METAL—While you can read all about Atriarch’s new record, tonight’s also the album release for
Usnea‘s Random Cosmic Violence, their first for Relapse Records and a four-song steamrolling saga of brutal sludge and doom, violently loud and punishingly slow. Go tonight and witness both bands, along with the ethereal Muscle and Marrow, and see why Portland’s heavy music scene is the most interesting thing going. NED LANNAMANN
Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy, 9 pm, $8
FILM—When Edward Snowden was holed up in a Hong Kong hotel, only one filmmaker was in his room with him: documentarian Laura Poitras. Poitras’ Citizenfour serves as a horrifying overview of America’s surveillance state—and as a portrait of Snowden himself, who is nervous, funny, inspiring, and, above all, admirably certain of the importance of his actions. ERIK HENRIKSEN
Living Room Theaters, 341 SW 10th, see Movie Times, $5-10