Time Bomb Recordings

Brian Burns- vocals, Warren Huart- guitar, Mark Christian- guitar,
Doug Van Dyck- bass, vocals, Roel Kuiper- drums

"Star spangled loss of truth, cannibals in sharp blue suits, your last vote cut your own throat, and now we have no voice." - Brian Burns, Disappointment Incorporated.

It would only be a few months between Brian Burns' last tenure as a merchant marine in mid-1997 and the manifestation of a band from his definite vision. During that time the distorted images that danced in Burns' head developed into songs. Also in that time five individuals from different corners of the world would mesh into an aggressive, penetrating sound. By late 1997, Disappointment Incorporated would emerge as the fusion of both a band's sonic energy and Burns' natural poetic mania.

Having met would-be band mates during brief periods at home, Burns looked them up on his return and began to channel some of his dark visions into music. Excellent players, the four would match in intensity and in sonic vision to Burns. With Brian Burns, Warren Huart, Mark Christian, Doug Van Dyck and Roel Kuiper became Disappointment Incorporated.

Huart, a UK citizen, had been in the states for several years in a band called Star 69; Christian, an Orange County resident, had done stints in both the Big F and Jerry Cantrell's band; Van Dyck, also of Orange County, played previously with Engines of Aggression; and Kuiper, from Holland, was the drummer for 10 Inch Men.

Dis, Inc.'s first live performance was in early 1998 with Mike Watt at a tiny club in Anaheim called Linda's Doll Hut. There was an intensity to their live show that matched their music. In March of 1998, the band signed with Time Bomb Recordings. By August, Dis, Inc. released a four song EP recorded back at that same tiny club that gave them their start.

Spoken Through The Profits roused critical curiosity. The Los Angeles Times said, "This live introduction shows it's armed with lots of vocal and instrumental firepower aimed at producing something different." The OC Weekly dubbed Brian Burns' lyrics "obsessive-bordering-on-scary," and felt "the guy who wrote them might someday mow down a bunch of citizens and go out in a blaze of glory." And the band began to develop a reputation for the unpredictable.

Dis, Inc. continued to play select dates in Southern California but almost immediately went back into the studio to begin working on their full-length debut, F=Ø. Dave Jerden (The Offspring, Alice In Chains, Jane's Addiction) and Bryan Carlstrom were attracted to the project and signed on as co-producers. F=Ø evolved as the logical follow up to the EP; snarled energy is conducted through each verse and the album is an often deeper portrait of a frantic psyche.

The artistry on F=Ø is the synchronization between music and rapt poetry. Bleeding Boy sketches the haunts of a man whose prostitute mother and soldier/killer father leave him, as a boy, in a state of abandon. Screaming guitars and rhythmic interludes echo the boy's pain. Don't Think The Sun is an edgy ode to an array of fiery goddesses. Uptempo and magical, blazing guitars layered over a top-heavy beat add to the fantasy. American is frenzied in both sound and vision. Personifying an American ideology, Burns points out political and social hypocrisy with a storyteller's touch.

At once brilliant and provocative, Disappointment Incorporated speaks through many voices, "Constellations lose formation, maybe it was my imagination, now I wonder why we ever met, met, met..."

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