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Metallica Set Off Richter Scale After Playing Hokies Game Day Hype Song at Virginia Tech Stadium For First Time
Metallica set off richter scale on Wednesday (May 7) when they played the Hokies hype song 'Enter Sandman' at Virginia Tech stadium for first time.
It’s one thing for the Virginia Tech Hokies to blast Metallica ‘s “Enter Sandman” as the football team’s game-day hype song when they take the field at Lane Stadium for home games. In fact, on Wednesday night (May 7) during Metallica’s first-ever appearance at Lane Stadium on their M72 world tour, Hokie fans got so hyped that the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory said the jumping up and down set off the Richter scale. Though playing the song has long been a tradition, one fan told ABC 13 News that watching the band open with a snippet of the instrumental intro — while flashing the team’s logo on the big screen — and then close out the show with the anthem was something else entirely.
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