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 schools and excessive colleges 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 a lot of classes, primarily based on the college age teams. The largest winners, within the Faculty (Division 1) class, had been Auburn College in Alabama, who will obtain $75,000 (£58,800) price of musical devices and equipment for his or her faculty.

Different winners embrace Jap New Mexico College, Dobyns-Bennett Excessive Faculty in Tennessee, Boerne Excessive Faculty in Texas, Malverne Excessive Faculty in New York and Oakton Excessive Faculty 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 mentioned that he would love any individual to create a microphone with a built-in straw.

Talking on the band’s in-house podcast The Metallica Report, he mentioned: “Having the ability to perhaps sip some water whereas I’m taking part in, you already know, some type of straw on the microphone…that may very well be cool.”

Metallica will hit the highway once more in Could 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, not too long ago revealed why they tweaked their ‘M72’ tour setlist.