Ringleader of the Tormentors is a savagely alive record. Recorded at Forum Music Village in Rome with long-term hero Tony Visconti (who produced favorite records for T-Rex and David Bowie, during their most creative periods of the 60"s and 70s), the album positively crackles with fire. It is, for instance, a far more direct and rocking record than Quarry, which aside from `Irish Blood, English Heart", was a self-consciously beautiful, and largely symphonic, record. Ringleader of the Tormentors was written by Morrissey with Jesse Tobias, Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer. Sanctuary. 2006.