DARKNESS—Portland’s metal scene is mightier than ever, and the Fall into Darkness festival invites you to three skull-crushing days of local notables along with imports up and down the West Coast. Tonight is headlined by one of our most gorgeous and blackest, Agalloch. I cannot stress the importance of earplugs enough. MS
w/Atriarch, Sedan; Branx, 320 SE 2nd, 8 pm, $15-20, all ages
VERY SUPERSTITIOUS—Horror today seems overly preoccupied with the gore factor, but little of it comes close to the ridiculous special effects and too-real-for-camp scenes in John Carpenter’s underrated 1982 classic The Thing. Screened tonight by podcasters Cort and Fatboy, it remains Kurt Russell’s movie, really: Dude knows his way around a blowtorch—that’s a special effect by itself. WE
Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, 11 pm, $3, 21+