Metallica Fans Credit the Band With Saving Their Lives After a Truck Crashed Into Their House

Metallica may have just dropped a documentary called Metallica Saved My Life, but for one Virginia family, the title isn’t just a clever nod to fan devotion — it’s their actual, terrifying reality.

On May 6, David and Kristin McKee, along with their daughter Madeleine, went to bed earlier than usual to rest up for Metallica’s show at Lane Stadium the next day. Normally, they’d be camped out in the TV room watching something forgettable — but because of Metallica, they called it early.

A few hours later, a pickup truck slammed into the exact part of their house where they would have been sitting. The living room was obliterated. But the family was safe — because they’d decided to skip the nightly binge in favour of catching some pre-show sleep.

“We heard a loud explosion, glass shattered. It was just madness from that point on,” Kristin told local outlet WDBJ7. “We were so fortunate. That night, my daughter could have walked down that hallway and found us in the rubble. I thank God every day, and Metallica, for saving us.”

Look, it’s one thing to say your favourite band changed your life. It’s another to say they kept you from getting flattened by a rogue truck in the middle of the night. Metallica didn’t just deliver Master of Puppets, they unintentionally dodged debris on your behalf.

The family’s home is now undergoing a six-month rebuild — and Metallica, in true form, are still out there flattening cities the only way they know how: with volume. Their M72 World Tour continues into 2026, presumably saving lives one early bedtime at a time.

So next time someone says going to a metal show is just noise and nostalgia, remind them that sometimes it’s also the thing that gets you to bed early enough to not die in a structural collapse.