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.

BLACKSBURG – It's the evening Hokie Nation will never forget. After over two decades of jumping along to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” at Virginia Tech football games, over 66,000 fans in Lane Stadium ...

The Hokies are featured on the new college football game.

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 ...