MetalExiles.com recently caught up with CIRCUS DIABLO frontman Billy Morrison (CAMP FREDDY) and guitarist Ricky Warwick (THE ALMIGHTY). The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Metal Exiles: What was the idea behind Circus Diablo?

Billy Morrison: "I have known Billy Duffy for many years as well as being in THE CULT with him and as well as being apart of my other band, Camp Freddy. He always thought I would be a good frontman and we decided to write together. After Ricky Warwick came to America to be a third songwriting partner we were sitting on 12 songs. It was only then that we decided to release the songs. We never thought we were going to release a record together.

Metal Exiles: Why is that if you had something good going on?

Billy Morrison: "We did not know. The thing about Circus Diablo is that it was a very organic process. I know a lot of bands say that but we started writing songs, I was singing because I had a lot of things to say and I had waited a long time to say it and it was only when we went into record with Matt Sorum on drums did we know we had an album. It was a fun process to go through and that is probably why the album sounds so good. When you spend a million on an album in three months, you are working from the waist up, you lose the cock and pussy of Rock N' Roll. Rock N' Roll is from the waist down. We did ours in 17 or 18 days on our own dime because we do not have time to mess around."

Metal Exiles: The guitars sound great, where were you coming from when you were writing the riffs?

Ricky Warwick: "It was no different than the way I wrote for The Almighty. The Almighty was a very riff based band. Billy is into riffs and I would come up with a riff and there was not much difference between a riff for the Almighty or Circus except for Billy. Billy has a unique sound and a different way of approaching it."

Billy Morrison: "'Mary's Shadow' (bonus track on Japanese release) is a great example. He came in with a riff that he was playing at 90 miles an hour so I listened to it and told him to slow it down and after he did I said that’s a song."

Ricky Warwick: "That is the genius of Circus Diablo, you bring it in, bang it out and it works."

Go to this location for the complete interview.