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Legendary Brooklyn Metal Club Saint Vitus Bar to Return in a New Location This Fall

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Over two years since being shut down in the middle of a show by the New York City Department of Buildings, Saint Vitus Bar will return to Brooklyn this fall in a new location. The new venue will be at 428 Troutman Street in Bushwick, the site of the old Brooklyn Made club, which closed in 2025. After a lot of teasing on social media leading up to the reveal, with a series of videos where Günther, the mascot/mannequin, left the bar at the old Greenpoint location on Manhattan Avenue and Clay Street, leaves his former home and sojourns to his new one. You can watch the last video in the series, which has him arriving at 428 Troutman and going inside, below.

Dubbed the “home of metal” in NYC, if not the USA, by Ghost Cult in our post-mortem about the closure, we are stoked to see it return!

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RIP Saint Vitus Bar – The Home of Metal 2013-2024 and The Top 5 Shows (Nirvana, Against Me!)

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Pour one out for Saint Vitus Bar, The Home of Metal (and more) 2013-2024. We share our feelings on the closing and also:

We ranked the Top Five Most Important Shows Ever at Saint Vitus Bar
Top 15 Shows Covered by Ghost Cult
Top Interviews we conducted there
Top 5 Special Events

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CONCERT REVIEW: Hellripper – Cloak – Sarcator Live at Poppodium 013 

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Hellripper have steadily been growing in esteem over the past several years, and today they are playing the small stage in 013, just like they did Roadburn 2019. The tour has been on for about a week, but is full steam ahead. Contending with the massive fun fair in Tilburg, makes this week’s shows a little tough. The time schedule had all bands set to play 45-minute sets, with Sarcator entering the stage just 15 minutes after doors open, with 15-minute changeovers. This seems like a Formula 1-level time window, so let’s see if they fully pull it off. It’s speed metal, but this is very tight planning. All of this so the show can end at the timely hour of 10 at night so a party can be held for the fun fair after. Talk about flipping venues! Continue reading →