Shredding is awesome.
You.
Progressive metal, neo-classical/jazz fusion shred, melodic death metal... Dream Theater, Opeth, Tool, Queensryche, Rush, Nevermore, Jeff Loomis, Cryptopsy, Meshuggah, Dismember, Entombed, The Black Dahlia Murder, Necrophagist, Atheist, Cynic, 3, King Crimson, Dan Swano, Decrepit Birth, Quo Vadis, Mithras, Dissection, 3, Benighted, Suffocation, Akercocke, Children of Bodom, At the Gates, Death, Hate Eternal, Carcass, Arch Enemy, Firewind, Nightrage, Obituary, The Haunted, Slayer, All Shall Perish, Thine Eyes Bleed, Psycroptic, Spawn of Possession, Sepultura, Anata, Decapitated, Darkthrone, Ensiferum, Pitbulls in the Nursery, Vader, Wintersun, Nocturnus, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Unearth, Avenged Sevenfold, Trivium, The Amenta, Shadows Fall, Pantera, Damageplan, Martyr, Pre Black Album Metallica, Megadeth, Cacophony, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Michael Angelo Batio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Anthrax, Testament, Dragonforce, Led Zeppelin, The Mars Volta, Nightwish, Amorphis, Dragonland, Parkway Drive, Soilwork, Black Heart Eulogy, Between the Buried and Me, Bleeding Through, Dark Tranquillity, Haste the Day, 36 Crazy Fists, As I Lay Dying, Mastodon, Finntroll, Hammerfall, From Autumn To Ashes, Porcupine Tree, Persuader, Blind Gaurdian, Bloodbath, Deicide, Dimmu Borgir, Dethklok, Gorguts, Caliban, Machine Head, As We Rise, Gunshot Promise, Lifeblood, Isis, Hiromi Uehara, Amon Amarth, Dark Angel, Strapping Young Lad, Cannibal Corpse, Job For A Cowboy, Dying Fetus, In Flames, The Dillinger Escape Plane, Symphony X, Nile etc, etc... you know, stuff everyone has heard of...
Requiem For A Dream, Resevoir Dogs, No Country For Old Men, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Taxi Driver, Elephant, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Old Boy, Garden State, Ghost World, Lost In Translation, Match Point, A Love Song For Bobby Long, The Nanny Diaries...
A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ghost World (a graphic novel), His Dark Materials trilogy, The Scarlet Letter, The Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, anything written by Dean Koontz...
Enid Coleslaw, Holden Caulfield.