COHEED AND CAMBRIA have released the official music video for “One Last Miracle”, a striking and provocative new chapter from their album The Father of Make Believe. Directed by Alek Wasilewski with concept by Claudio Sanchez, the video continues the band’s long tradition of blending music, narrative, and social commentary into a singular cinematic experience.
The visual centers on Santa Claus receiving a heartbreaking letter from a child whose mother has been taken by ICE, pleading for her return in time for Christmas. What unfolds is a darkly surreal and emotionally charged story that reframes holiday mythology as a vehicle for resistance, empathy, and moral reckoning, pushing the song’s themes far beyond metaphor.
“One Last Miracle” serves as a direct sequel to the band’s 2019 video The Unheavenly Christmas Carol, created for the song “Toys”. In that chapter, Santa attempted to teach an overweight, orange-tinted, fascist-leaning president a lesson — one that only temporarily held. Six years later, the world has worsened, and Santa is no longer interested in half measures. This time, he forms an uneasy alliance with his traditionally villainous cousin Krampus to not only reunite the child with their mother, but to put an end to the cruelty altogether.
Bold, confrontational, and unapologetically political, the video reinforces COHEED AND CAMBRIA’s willingness to challenge power structures through storytelling. “One Last Miracle” stands as a reminder that when institutions fail to protect the vulnerable, mythology, art, and imagination can still rise in defiance — and if no one else will stand up to tyranny, Santa just might.
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