Hokie fans make impact during Metallica concert

Hokie fans make impact during Metallica concert

Here is something fun, Hokie fans made an impact during Wednesday night’s Metallica concert, literally.

Metallica finally visits Lane Stadium on tour 25 years after 'Enter Sandman' became Virginia Tech tradition

Virginia Tech adopted the band's hit as its team intro music; 25 years later, it'll finally be performed live

Virginia Tech prepares for Metallica concert

BLACKSBURG — The lush grass of Worsham Field was stripped away. The sprinkler heads were removed. The field that is home to the Virginia Tech football team was barren and level.

Enter Metallica: Band to play at Virginia Tech after years as unofficial football anthem

BLACKSBURG — In August of 2000, Metallica had just wrapped up its Summer Sanitarium Tour. In its final show of that tour, it played — during a second of three encores — “Enter Sandman,” the band’s hit song from 1991. Later that month, that same song played, for the first time, as the entrance music for the Virginia Tech football team as it charged onto the field before a game at Lane Stadium. Wednesday night, in a spectacle that feels as if it’s…