Bait features bassist Snapa and guitarist/vocalist Rob "Mid" Middleton who both previously played together in the influential early crustmetal band Deviated Instinct; this is apparently the band that they formed after the demise of D-Instinct, but instead of the punishing stenchcore of that band, Bait goes for more of a jagged, noise-rock influenced sound (somewhat closer in feel to Mid's other industrial-crust band Spine Wrench) on this kinda-rare 7" that came out earlier this past decade. On this debut Ep, Bait belt out four songs of vicious mid-tempo metallic crush fused to slower, more angular sludgy breakdowns, and Mid delivers his vocals in an intensely harsh and scathing howl that made my blood run cold. The music on Every Lie I've Ever Lived sort of comes off like latter day Today Is The Day, Unsane and Meatjack but even more metallic, mashing massive muscular rock riffs with blasting feral thrash and angular crunch along with those distorted megaphone vocals. It's a very cool mix of Am Rep grime and lurch, and sludgy, bone-crushing heaviness, a sound that I am always in the mood to hear, and the abstract sketches of desperation that make up the lyrics add to the panicked, desperate tone on this record that really gets your nerves twitching. It's put together into a nice package, the 7" housed in a heavy glossy booklet with the lyrics printed in red ink on sheets of translucent vellum with Mid's artwork spread throughout (always in the mood to see that, too - Mid is responsible for scads of great art that you've already seen on classic covers from Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror). Extremely limited - I was only able to pick up a couple of these records for the shop.