There are various nice entrances in faculty soccer, however few are as electrical or as loud as Virginia Tech operating out to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for an enormous recreation (particularly at evening). 

What began as a fan’s selection between three songs — “Enter Sandman,” “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sirius” — when Virginia Tech debuted its new video board in 2000 grew to become an iconic custom at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia. Ultimately, followers began leaping up and down in unison because the thunderous intro kicks in, with 60,000-plus (most of whom weren’t born when this music got here out) belting out the lyrics because the Hokies run onto the sector. The stadium’s bounce has registered on native seismographs on a number of events. 

Regardless of requires Metallica to play a reside intro or make its solution to Blacksburg, the closest they’ve ever gotten to having the legendary band on website was a pre-recorded video earlier than a 2011 recreation in opposition to Miami. That’s till Wednesday evening, when Metallica lastly makes its first look at Lane Stadium for a cease on their M72 World Tour. 

It’ll be an unimaginable ambiance for Metallica reside in Blacksburg, significantly when that opening rift for “Enter Sandman” kicks in and the stadium will get to leaping. We do not typically see stadium excursions hit faculty cities outdoors main metropolitan areas — locations like Blacksburg aren’t precisely the simplest journey to make — however Metallica’s go to to Lane Stadium offered out rapidly. For a very long time, resale tickets had been extraordinarily expensive for what figures to be essentially the most distinctive cease on their tour.