Metallica have introduced the official winners of their first ever ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ marching band competitors.
The band launched the competition final April, with over 450 US faculties and excessive faculties making use of to enter.
Bands had been challenges to create “their most fun, distinctive and spectacular performances of a few of the band’s most beloved songs”, with the band supplying them with musical charts of songs together with ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘Grasp of Puppets’, ‘Fade to Black’ and others.
The band selected the winners themselves in numerous classes, based mostly on the varsity age teams. The most important winners, within the Faculty (Division 1) class, had been Auburn College in Alabama, who will obtain $75,000 (£58,800) value of musical devices and kit for his or her faculty.
Different winners embrace Japanese New Mexico College, Dobyns-Bennett Excessive College in Tennessee, Boerne Excessive College in Texas, Malverne Excessive College in New York and Oakton Excessive College in Virginia.
Take a look at footage of Auburn College’s prize-winning halftime Metallica marching band present above.
Earlier this month, the band’s frontman James Hetfield stated that he would love someone to create a microphone with a built-in straw.
Talking on the band’s in-house podcast The Metallica Report, he stated: “With the ability to possibly sip some water whereas I’m taking part in, you recognize, some form of straw on the microphone…that might be cool.”
Metallica will hit the street once more in Might 2024 for an additional leg of their M72 World Tour, for which they’ll play two nights in every metropolis with two distinctive “no repeats” setlist and totally different help acts. The tour will wrap in Mexico in September 2024.
The band’s bassist Robert Trujillo, in the meantime, just lately revealed why they tweaked their ‘M72’ tour setlist.
