Orgone

The cover art on Orgone’s 2022 album “Lost Knights” looks like it should belong to one of the spaciest psych-rock bands in the universe. Giant old skulls with trippy checkerboard-patterned eyes sit perched atop a leafy landscape and against a cosmic backdrop.

If you don’t know the band, you’d probably hit “play” and expect big, interstellar guitar riffs.

Instead, you get Orgone’s specialty, which is a different kind of heavy: Deeply groovy, gritty, percussive funk-rock that funks like the ’60s and ’70s and rocks in a modern way. Orgone is most definitely psychedelic, but more like Sly & the Family Stone psychedelic than Pink Floyd psychedelic.

Pre-pandemic, the Los Angeles-based band was a fixture in Bend, stopping in town for a show every year or two. Next week, they’ll be back for what promises to be a sizzling gig at Bend’s Volcanic Theatre Pub.

Orgone, with Brother Gabe Trio: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, doors open 8 p.m., $20, Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend, volcanictheatre.com.