Sacre Bleu!! French guitarist Stephan Forte demos some cool neoclassical techniques/pedal point in this vid. You don't have to be able to speak French either to work out the techniques, lol!! Check it out. C'est Magnifique!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GruN2L8V97I

Dude Stephan Forte and Adagio are INSANE! I like the underworld album the best though.......their new one is good but I like their old stuff a little better.

Stephan Forte is certainly one of my favorite neoclassical shred metal guitarists. He's so creative with seven string sweeps, and just extreme arpeggios in general. I've seen a few videos of Franck Hermanny doing some bss sweeps. And Kevin Codfert is an amazing keyboardist and pianist. He's just mindblowing, like Forte.

He's pretty good but his tone just doesn't sound pretty great compared to others like Friedman,Malmsteen etc.
He does some great vibrato tho.