It all began in the year 2000, some time during the summer. Fredrik Djurfeldt and Ulf Lundblad happened to be in the same place at the same time. Since then they have released three albums and a whole lot of other stuff. First off was the album Discipline is reward enough, released by PAF records in May 2003. Just days after it's release it hit the Nordic Alternative Charts 2:nd position, only to conquer the first position the month after and hang around the charts top 10's for a total of four months.

Soon PAF records ceased to exist and Severe Illusion moved to New Mexico based Dangerous Sharks Biting People (DSBP) who released the next album, Accomplishments of Leopold II, in the year 2005. It is a concept album about King Leopold II of Belgium and his little genocide in Congo about a century ago. In late 2006, Double Shotgun Barrel Politics (DSBP) also released the album Shortcut to civilization. During the same period, a split 12" vinyl thing called Fight your lodging elsewhere/Hyper decease EP was made together with EBM/Power Noise terrorists The Pain Machinery, and a five track CD called Panopticon.

Throughout the years, Severe Illusion have played live shows in Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovenia, Russian and the Czech republic.

It is not over yet.