2012, Originally released in 1998, OBSESSION was at the time the fourth solo album from Lars Eric Mattsson seven years after his previous album ELECTRIC VOODOO, and just like on Lars' previous 1995's ASTRAL GROOVE band project he was joined by singer Bjorn Lodin (Baltimoore/Hard) with whom the pair would go on to record numerous albums together over the subsequent years. Stylistically OBSESSION can be described as the classic hard rock/metal with some neo-classical flourishes in the guitar stylings combined with Lodin's gritty vocals.