Followers attending Metallica’s gig at Lane Stadium in Virginia final week prompted a mini earthquake as they jumped alongside to the band’s fashionable observe, Enter Sandman.

Exercise from the gig, which occurred on 7 Might, was registered by The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory as a minor seismic occasion, which followers on-line are calling the “Metallica Quake”.

It’s believed the small tremor occurred as followers – greater than 60,000 of them – jumped in unison to the opening chords of the mega hit. Fittingly, Enter Sandman can be used because the Virginia Tech Hokies soccer workforce entrance theme, whose house stadium is the place the band bought the earth shaking that very night.

“Metallica saved Enter Sandman for the ultimate music of the night time. It didn’t disappoint, shaking Lane Stadium so laborious it registered on the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory’s helicorder,” says Virginia Tech College, the place the stadium resides (through Billboard).

Regardless of this, the shake was in fact very minor within the grand scheme of issues, posing no security threat to others. Analysis affiliate on the Observatory, Martin Chapman, provides, “The magnitude would have been lower than 1.0, too small to be felt even a mile away.”

You’ll be able to take a look at the band’s efficiency under:

Metallica’s followers are fairly the pressure, a lot in order that band are releasing a brand new movie this 12 months completely devoted to celebrating them. Titled Metallica Saved My Life, the movie options interviews with the band members and a few of its most loyal followers. They’ll share their very own distinctive tales of discovering group by way of Metallica’s music, and what it means to them.

You’ll be able to view the total record of remaining tour dates for the band through their official web site.