Photo: Joey Belladonna meme | By Charlie Wilson, AOL News | Metal singer Joey Belladonna performed the Star-Spangled Banner at Lumen Field for the Seattle Seahawks’ game against the Chicago Bears on ESPN’s Monday Night Football — and fans were not happy.
The 66-year-old performed an acoustic version of the national anthem, with opinions mixed — as one NFL fan even dubbed it a “national atrocity.”
Belladonna performed the national anthem at Lumen Field during a game between two teams seen as Super Bowl contenders and potential NFC Championship Game participants: the Seahawks and the Bears. But a majority of fans began the game speaking about Belladonna. It came as MNF viewers thought they could see a clear sign of tensions between Troy Aikman and Joe Buck.
One wrote, “Seattle brought out one of the worst National Anthem singer I have ever heard. This dude is trash.”
Another posted, “Whoever this is singing national anthem sounds horrible lol”
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However, some fans praised the performance; one commented, “Joey Balladonna — an American heavy metal singer best known as the lead vocalist for Seattle award-winning thrash metal band Anthrax killed it on the National Anthem at the Monday Night Football game tonight!”
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Read the full story here:
https://www.aol.com/articles/seahawks-slammed-over-national-atrocity-012713000.html
Video – Listen for yourselves:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/football/nfl-fans-slam-worst-national-anthem-rendition-of-the-year/vi-AA2gCYjv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6ae9ffbc37f9475d95bf4d06cc0460ab&ei=48
Michael Sweet: To all the haters – you get up in front of thousands of people and sing live (A cappella!) and try sounding remotely close to as good as this! Great job Joey Belladonna
Barb: To me, Joey sounded good, on the whole, but did have some trouble reaching the high notes. As Michael said, “a cappella” is really hard to do!
Photo: Joey Belladonna meme | From two Facebook accounts:
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