Unshine was born in May 2000, when Susanna Vesilahti visited the rehearsal of the band for the first time. The other members, who known each other for some years from other projects, describe that as a "kind of a musical awakening". At that time the band had their rehearsal room at the cellar of restaurant Manala in Helsinki.

The next years were filled with rehearsals and composing. At the beginning of 2002 Unshine self-produced their first demo which was called "Promo 2002", on which they published three songs. In the following summer they had their first public gigs, which were followed by their second demo, "Promo 2003".

Their debut-album "Earth Magick" was recorded at 2004 by Low Frequency Records. One year later it was released in Finland and North-America by Crash Music and got great reviews from all parts of the world. Unshine's second album, The Enigma of Immortals, was released in April 2008.