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.

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 on Wednesday night, as Metallica performed "Enter Sandman,