If you want to explore jazz, classical, and avant rock players with unusal techniques then check out people like
Dan Stearns
Ken Rubenstein
Shawn Lane
Henry Kaiser
Vernon Reid
etc.
you can find links for all of them on my page:
http://kronosonic.com
Many of them are doing microtonal and fretless but none of them are doing metal -- so it wouldn't be for everybody I suppose.