If you ever got pinned against the stage in the front room at Saint Vitus, the bar is coming back. The black-walled Brooklyn metal venue that the city shut down in the middle of a hardcore set in 2024 will reopen this fall in Bushwick.

Saint Vitus announced the move in an Instagram video posted July 3, a clip that runs the venue’s mannequin mascot, Günther, before revealing the new address. The bar will reopen this fall at 428 Troutman Street, taking over the former home of Brooklyn Made, a Bushwick music venue that closed after a little over three years in February 2025. The new address already ran as a live-music venue under its previous tenant, not a raw storefront someone has to convert.

Saint Vitus opened in Greenpoint in 2011 and ran for more than a decade before the city ended it without warning. Following a city inspection, the Department of Buildings closed the venue during a hardcore show after determining it lacked the proper permits to operate as a live music venue. Gothamist reported the bar was found to be operating as an illegal eating and drinking establishment, with paperwork on file only for a commercial store and the storage of machinery. The city ruled that on paper the building was a shop and a place to keep machines, and it enforced that ruling live: city officials shut it down in the middle of a hardcore band’s performance.