Metallica brought years of pent-up excitement to Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium on Wednesday night, energizing the crowd with a live performance of the Virginia Tech Hokies’ iconic entrance song during a stop on their M72 World Tour.

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. It's quite another thing for the band to play the song on the team's home field for the first time in front of a sold-out crowd primed to set things off.

Band played first-ever concert at Lane Stadium, where the Black Album classic has served as the Hokies football team's intro music for 25 years