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Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ at Sold-Out Virginia Tech Concert Sparks Seismic Activity
When Metallica played their first-ever concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium, the crowd’s reaction to "Enter Sandman" triggered seismic activity.
Metallica played their first concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium Wednesday, where the crowd’s rapturous reaction to “Enter Sandman” — which has doubled as the Hokies football team’s intro music for the past half-century — triggered the Richter scale. The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory measured the sold-out crowd’s response to the Black Album classic, with singer James Hetfield prompting the performance with a chant of “Hokies! Prior to the band’s first-ever concert at Lane Stadium, Metallica met with Hokies football coach Brent Pry, who presented them with the team’s jerseys with the numbers 25 (for how long “Enter Sandman” has been the intro music) and 72, to mark their current M72 Tour.
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