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Saint Vitus Bar, Brooklyn’s Heavy Metal Mecca, Closes Greenpoint Location Permanently
Saint Vitus Bar, the Brooklyn venue that hosted countless concerts like Megadeth and a Nirvana 'reunion,' has closed its Williamsburg location.
Saint Vitus Bar, the legendary Brooklyn heavy metal venue that has hosted countless up-and-coming bands as well as special club shows by Megadeth, Anthrax, Deafheaven, Killing Joke, Carcass, Against Me and, most famously, a “Nirvana reunion” that featured Joan Jett, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and St. Vincent and others playing with the band’s three surviving members, has permanently closed its longtime location in the borough’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Along with thousands of concerts, the venue also hosted parties as well as dance nights, karaoke and book events for the likes of John Lydon and patron saint Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi. It was no accident that the surviving members of Nirvana chose Saint Vitus Bar as the location for their special 2014 “reunion” club show after they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center just a few miles away.
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