Read this: What it was like playing a socially distanced metal gig
As part of a new video appropriately titled Wear A Mask! Wear A Mask! Catchy PSA For Mask Safety, Vance – alongside his daughter – reveals, "Since I play in a folk band, my friend Don suggested that I write a song encouraging people to wear masks. So my daughter and I worked something up, and here we go."
Far from delivering a catchy and easy-on-the-ears folk song, however, the musician unleashes an epic black metal track, complete with corpsepaint and lyrics like, 'Wear a mask, don't be a chode / When you're in line at Trader Joe's.'
"Whether you like folk music or, say, black metal, it's important to remember to wear a mask in public to help keep your friends and neighbours safe," he writes in the description of the video. "This song has a simple message and hopefully it's catchy enough to stick in the ol' noggin! Spread love, not germs."
See? It's not hard, is it?