Having just released special outings earlier this year, which were an acoustic album titled "Angels of Love" and re-releasing "The Genesis", neo-classic guitar legend, Yngwie Malmsteen, keeps on giving special stuffs to his fans by preparing to drop a new album once again. According to the guitarist's official MySpace page and official site, Yngwie will be releasing another special album titled "High Impact".

The release date for the new album is being set for two dates, which are on December 7 (EU) and December 8 (world wide). From the press release, the album is dubbed as "a mind-boggling, high-paced instrumental compilation record". Not only that, making the record more special, it will have one special track which is Yngwie's cover of the late Michael Jackson's hit song "Beat It".

With most of the songs from the record is a re-issued tracks, Yngwie's version of "Beat It" would be something that his fans would be looking to check out as it is said to be a special never been released cover song done by the shredder. The song also said to have a unique and classic touch of the guitar legend's playing, plus on vocal there is also a special appearance by Tim Reaper Owens.

As I already mentioned above, "High Impact" would be the third record that Yngwie released this year after dropping "Angels of Love" on March 10 and "The Genesis" on August 25. All the albums including the new record, mostly consist of a re-released tracks from the guitar hero's hit songs that this time is being dropped via a new label, which is the Neo-classical king's label himself, the Rising Force Records.

An interesting news arrives from guitar hero, Rusty Cooley as he revealed to his fans that at the moment the guitarist is looking for new members for his band. Announcing the news via his official MySpace page, Rusty reveal that he is auditioning guitar and bass players to play with him on his new band.

Just as the previous audition for vocalist, this time Rusty still opens a wide opportunity for any guitarists or bassist out there to join him, especially for those that lived in the Houston/Woodlands area. This search was definitely a follow up to the guitar hero's previous audition for vocalist that he has already found and introduce the singer, who is Eric Lauer.

Beside sharing the news about the audition plan, Rusty also has other news that he shares via his MySpace blog page, such as his involvement on Death Machine cd Double Brutal, and also that he is teaching at Pro Music Instruction in The Woodland, Texas. Explaining more about his work wih Death Machine, the guitarist stated that on the CD, he was tapped to do three guest solo's on the song "Let off Some Steam Bennett".

An exciting news arrives for blues music fans especially Eric Clapton fans as the latest news stated that the guitar legend will be releasing a cool stuff to the market this November. According to Eric's official site, the new stuff that the blues guitar legend set to dropped is the U.S Deluxe edition of Eric and John Mayall's songs which being bundled in an album titled "John Mayall with Eric Clapton Blues Breakers: US Deluxe Edition".

The special record reportedly will be released via Universal Music Group on November 17 this year, which will make a great Holiday gift for blues music lovers. Just as the album's title, the special deluxe album will be a special record package released as an U.S version only which contains mono and stereo versions of Eric and John's songs.

Beside that, the deluxe album which consist of double CD will also provides music lovers with songs recorded for the Immediate and Purdah record labels and tracks specially recorded from John and Eric's live performances at the Flamingo Club back in March/April 1966. This record would also be something to cheer Eric's fans that were disappointed when the guitar legend had to cancel his performance at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame on October 31.