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Chris Cornell – “The Promise”

LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 20: Singer Chris Cornell performs at Prophets of Rage and Friends’ Anti Inaugural Ball at the Taragram Ballroom on January 20, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has written a new song for The Promise, a movie about the Armenian genocide that stars Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. The song, also called "The Promise," is a big, grand, stately power ballad with strings and electronics and absolutely no Zeppelin-style riffage. But strings-and-electronics is sort of Cornell's comfort zone at this point, and he sounds completely at home on it. Check it out below.

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The song is out now at iTunes, and all proceeds go to the International Rescue Committee.

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