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Louder
Louder’s weekly newsletter is jam-packed with the team’s personal highlights from the last seven days, including features, breaking news, reviews and tons of juicy exclusives from the world of alternative music.
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Classic Rock
The Classic Rock newsletter is an essential read for the discerning rock fan. Every week we bring you the news, reviews and the very best features and interviews from our extensive archive. Written by rock fans for rock fans.
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Metal Hammer
For the last four decades Metal Hammer has been the world’s greatest metal magazine. Created by metalheads for metalheads, ‘Hammer takes you behind the scenes, closer to the action, and nearer to the bands that you love the most.
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Prog
The Prog newsletter brings you the very best of Prog Magazine and our website, every Friday. We'll deliver you the very latest news from the Prog universe, informative features and archive material from Prog’s impressive vault.
No matter which way you slice it, 2018 has been a brilliant year for new music. Whether it's experimental blues rock or hard-hitting heavy metal that floats your boat, the past twelve months have seen future classics served up from every corner of the world of rock'n'roll.
But now it's time to crown the year's best albums, we're handing the decision over to you. We've compiled the 110 albums which made it into Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog's end of year's critics' polls, and now we want to know which you think are best.
Let us know which of these albums have made your 2018 a better place by voting in the poll below. Have we left out your favourite? Then you can add your own suggestion in the field at the bottom of the poll.
We'll be announcing the top 50 at the end of the week, so make sure to check back on Friday.
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