Metallica Perform “Enter Sandman” at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition:

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Metallica Perform "Enter Sandman" at Virginia Tech Stadium 25 Years After It Became School Tradition:

Metallica finally brought “Enter Sandman” to Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium — 25 years after it became a school tradition as the Hokies’ game-day hype intro.

Since 2000, the iconic metal song has blared from the loudspeakers as the Virginia Tech football team takes the field on game days, becoming a school tradition in the process. Metallica have been well aware of the song’s significance in Blacksburg, once paying tribute to legendary Va. Tech coach Frank Beamer in a video message that was played before his last game nine years ago.

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At last, Metallica themselves made their way to Blacksburg for a concert at Lane Stadium on Wednesday (May 7th) as part of their ongoing “M72 Tour.”

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The special gig opened with an intro that simulated the football team’s walkout, with a recording of “Enter Sandman” sending the crowd into a frenzy, as captured in audience footage. From there, Metallica launched into a set-opening rendition of “Creeping Death” before running through their typical career-spanning “M72” setlist, which closed with an actual live performance of “Enter Sandman.”

Even current Virginia Tech head coach Brent Pry was in attendance, taking in the gig from his private suite at the stadium. Before the show, he met with the members of Metallica, presenting each with a No. 25 Hokies jersey and a No. 72 jersey, commemorating the “M72” tour.

The Metallica-Virginia Tech lore runs deep, and even took a tragic turn in 2009 when a Virginia Tech student, Morgan Dana Harrington, went missing following a Metallica concert in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was eventually found to have been murdered. Metallica offered up a $50k reward, in addition to a $100k reward from Crimestoppers, for information leading to a conviction (prime suspect Jesse L. Matthew, Jr. was later sentenced to four consecutive live sentences for the murder of Harrington and another student, Hannah Graham, who attended the University of Virginia).

As for Metallica, the thrash legends’ tour rolls on with a stop at the Sonic Temple fest in Columbus, Ohio, where they’ll play two separate sets on Friday (May 9th) and Sunday (May 11th). Get tickets here.

You can check out audience footage from the Lane Stadium show, along with the setlist, below.

Setlist:
Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ride the Lightning
King Nothing
Lux Æterna
Screaming Suicide
Kirk and Rob Doodle (“Hell and Back” first performance since 2012)
The Day That Never Comes
Fuel
Orion
Nothing Else Matters
Sad but True
One
Seek & Destroy
Master of Puppets
Enter Sandman


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