Metallica fan Todd Gerbers of Smith Mountain Lake was attending his first Metallica concert since 1986. "I'm still rocking at the age of 55," he said while tailgating in the Cassell lot. "Those guys are six, seven years older than me … and they're going to put on a hell of a show and rock it. That's just amazing to me."

Wednesday’s stop on the M72 World Tour will be the first for the legendary rock band in Blacksburg as it connects with a fan base that has jumped around and sang the lyrics to “Enter Sandman” for nearly a quarter of a century.