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Music Slipknot's '. Load More. See our ethics statement. The tradition has been around since After Virginia Tech installed a new scoreboard, the athletics marketing department wanted a new song for the team to come out to.

BLA seismograph pic. Before one particularly chilly night game, some of the Virginia Tech marching band members started jumping up and down to keep warm before the team's entrance.

Not everything Bob Rock suggested made it past Hetfield and Ulrich. And so it proved. Released on July 29, , Enter Sandman reached No.