Super-shredder Great Kat has a new DVD coming out this April: Beethoven’s Guitar Shred.

How do you describe The Great Kat? Part super-shredder, part 80′s metal-queen, part dominatrix, and part advertisement for decaf coffee:

In fact, her real name is Katherine Thomas, and she’s a classically trained violinist who graduated from the Julliard School. She toured with a classical orchestra before selling her soul for metal crossing over into more aggressive forms of self expression. But who cares about her pedigree? She can play Flight of the Bumblebee at 300 BPM:

The Great Kat’s site (some of it might be NSFW). I think I’m in love. Kat, gimme yo’ digits, girl!