Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” reaches 800 weeks on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, becoming the band’s first track to hit that longevity milestone.

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Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” celebrates 700 weeks on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart, becoming the band’s longest-charting hit by far. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 12: (L-R) Robert Trujillo, ...

For the last 25 years, Virginia Tech begins every game at Lane Stadium the same way: by blasting Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman” while the Hokies take the field. “It’s just a different type of feeling,” ...

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.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mark Casse was not a Metallica guy until he began training Sandman. Now he is a big fan. The band has returned the favor. Front man James Hetfield met the horse at Churchill Downs ...

A leading contender for the 2025 Kentucky Derby is off to never never land thanks to some support from the iconic heavy metal band tied to his name. Sandman, a gray colt bred in Kentucky and trained ...

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 ...