Chris Cornell Keeps “The Promise” In His Gorgeous New Song [VIDEO]

Chris Cornell, who rose to fame as a howling frontman in perpetual Jesus Christ pose for Soundgarden, has dropped the heart-stopping “The Promise.”

Set against the backdrop of the Armenian Genocide — which, to this day, is still systematically denied by the Turkish government that enacted it in 1919 — Cornell’s new song “The Promise” is for the film of the same name that stars Christian Bale, Charlotte LeBon, and Oscar Isaac.

Check it out below.

With soft music and haunting lyrics, Chris Cornell sings of the promise to survive, and thrive, against all odds.

And while it’s easy to discount the Armenian Genocide as being a “minor” incident in world history, let’s remember that, during Hitler’s Obersalzburg Speech (in which, in 1939, he justified Germany’s attack on Poland), he spoke these chilling words:

"“I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”"

The new song by Chris Cornell — and, The Promise film — is, then, timely during these Resistance-heavy times. In a time when the President of the United States of America is being compared to Adolf Hitler, and in a time when we’re called upon to remember the mistakes of the past to prevent them from making them in the present and in the future, it’s important to remember that Hitler was able to do what he did because of the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

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All proceeds from the sale of “The Promise” will be donated, by Chris Cornell, to The International Rescue Committee.