Itâs been four years since Two of Swords, and Bentrees finally drop Silver Veins. Six tracks, no filler, no showing off – just that thick, hypnotic low-end fuzz theyâve been hammering since the early days. Recorded at Sonusville Studio in Siliqua, it sounds like it – earthy, not overproduced, just real instruments in a room, breathing the same dusty air.
Bentrees have always been a strange beast: Sardinian roots, desert soul. Theyâre still a duo – Riccardo Podda on guitar and voice, Mauro Cocco on drums – but you never feel like anythingâs missing. The guitar tone fills the whole space, warm and cracked around the edges, while Mauro plays like heâs holding the songs together with ropes and sweat.
Silver Veins isnât chasing trends or trying to out-heavy anyone. Itâs slower, thicker, more introspective. You can tell theyâve been looking inward, not outward. Thereâs this feeling of searching – not for some new direction, but for balance. You hear it in how they build tension, let things breathe, and then drop a riff like a stone through water.
The psych touches are there, but they donât feel tacked on. They grow naturally out of the groove – one moment youâre deep in a riff that couldâve been born in the Californian desert circa â94, and the next youâre floating somewhere above Sardiniaâs red hills at sunset. The album title fits perfectly; itâs heavy music, but it pulses with life underneath.
If Psychollage was the sound of two guys figuring out what they could do together, and Two of Swords was them sharpening their edge, Silver Veins feels like the payoff – slower burn, deeper cut. You donât come to this record for hooks or choruses. You come for the vibe, the trance, the sense that these riffs have been turning in the earth for centuries before anyone plugged in.
By the end, you donât feel like youâve listened to six separate songs – more like youâve been through one long, smoke-filled ritual. Itâs heavy, itâs human, itâs alive.
Bentrees didnât reinvent stoner rock, they just reminded everyone how to mean it.
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Released by Argonauta Records on October 17th, 2025
Music source for review â Grand Sounds PR
