Highroad No. 28 emerge from the shadows with the devastating 'Ache'

After twelve silent years, most bands would tiptoe back into the world. But Highroad No. 28 don’t tiptoe, they bleed their way in. Their comeback single 'Ache' is a slow-burning exhale from a group that has spent more than a decade learning how to hold the weight of its own history.

From the moment the first note lands, 'Ache' feels like standing in an abandoned room where ghosts haven’t quite decided whether to stay or leave. The guitars unfurl in long, cinematic arcs, while the bass churns underneath like something unresolved.

What’s striking is how controlled the intensity is. Highroad No. 28 were once known for their feral, unrestrained heaviness, but here the band reach for something more grown and internalised. The voice at the centre of the song is raw in a way that’s sounds cracked around the edges, weighed down by longing, yet grounded by an honesty that cuts straight through the mix.

And perhaps that’s why “Ache” hits so hard: it carries the emotional residue of a band that never stopped being a band, even when life pulled them out of the spotlight. The track feels like a continuation rather than a revival, threaded with the same restless introspection that shaped their early records, but deepened by disappearance and re-emergence.

If this is the opening chapter to their forthcoming album 'The Will to Endure', then Highroad No. 28 are gearing up for their most emotionally charged work to date. 'Ache' marks an evolution, a sharpening of craft, and a refusal to shy away from the darker corners of the human condition.

Highroad No. 28 are back, not as the band they were, but as the band they survived into. And judging by 'Ache', the next chapter is going to cut deep.