Inva//id are a Los Angeles EBM industrial hellectro band that are fairly new to the scene. They play an aggressive and dark form of danceable industrial that would be right at home in the German Darkwave/Aggrotech environment. Formed around front man Chris Rivera with electronics and percussion from Krz Souls and Brendin Ross, they also enlisted the help of a live guitarist for the show. They kicked off the festival with a solid basis for the rest of the night to unfold, pounding out the beats and layering the synths while Chris sang and screeched across the Regent's stage.

They recently gained some notoriety here in the States with Robert Smith personally choosing them to be part of the Cure's Daydream Festival earlier this summer in Pasadena.

The women involved with the project are Sólveig Matthildur, Margrét Rósa, and Laufey Soffía, each taking turns at vocal duties at some point with bass guitar and synthesizers being the only live instruments. I can see this group catching on with a wider audience, as their sound goes beyond the goth industrial underground scene, but they were certainly not out of place in the Cold Waves lineup.

This performance centered entirely around his time in Ministry and involved live remixes with accompanying video projections that showed a rapid, well-cut combination of official music video elements, behind the scenes, and live concert footage (along with a bunch of layered trippy effects stuff going on too). Paul moved through the classic albums starting with "Land of Rape and Honey" moving to a really cool version of "Burning Inside" from "TMIATTTT" , "New World Order" from "Psalm69", all the way up through the last albums he was involved in.

It was a nice walk down memory lane - especially with the more intimate footage mixed in, but it had a nice new touch as well. I was hoping he was going to break out a mic and sing "Scarecrow". Even Karaoke style, it would have been awesome to see that song performed.

They sport a very minimalistic stage presence with a table full of gear and a large focus on their extremely well rendered, psychotic mood-board projections. Anatomical dissections start moving and then twist and distort in horrible acid-trip fashion. Insects attack one another in vivid detail under macro lens recording, weird popsicle stick puppets proliferate a strangely happy old west apocalypse. Demented to say the least.

They kept their set primarily on the more industrial type material with some of their larger hits creeping in through out the show. I have to say, they are without a doubt, super weird.  Their vocal delivery is definitely on the lighter side of industrial and at times silly and whimsical. Their videos are disturbingly dark, with an introspective examination of the human condition; greed, bodily functions, the reality of death, and many more deep thinking topics.