Venue: Saint Vitus
Address: 1120 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11222
Town: Brooklyn, US
Capacity: 350

Saint Vitus, also called Saint Vitus Bar, is a bar and music venue located in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The original location opened in Greenpoint in April 2011, and the 2,500 square feet (230 m2) venue was known for its heavy metal atmosphere. The magazine Kerrang! described Saint Vitus as "one of the most important locations to see loud music in the entire world." Pitchfork named it "The Best Metal Bar in New York City". The New York City Department of Buildings permanently closed Saint Vitus in February 2024 over multiple violations. In July 2026, the venue announced a new location in Bushwick. Saint Vitus was opened in April 2011 by Arty Shepherd, Justin Scurti, and George Souleidis, along with two silent owners. The space was formerly a plumbing school and before that a social club, and the owners hired Matthew Maddy to design the space, with the main intention to be a metal-themed bar that only occasionally held live shows. The name was chosen because it was shared with the doom metal band Saint Vitus, a Bauhaus song, a Black Sabbath song and the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. The first show held there was Liturgy on May 6, 2011. The band Saint Vitus played the venue on September 25, 2012. In its early days, Pitchfork writer Brandon Stosuy booked bands such as Converge, Deafheaven and Iceage to play the venue because, in his words, "if you’re into loud music, and you live in New York, it’s where you want to go to see a show." In 2013, Shepherd and David Castillo, Saint Vitus's talent buyer, started up a record label called Sacrament Recordings and Merchandise to release an album by the band Sannhet. On April 10, 2014, the surviving members of Nirvana played an invite-only show at Saint Vitus directly after their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Barclays Center. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic were joined by guest vocalists Joan Jett, J Mascis, Annie Clark, John McCauley and Kim Gordon. In April 2016, Saint Vitus celebrated