Ah, the good old thrash metal picking technique. I've been picking like that for quite a while, you can come up with all kinds of good riffs that way once you learn to control it properly. Listen to some old Megadeth for a good example.
Also if you can find it get, the self titled album by a band called Deliverance, they use that technique to the fullest on that album. It's thrash metal at it's best.
[Edited by loner92 on 12-16-2000 at 03:05 PM]