Here’s an awesome look at Virginia Tech players taking the field to ‘Enter Sandman’

Piped-in entrance music is more associated with professional sports, or even wrestling, as opposed to college football. But for the last 15 years, Virginia Tech has built a Lane Stadium tradition with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”

The tradition started in 2000, as a way to use a new scoreboard. The most well-known track off of Metallica’s best-selling album was chosen over Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” and the Allen Parsons Project’s “Sirius.”

Try to picture a Bud Foster defense hyped up by the Allen Parsons Project for a second.

And if the song wasn’t electric enough, per the university, it made quite the entrance of its own in August of 2000:

The song was first played on Aug. 27, 2000, for the season opener against Georgia Tech—the famous ‘Lightning Bowl’ that was canceled after the teams had taken the field but before kickoff. Fans also will remember that game for lightning striking ESPN analyst Lee Corso’s car shortly after he picked against the Hokies.

Whether it’s the opening guitar rift, the bouncing stadium bleachers or the hyped-up Hokies storming the field, “Enter Sandman” has become one of the indelible images of the Virginia Tech program, helping to set the stage for some of the Hokies’ biggest upsets in Blacksburg over the years.