Obban (Gjermund Aaberg) was born to a Swedish mother and a Norweigan father in the south-western country side of Sweden. When he is not touring with the ritualistic music project Heilung as harii warrior, he is tattooing and crafting at his private studio in his hometown.

He began his journey into tattooing in 2017, focusing on historical Scandinavian style ornaments from Pre-Christian times, mainly the Viking Age. After several years of traveling, living abroad and meeting with other cultures he has seen the importance of cultural heritage, and is working with these aspects in his own work, seeing it as his destiny to help bring back Scandinavian traditions into the light.