The album was their most commercially successful to date, and featured three music videos.

[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 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.

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.