Watch Chris Cornell’s Final Music Video, “The Promise”

Watch Chris Cornell’s Final Music Video, “The Promise”
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Chris Cornell’s collaborators have released the final video he worked on before his untimely death last month. Cornell’s song “The Promise” comes from the soundtrack of the film of the same name, a drama about refugees from the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. It opens with photographs from an earlier century, but it soon shifts to feature contemporary footage (much of it donated by photographers and charities) of refugees from Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. Cornell appears throughout, playing acoustic guitar in a darkened studio.

It was Cornell’s intention to highlight the suffering of refugees worldwide,…