Houston Metal Landmark Cecil’s Pub Changing Location

Famous for its death metal stickers in the bathroom and behind the bar, Cecil’s Pub has been a watering hole for professional alcoholics and amateur tipplers alike for four decades, but has lost its lease and is moving on.

The Houston Chronic Ill has more on the closure and soon move for Cecil’s:

Cecil’s Pub has long been a mainstay at 600 W Gray St. Though the bar has been in business since 1985, Cecil’s moved to its Montrose location in 1990.

Restaurant representatives explained in the post that landlords had sold the property and that the pub was unable to secure a lease with the new owners. In a call to Chron, owner Jonas Herd confirmed the pub is searching for a new location, but nothing is concrete yet.

Just down the street from Spec’s Liquors downtown location, Cecil’s was a perfect place to stop off for a night of tippling with a couple cases of beer in the trunk for after closing hours. Frequently visited by metalheads, it has been a landmark during the death metal years.

As the owner notes, it is being killed off by gentrification:

“It is still many of the same people, but no one can afford to live in this neighborhood anymore. Everyone lived within a few blocks. It was a wonderful neighborhood with bands and actors, skaters and artists,” she says. “When I first opened in 1985, this was a pretty rough area. Midtown was just the Fourth Ward.”

Cecils offers what drinkers need: a place to feel safe outside of the storm. For many years, it provided this to those who were off-mainstream in Houston and the surrounding areas. We look forward to visiting at its new location.

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30 thoughts on “Houston Metal Landmark Cecil’s Pub Changing Location”

  1. STGeezus says:

    Do you have a good local pub, Brett?
    Pubs with Extreme/DM aesthetics rule; I LOVE taking a piss and reading all the old shitty band stickers while I get a mad buzz on and forgot about my job for a couple of hours.
    Cheers!

    1. I did have quite a good one up within walking distance, but it closed because of an inspection.

  2. Fuck Brandon fick nick fuck Casey fuck Elsinore way fuck ragecore fuck rap metal fuck rap rock and all male jerks says:

    So

    What do you think of the Portuguese in Hawaiian culture huh?

    Are you going to say that is not a good mixture huh?

    And is Kamala Harris stupid butt going to be president huh?

    I wanna fuck the following bitches in the asshole hard baby

    Hallie Jackson
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    Beyonce
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    And why are blacks sooo loud and their genitals sooo big and are blacks wired for rape and evil incest type of behavior huh?

    And can Elon musk build a Godzilla sized transformers type thing ok?

    And will you leave America if Kamala wins ok?

    1. Bradley says:

      This is boring

    2. No, someone needs to get ahold of America before it does more evils.

      I don’t think any mixing is good because it destroys unique groups.

      Fairuza Balk is an underrated actress in The Craft, one of the best movies ever.

      I am told Mean Girls is good, and I think Legally Blonde is a great script.

  3. Philosophy is wankery says:

    Just remember guys, Bratt is a very important man, he basically God, who knows every nuance of every culture and subtlety of existential life. Always listen to him and you’ll be fine.

    Funny enough, I actually tried his method of thinking in practical application, and it ended in absolute failure. This guy is top tier troll if you let him be, but otherwise utter failure at life. You’re better off listening 5 year olds than him.

    1. Brett Should Retire says:

      How did you apply it in real life?

    2. Chrome says:

      The baghavad gita remarks of your fear, a fear that many share, of taking a man into you, in this passage:

      If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.

      1. Rectal apprentice says:

        OK, I’ve taken a man into my passage. Now what?

        1. The final cuntdown says:

          Now ur a fag

      2. Zen and the Art of Interracial Sodomy.

    3. Make America Gay Negro Again says:

      “I actually tried his method of thinking in practical application, and it ended in absolute failure.”

      What did you do, try to use metal theory (hah) to start a business?

    4. Bradley says:

      This is even more boring.

      1. Stanley says:

        You’ll get used to it. Every time metal falls into a rut, guys like this come out to tell us how totally deep they are and how shallow we are for believing in anything.

        1. This site is hated because we hold metal to higher standards, which makes it less of a blank canvas or lifestyle for mediocre people (hipsters, eggheads, blowhards, political) to project themselves all over.

        2. curio says:

          Every time metal falls into a rut….

          You mean the 30 year and counting rut that Brett’s been discussing for most of those 30 years?

          1. RIP Metal 1969-1994

    5. Mega Colon says:

      Yeah, all ideas are crap, the universe is shit, life is random, there’s no point to anything. But look, tendies.

      1. Is the universe random? Only as a method.

    6. Oh really, what happened? I think years of study and being good at something should count for something, don’t you?

    7. Arab Chinaman says:

      Wow that’s a cool story bro, how did you apply these philosophies to anything practical, they seem completely outer space ritual magick to me.

  4. Autistic heroin says:

    Metal is an “artform” for losers who want to overcompensate, while clinging relgiiously to empty elitism. When I crushed the sacred cows the other day, it was meant to be a troll, but I apparantly the oversight did its job – you people will never realize that you’re chasing after the wind.

    May the god of *nothingness* bless you always, as you stand before the altar of absolutely nothing upon fucking nothing.

    1. Well-Meaning Christian says:

      It seems like you have a lack of purpose in your life, which is why you are dedicating yourself to critiqueing others and perhaps, keeping a bedroom band that imitates a few moments you thought were cool on some of your favorite records. But when you do that, all of your successes are accidental, and the creations of others.

    2. Bradley says:

      Your critique was boring.

  5. Messiah of pigs says:

    Careful now, if I break Bratt’s tenets, I might shatter his pseudo-christian framework. Fucking pathetic. This guy is a maggot.

    1. Harold says:

      It sounds like your religion is resentment. I don’t like Islam, Christianity, or Jewdaism either at all but not all of them are stupid and wrong about every thing.

      1. Perhaps not, but their philosophical flaws are too much to support them, for me.

    2. You could always write me with your concerns.

  6. Fart not old enough says:

    Did anyone here buy the now-classics of death metal and black metal when they were new the years around 1990? What was that like? Was there a feeling of metal quality gaining momentum and then terrible disappointment once the quality petered out very quickly? (I only got into metal music after 1998 or so.)

    1. There was an underground for thrash (DRI) and crossover speed metal (Slayer) and death metal felt like it grew out of that, but it was a very niche genre in a time when there was an actual mainstream (both dominant culture and “no internet” were in play here). By 1992 metal felt like it was becoming a thing, but it was still invisible to 99% of normies. By 1998, you could find death metal in more record stores, which still existed then (broadband was rare).

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