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When The Shop Moved locations & Why

Salt Lake Tribune - June 10th 2023

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After 22 years, Utah’s iconic Heavy Metal Shop will move from its downtown Salt Lake City location.

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Kevin Kirk Remembers Angie Kirk and Her Legacy at The Heavy Metal Shop and Beyond

Slug Mag- March 15th, 2022

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On the afternoon of March 5, a pillar of SLC’s local music scene, The Heavy Metal Shop, suddenly lost co-owner Angie Kirk to leukemia. The shop, owned by Angie and Kevin Kirk, opened its doors in 1987 and has been “peddlin’ evil” ever since. Kevin and Angie’s 40-year relationship comprises 35 years together at The Heavy Metal Shop, a time during which Angie left her legacy on the local metal community and beyond. “[She was] the most compassionate and kind person that I have ever known,” says Kevin, “the most beautiful woman inside and out.” 

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Heavy Metal Shop’s 35th anniversary party is a bittersweet celebration

Salt Lake Tribune - July 18, 2022

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Patrons and friends visit to honor owner Kevin Kirk, the “godfather” of the city’s music community.

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Heavy Metal Shop: 30 years of peddlin’ evil

Salt Lake Magazine - October 19, 2017

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In 1987 Kevin Kirk saw a need in the Salt Lake music scene, so he shuttered his record store in Sandy and opened a new one on State Street—this time with a name that told potential customers all they needed to know: The Heavy Metal Shop. “Salt Lake has always been a big metal town,” Kirk says. “Salt Lake needed something like this.”

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The Heavy Metal Shop: A Salt Lake City Legend

Daily Utah Chronicle - November 16, 2015

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A local Salt Lake City music store that sells exclusively heavy-metal and hard rock music? Sounds like a recipe for financial disaster. But that hasn’t stopped Kevin Kirk, the sole owner of The Heavy Metal Shop (THMS), which has been “Peddlin’ Evil Since 1987,” according to the store’s slogan.

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Interview: Kevin Kirk of The Heavy Metal Shop

KUER - May 29, 2014

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Weathering the shaky test of time that the music industry has seen over the past two decades, The Heavy Metal Shop (63 Exchange Place, Salt Lake City) has stood strong—one might say with one big “maloik” (also called “sign of the horns”) held high. Owner Kevin Kirk has spent the past 27 years in Rock & Retail and has seen it all—from fanatical anti-metal people coming into his shop to legends like Alice Cooper sporting the iconic shop logo. Kirk talks with KUER Music's Austen Diamond about life in metal and retail in Salt Lake City:

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Two Decades of Peddlin’ Evil: A History of The Heavy Metal Shop

Slug Mag - September 7, 2007

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“I imagine there will be somebody that will want to take it over,” said Kevin Kirk, owner of the Heavy Metal Shop. “I never really put that much thought into it: it is really cool I’m still doing it. I’m getting pretty old now; I’m 45—look at Mick Jagger, though. I’ll do it until I can’t. Why not?”

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