La Severa Matacera is a group from Bogotá formed in 1996, mainly merging Ska and Reggae with a pretty rock sound that after 22 years of independent work has published a record collection that is part of the soundtrack of the capital's underground like: Immunity (1999), When people stand (2002), Energía Positiva (2005), VISA (2009), Paranoia (2011) and Light it up (2013).


They have participated in several international compilations and toured in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Ecuador, appearing on stages such as the House of Blues in Los Angeles and festivals such as Festival Ska de Aka (Mexico City), Victoria Ska Fest (Victoria, Canada ), and Festival FFF (Ambato, Ecuador); They have also been headliners of the most important national festivals such as Rock al Parque, Altavoz and Manizales Grita Rock among others.


In 2012 the band was selected nationally as the winner of the call for "Scholarships of international circulation for musicians, groups and musical researchers - I Cycle" of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. As a result they carried out a tour throughout the month of August called EUROPARANOIA TOUR 2012 where Berlin was the center of operations to depart for cities in the north and south of Germany and closed with two presentations in the south of France.


In 2013 they presented the single ‘LIGHT IT UP’ in collaboration with LAFROTINO, a Berlin-based Colombian artist with a long career in the Hip-Hop / Alternative scene in Europe, founder and former member of the German group Culcha Candela. The promotional tour for this single called ENCIENDE EL FUEGO TOUR 2013 was launched in Bogotá at the Rock al Parque Festival as an invited district group and then continued on the main German stages such as SO36 (Berlin), Hafenklang (Hamburg), Sonic Balroom (Cologne ) and a spectacular closure at the Kulturladen Sommer Fest in Kontanz on the border with Switzerland.


For 2014 the group presents “DESDE LA MONTAÑA”, a new single in which the group returns to work independently and with which they once again show their ability to make simple songs and full of feeling, expressing the demand of the human being with the nature and libertarian idiosyncrasy of Latin American countries.


In 2015, the band presented their new album independently, containing 12 tracks, taking up the main influences of the band, recovering the essence of ska, rock and reggae from its beginnings, combined with the experimental fusions that characterize the unique sound that the band has developed in his career. This work called "SHOWBUSINESS INTERNACIONAL" will feature the participation of renowned artists worldwide with whom they have shared the stage over the years while also being part of their main influences such as Panteón Rococó (Mexico), Sargento García (France ), Che Sudaka (Barcelona), Las Manos de Filippi (Argentina), Dubioza Kolektiv (Bosnia), Los Negros Vidos (Puerto Rico) and Desorden Público (Venezuela) as well as national bands with whom they have grown up supporting various social, cultural and environmental causes such as Providencia (Medellín) and Doctor Krápula (Bogotá) among others. The album was initially presented in October 2015 in Mexico City at the Bajo Circuito Forum, on the 35th Anniversary of the Chogu Cultural Tianguis and at the 25th edition of the Quimera Festival in Metepec.


In 2016, the video clip “Here there are no heroes” was presented with the support of an independent collective of audiovisual media linked to the district process of conscientious objectors. The premiere is made after an intense 16-date tour of countries such as Germany, Holland, Austria and Spain, where the band was visiting self-managed cultural centers, bars and closing its musical tour for three festivals, Oboa Fest (Oderbruch, Germany), Landjuweel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Rototom Sunsplash at the Showcase Stage (Benicassim, Spain)


In 2017 within the framework of the first edition of the "Resonando" awards for independent music, La Severa Matacera as one of the invited artists released the video clip for "Luna Gitana", a single that is part of their most recent musical production "Showbusiness "and with the participation of Sergeant Garcia, one of the world icons of Latin music, who with influences from ska, reggae, salsa and other Caribbean and contemporary sounds, has become the creator of" Salsamuffin ".


During their fourth tour of the European continent they return to Germany and Austria from May 26 to July 2 where they present a mouthpiece for their next production in Berlin, Potsdam, Halle, Stuttgart and Vienna among other cities, visiting renowned venues such as the Badehaus and the Gorky Theater in addition to participation in the Utrash, Marktredwitz and Ackerkult festivals. The tour called WELTKRIEG TOUR 2017 highlights the irony of belonging to a generation that has exhausted its efforts by participating in processes and mobilizations to achieve social transformation in Colombia looking for opportunities for conflict resolution from neighborhoods and bars to the Yarí jungle in front of to the arrogance of the leaders of the great world powers who continue to propagate hate, xenophobia and discrimination.