Metallica pronounces the winner of their Metallica Marching Band Competitors, with $85,000 in musical devices and gear going to the college’s music program.
Metallica’s James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo have chosen the winners of the Metallica Marching Band Competitors, asserting the outcomes Sunday night time on social media. The highest spot went to the Auburn College Marching Band in Alabama, which additionally earned the dignity of fan favourite, which was decided through on-line voting. Auburn will obtain a complete of $85,000 in musical devices and gear for the college’s applications.
The Auburn College Marching Band was considered one of 450 marching bands from schools and excessive colleges throughout the US who entered the competition, which Metallica introduced again in April.
Notaby, two different marching bands from Alabama — the Cleveland Excessive College Golden Power Band and the Pell Metropolis Excessive College Marching Band of Gold — have been among the many prime 5 finalists within the contest’s highschool division, whereas Texas colleges additionally made a powerful displaying.
Marching bands submitted YouTube movies of their ensembles enjoying a Metallica tune from a curated checklist of 13, together with “Enter Sandman,” “Fade to Black,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and “Grasp of Puppets.” The finalists have been chosen by a workforce of seven judges, all of whom are skilled musicians with expertise as band administrators and educators.
This was the primary yr of the Metallica Marching Band Contest, which guarantees to be an annual occasion, in keeping with representatives for the band.
The complete checklist of finalists is beneath:
Collegiate Division 1 ($75,000 in prizes)
- Auburn College (fan favourite, extra $10,000 in prizes)
- Fresno State College
- Iowa State College
- College of Iowa
- College of Texas at Austin
Collegiate Division 2 & 3 ($40,000 in prizes)
- Jap New Mexico College
- Blinn School
- Manchester College
- West Texas A&M College
- Western Illinois College
Excessive College Division, Small, Medium, & Giant ($15,000 every in prizes)
Giant
- Dobyns-Bennett Excessive College — Kingsport, TN (fan favourite, extra $10,000 in prizes)
- Lambert Excessive College — Suwanee, GA
- Lorena Excessive College — Lorena, TX
- Austin Excessive College — Sugarland, TX
- Pell Metropolis Excessive College — Pell Metropolis, AL
Medium
- Boerne Excessive College — Boerne, TX (TIE)
- Malverne Excessive College — Malverne, NY (TIE)
- Desert Mountain Excessive College — Scottsdale, AZ
- DeWitt Excessive College — DeWitt, MI
- Kell Excessive College — Kennesaw, GA
Small
- Oakton Excessive College — Vienna, VA
- Cleveland Excessive College — Cleveland, AL
- Edinburg Excessive College — Edinburg, TX
- Oologah Excessive College — Oologah, OK
- Valhalla Excessive College — El Cajon, CA