| Obsession | ||||
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| Released | June 15, 2004[1] | |||
| Recorded | Maple St. Studio in Santa Ana, California, United States | |||
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| Length | 35:47 | |||
| Label | Trustkill Records (TK0052) | |||
| Producer | Andrew Murdock, Scott Gilman, Fred Archambault | |||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
Obsession is the fifth album by Eighteen Visions. The album was their most commercially successful to date, and featured three music videos. Some editions of this album come with a DVD that features a 'making of' the album. The album has sold over 200,000 copies in the US. The album peaked at #4 on the Heatseekers chart in the US. On July 3, 2004, the album peaked at #147 on the Billboard 200.[4] The song "Guilty Pleasures," seemingly only available on the UK Pressing of Obsession, was confirmed by singer James Hart on Twitter to actually be "The Sun Falls Down." The title is incorrect on the Japan pressings and the single for "I Let Go."
The album was noted to be a starkly different sonic approach by comparison to the sound found on their earlier work, noted by AllMusic as "[a] shadowy realm [...] where the iron poles of heavy metal beat against hardcore spines, and hammer the resulting screams into melodies lanced with pain."[2]
On 15 June, 2024, the 20th anniversary of the album's release, a fully re-recorded version of the album was released with accompanying reworked cover art. While "Said and Done", the closing song of the original record, is the only that does not appear on the 2024 version of the album, previously unreleased demos had been finished and released as new songs "Ghost Like Swayze" and "Monster". Additionally, two bonus tracks from the original record's limited release, "Sun Falls Down" and "The World Is Mine", were also included.[5]
- ^ "Eighteen Visions Obsession [CD]". Archived from the original on May 22, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
- ^ a b c Loftus, Johnny. "Obsession – Eighteen Visions". Allmusic. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
Eighteen Visions have moved consciously into that shadowy realm, the one where the iron poles of metal beat against hardcore spines, and hammer the resulting screams into melodies lanced with pain.
- ^ a b "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
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- ^ "EIGHTEEN VISIONS celebrate 20 years of 'Obsession' with re-recorded reissue".