It's a Shred Time 'Splosion
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Back in, say 1983, Ed Van Halen composed a sort of haunting aire called Cathedral that had many of us 7 to 9-year-olds kind of scratching our heads and placing calls to our guitar teachers really early on Saturday morning trying to find out what exactly was going on. Since then a lot of cats have replicated this technique: creating a one repeat slap back delay at a tempo double of which the melody is played to produce the audible illusion that the guitarist is playing twice as fast as he actually is. I think the most impressive contribution of this style since Cathedral is the solo by Nuno Bettencourt called Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee
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