It has been almost 11 months since Facet’s most recent show in Bend, and guitarist/vocalist Max Senna remembers the coverage the Oakland-based band received in The Bulletin.

“We really appreciate you reaching out,” he said in an interview from a van barreling through New Mexico. “Last time, you wrote some really nice things.”

To recap, here are some things I compared Facet to on these very pages in April of 2024:

• A battering ram smashing through a big metal door.

• A locomotive blasting its own tunnel through a mountain.

• Tumbling down a bobsled course filled to the brim with scrap metal and serrated knives.

These may not be compliments for every band, but they are for Facet, a lean, mean three-piece whose brand of rock ‘n’ roll is loud and abrasive and more than a little unhinged, with heaping helpings of dissonance and occasional hooks — rusty, razor-sharp hooks — peeking through the din.

More precisely, Facet plays pure, unadulterated noise-rock descended from bands like Unwound, The Jesus Lizard and Big Black. To hear Senna tell it, there isn’t a whole lot more to them than exactly that.

“We just kind of showed up and this is what happened, I guess,” he said when asked about the band’s origin story. “There was no super intentional direction other than we all like some bands and we have some similar influences and we made this insane thing.”

Besides Senna, Facet’s lineup currently includes bassist/vocalist Jose Davila and drummer Bradley Walker, who replaced the band’s first drummer — a guy with “real-life stuff going on,” Senna said.

“He had a job and responsibilities and wanted to go on vacation for fun and have a nice life and stuff,” he said. “I just wanted to play as much as possible.”

That was the plan: To hit the road hard in support of Facet’s 2019 debut, “Duck.” But then COVID-19 came along and shut down the world, and the band “didn’t do anything” for a couple of years, Senna said.

By 2023, though, they had another 10 songs ready to record, and in August of that year, they released a self-titled full-length via the Portland-based label Hex Records.

“We’ve been going nonstop since then,” said Senna, a little over halfway through a 1,700-mile drive from Oakland to a gig in Denton, Texas.

Earlier this month, in fact, the band released a split EP with the Seattle punk band Haunted Horses, featuring five Facet tracks stuffed to the gills with buzzsaw guitars, earsplitting distortion, earth-moving low end and thunderous drum beats, plus some memorable melodic moments and flashes of wit tucked into songs that are heavy in both sound and subject matter.

Senna’s own sense of humor is as dry as the desert.

“We’re just trying to have a good time, you know? I want people to come away from seeing our show like, ‘Wow, that was super nice,’” he said with a chuckle.

“I just want to bring kindness across the country so people are nicer and more thoughtful to each other,” he continued. “Or we want them to be really scared. It’s one or the other.”

If You Go

What: Facet, The Kronk Men and Weapon World

When: 5:30 p.m. Sunday, doors open 5 p.m.

Where: Silver Moon Brewing, 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend

Cost: $10

Contact: instagram.com/thekronkmen