Witching Chronicles: Exploring Bentrees’ Silver Veins

It’s 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 they’ve 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. They’re still a duo – Riccardo Podda on guitar and voice, Mauro Cocco on drums – but you never feel like anything’s missing. The guitar tone fills the whole space, warm and cracked around the edges, while Mauro plays like he’s holding the songs together with ropes and sweat.

Silver Veins isn’t chasing trends or trying to out-heavy anyone. It’s slower, thicker, more introspective. You can tell they’ve been looking inward, not outward. There’s 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 don’t feel tacked on. They grow naturally out of the groove – one moment you’re deep in a riff that could’ve been born in the Californian desert circa ’94, and the next you’re floating somewhere above Sardinia’s red hills at sunset. The album title fits perfectly; it’s 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 don’t 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 don’t feel like you’ve listened to six separate songs – more like you’ve been through one long, smoke-filled ritual. It’s heavy, it’s human, it’s alive.

Bentrees didn’t 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 – Grand Sounds PR

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