A guitarist of the classic metal/hard rock school Lars Eric Mattsson was first discovered by Mike Varney (Guitar Player Magazine and Shrapnel Records ) in 1985. Lars signed to Black Dragon Records, a French indie label for which he recorded 3 albums Eternity (1988), No Surrender(1989) and the all instrumental Electric Voodoo (1991).

In 1992 Lars teamed up with Swedish singer Conny Lind who had been in Los Angeles working with Alex Masi and together with Drummer Tony Mattsson and Bass player Michael Ahlskog they formed the band VISION and recorded 1992 s album Lars Eric Mattssons VISION which went down very well specially in Japan where it was once again released by FEMS and in Europe by Roadrunner. The year after VISION recorded a follow up album, which were never released due to contractual problems and the band eventually split up.
As VISION was taking a break from recording Lars went into in studio at the end of august 1997 with a bunch of new songs which definitely will show that hard work pays off. This new album was Lars finest hour with his best guitar playing ever as well as some of his better compositions. Add to that singer Bjorn Lodin who never sounded this good before!

The reviews of Obsession were excellent, Progression magazine of USA called the album 1998s best Guitar album and it was clear to everyone that Lars had taken a major step forward, but Lars felt it was jsut the beginning of a new era.

In the autumn of 1999 Lars begun writing for another album and just to make things more interesting Lars invited some friends and well known musicians to guest on the project. These included : Patrick Rondat (Jean Michel Jarre) Rob Johnson (Magnitude 9), Erik Norlander (Lana Lane, Rocket Scientists) Pär Lindh (Pär Lindh Project) Esa Pietilä and more The new 70+ minute long opus consists of 14 new compositions jam packed with Intense musical ideas influenced by classical music, classic hard rock, heavy metal, progressive rock/metal with lots of virtuso performances from Lars and his guests. Soft melodic ballads and super tight odd meter riffing its all here!

In the year of 2000 Lars put together a progressive band called CONDITION RED, the debut album features keyboard maestro Derek Sherinian (ex- Alice Cooper/Dream Theater) and Lars friend Alex Masi (on additional guitars). Lars next project was to record a new MATTSSON album, this time with ex-Balance of Power singer Lance King, and the result, Power Games was released in 2003 and received fantastic reviews all over the world.

Lars major work in 2004 was the new super group BOOK OF REFLECTION which include singer Andy Engberg (ex-Lions Share/Section A etc), Vitalij Kuprij etcbut Lars biggest challenge this far was the progressive metal concept album/metal opera WAR which was released in 2005 and which features: Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen), Vitalij Kuprij, Lance King, Rene Janssen (Ayreon), Benny Jansson (Tears of Anger/Beyond Twilight) etc... Lars has also just finished an all instrumental guitar album Earthbound and he is involved in several exciting projects to be completed in 2006 and 2007.

After the reissue of some pieces from the past catalogue, 2015 is set as the right year for the release of a complete new musical adventure, an all-acoustic full-length called Songs from a Different Room