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Their lightning-quick riffs helped helped lay the foundation for thrash metal and made them one of the most successful bands of all time.
And now the members of Metallica can boast that those riffs also helped trigger shaking similar to an earthquake.
The band — which had a pivotal role on the latest season of Stranger Things — managed to shake the Earth’s foundation thanks to the jumping of fans in the audience at its concert at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, May 7, according to ABC 13 News.
The show, which was held at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia, as part of Metallica’s M72 World Tour, reportedly created enough shaking from the jazzed-up fans that it registered on a seismograph a mile away at the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory.
According to Virginia Tech Geophysics professor Dr. Martin Chapman, the band managed to trigger vibrations similar to a minor earthquake after it played the introduction to its 1991 single Enter Sandman.
He said the seismograph readings were detailed enough to allow the scientist to pinpoint two different times when the crowd appeared to trigger an earthquake, with the first being early in the concert, around when the crossover hit was teased.
A Metallica concert at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, May 7, registered similar to a small earthquake, according to ABC 13 News; James Hetfield (L) and Kirk Hammett (R) seen in September 2024 in Seattle, Washington
The show, held at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia, created enough shaking from fans that it registered on a seismograph a mile away at the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory; drummer Lars Ulrich pictured in May 2024 in Munich, Germany
But the group forced fans to wait until the encore to finally hear the lead Black Album cut, and the second burst of vibrations appeared to line up with that moment at the end of the concert.
The Metallica fans must have been doing plenty of jumping and stomping and dancing, as Chapman said the readings for the concert were ‘probably four to five times bigger than what we see typically for a football game.’
According to Chapman, the strength of the vibrations is dependent on how many people are in the stadium for any particular event, and Wednesday’s show appears to have the necessary attendance to create a minor earthquake with more than 65,000 fans turning out to see Metallica shred.
‘What we recorded last night is a lot bigger than what we see at a football game, so Metallica really got the crowd rocking there,’ Chapman told the station.
Although the shaking observed by the lab had similarities with a naturally occurring earthquake, Chapman clarified that it was technically distinct.
He said an earthquake has similar ‘amplitude as the crowd noise from Enter Sandman, but it’s brief. It’s concentrated.’
‘The energy that goes into the ground for the crowd noise is spread out in time, so if you add all that up, if you integrated it over time, you would come out with a signal coming from Lane Stadium that would be approximately a magnitude one or two earthquake, but they’re very different kinds of signals,’ he explained.
Virginia Tech went on to share video of Metallica’s triumphant encore performance of Enter Sandman to its news site, which showed deflated fans letting out disappointed sighs when the band first left the stage, only to rock out as soon as the group returned to sign off with its most popular song.
The seismic activity appeared to coincide with Metallica teasing Enter Sandman early in the show, and it resumed when the band finally played the 1991 hit as its encore; pictured in November 2023 in Detroit, Michigan
Virginia Tech Geophysics professor Dr. Martin Chapman noted that the earthquake-like activity was far stronger than what is felt at Virginia Tech football games; Hetfield and Hammett pictured in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in August 2024
Metallica — which formed in 1981 — is currently comprised of James Hetfiled on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Kirk Hammett on lead guitar and backing vocals, Robert Trujillo on bass and backing vocals and Lars Ulrich on drums
The song isn’t just a popular hit for students in the audience, as Virgina Tech’s football team has used Enter Sandman as its walk-on music for more over two decades.
Metallica — which formed in 1981 — is currently comprised of James Hetfiled on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Kirk Hammett on lead guitar and backing vocals, Robert Trujillo on bass and backing vocals and Lars Ulrich on drums.
The group is currently touring in support of its 2023 album 72 Seasons, which was praised by critics as a return to the more complicated thrash-metal songs that Metallica played in the 1980s, before diversifying its sound in the ’90s to mixed reviews.
Following its ground-shaking Virginia Tech show, Metallica will be taking a break before returning to the road with two shows in Philadelphia on May 23 and 25, followed by touring throughout the US that will conclude with two shows in Denver, Colorado, on June 27 and 29.
Then the group will head abroad with a show in Birmingham, England, on July 5, followed by November and December dates in Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
