“It probably goes against your UVA principles to be there,” he said. Actually, no. Big fan of Metallica, and I would love to see them in concert, and I assumed that environment down there in Lane ...

When last year's long anticipated EA Sports College Football 25 came out in the middle of July, one thing was missing, Metallica's "Enter Sandman." The song has been known for 25 years to be the ...

They are an odd couple to the uninitiated—Metallica, long a Bay Area institution, and Virginia Tech, an unassuming school in the rural South. In the minds of college football fans, however, the two ...

"Exit light. Enter night. Take my hand. We're off to never-never land" is what the Virginia Tech Hokies hear before they take the field for a home game at Lane Stadium. And that tradition was embraced ...

Metallica played their first concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium on Wednesday, where the crowd’s rapturous reaction to “Enter Sandman” — which has doubled as the Hokies football team’s intro music ...

The energy builds from the first guitar notes emanating across Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium, a low and ominous riff building to a thumping heavy-metal peak. As it does, the Hokies barrel out of the ...

There are many great entrances in college football, but few are as electric or as loud as Virginia Tech running out to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" for a big game (especially at night). What started as ...

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The Virgina Tech Hokies have used the 1991 tune as their entrance song at football games for over 20 years Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.