our debut album, and got the chance to play at SYNAPSI. It was a very encouraging experience, and we still think of it as some kind of a milestone in our career. Now that … Read more
The next song to be released from Override is Step outside. We’re still working on the mix, but it will be out soon.
We like to make our experiments as spectacular as possible, and thus have invested quite a lot of time on lighting design. Every song in our live catalog has been enhanced with a light show. We try to underline the story of the song with a matching light sequence. It took quite a lot of … Read more
I’ve tried countless tricks while recording by myself. Often I thought that I was a bad singer, while it was actually about not hearing what I sung. I used to have to record a lot more to get the right takes, but with the combination of a proper headphone mix and using only one half … Read more
Vocal recording sessions tend to be rather long. After recording and going through the vocal takes countless times, you start to lose perspective. This is why breaks are essential in recording. My favorite quality test for recorded vocals is the (notorious) morning test. The idea is simple: first thing in the morning, listen to what … Read more
When recording vocals, it’s essential to actually hear what you’re singing. Recently I switched to a Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface, and even though the monitoring audio quality is fine, I wasn’t able to get enough volume to my headphones while recording. I tried lowering the volume of all other tracks in Ableton Live, but … Read more
One of the early Unzyme songs. When I composed this song, I was really excited about the melody. I think I had gotten really close to my ideal of the perfect melody. I still like the song very much, but production-wise we’ve done a better job on many other songs. Especially now that we’re about … Read more
Unzyme will perform at Lumous Festival (Tampere, Finland) on July 4th. We had planned not to do any more experiments before the release of Override, but because this was such an interesting offer, we decided to take it. Hope to see you in Tampere! Lumous Festival on Facebook Lumous Festival website
After three years of incubation, it is time to launch the first single from our upcoming album Override. Check out the lyric video.
We are 99% done with the first single from our forthcoming album, Override. The song is called Relay, and it will be released first on YouTube and SoundCloud, and later on Spotify. This time around we felt comfortable enough to mix the song ourselves. Ville Hoikkala has done the mixing at Unzyme Laboratories. However, the song will … Read more
Three out of ten songs have now been recorded, and more will be recorded on a frantic pace. The mixing process of our second album has already started. No release date has been set yet, but it should not be too far anymore.
Another crossing was the first song I wrote for Unzyme. I had just bought new gear – a new microphone, external sound card, monitor headphones and a keyboard controller. Most of these devices have later been replaced by better gear, but I still have the instruments and use them occasionally. Anyway, being excited about the … Read more
While we’re busy working on our second album, Override, we are also negotiating with a couple of summer festivals about implementing Unzyme Experiments to their program. Two summer shows have already been announced, but there might be more. Our main goal, however, is to release the new album as quickly as possible. Our ambitions have … Read more
We are headlining the Uunolan Ukotus & Statik, a DIY summer festival in June (28-30), near Helsinki. Details to be announced!
Our next experiment will be conducted at Yläkaupungin Yö, a city festival in Jyväskylä, Finland, May 18th. We will play in Ilokivi at 23:00 (Finnish time). As usual, the experiment will also be aired online via Ustream. The photograph is from last year’s festival, and features one of our inspirations, Semmarit.
Unzyme will host an experiment at Digital Creativity Festival Instanssi on 2nd of March, 2013. As usual the experiment will be broadcasted online at unzymelive.com. Read more on Instanssi.
On December 9th we did a web-only broadcast of an experiment, during which a fan of us reminded of the lack of ambient light. The cameras (webcams especially) don’t perform well in darkness. Our solution was to resort to our old “lighting system” to get more ambient light. It’s kind of funny that our original … Read more
This was one of the earliest Unzyme songs. It started as a jam. We were playing something together with Ville and Mary, and I sung some totally stupid lyrics on top of that. The original, weird Finnish lyrics were something like “Jeesus takakontissa huutaa, ja minä vain ajan.”, which translates to “Jesus is shouting in … Read more
What separates “mediocre” bands and “successful” bands? By mediocre I mean a band that is not very popular. They might have good songs and all, but they’re not really concentrated on becoming successful. And why would a band want to be successful, and a potential sell-out? Because successful bands can earn a living by doing … Read more
