Presentation took place at Lane Stadium, where Hit serves as the entry music of the football team Virginia Tech Hokies
THE Metallic He did his first show at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium last Wednesday, 7, where the euphoric reaction of the public to “Enter Sandman” – which a quarter of century ago is the entry song of the football team Virginia Tech Hokies – was registered on the Richter scale.
Virginia Tech’s seismological observatory measured the audience’s response crowded with the classic Black Album (1991). The vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield started the performance with a scream of “Hokies! Let’s go!” (“Hokies! Come on!”). When Lars Ulrich’s battery began, the 60,000 fans jumping simultaneously caused a strong enough vibration to generate a noticeable peak in the seismograph – the equivalent of a “small” but prolonged, earthquake.
The Night the Earth Shook 🎸 pic.twitter.com/khtwpg1os8
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Virginia Tech published on her official website:
“The band kept ‘ENTER SANDMAN’ for the last song of the night. It did not disappoint, the impact was so great that it shook Lane Stadium as to be recorded in the Helicorder of the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory. Nothing compares to experience this live, but this multicamera video shared by Metallica comes very close. ”
During the last 25 years, “Enter Sandman” It has been the soundtrack of the field entry on the game days of the Hokies football team. According to Hokies Dailyeven the reaction of the fans to the recorded version of the song has already swing the seismograph, as before important confrontations against Miami in 2011 and Ohio State in 2021.
Like the team, Metallica himself took the stage to the sound of the recorded version of “Enter Sandman”besides, as mentioned, end the show with the live performance of the song. Luke Daltonstudent at Virginia Tech, told the ABC News 13:
“Experience this live, with the band itself playing, instead of the version of the games – because we are already excited only with the games – but listening to Metallica playing at the stadium, live, is just amazing.”
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Before their first Lane Stadium show, Metallica met the coach of the Virginia Tech football team, Brent prywhich presented the band with personalized Hokies shirts: one with the number 25 (representing the 25 years in which “Enter Sandman” is used as input music) and another with number 72, in reference to the current M72 TOUR of the band.
Pry said to Hokies Daily:
“Everything starts with ‘ENTER SANDMAN ‘. There is no better entrance to university football. ”
“Enter Sandman”Remember, it was also the entry music of the legendary throwing Mariano Riverafrom the New York Yankees.
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Source: Rollingstone
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