Career
Kim Nielsen first picked up the bass guitar at the age of 12. In the years to come, she played with local bands in Los Angeles, California, while taking lessons from Racer X bassist John Alderete. In 1988, following a recommendation by Alderete, Nielsen joined the all-female heavy metal band.
The band with Nielsen on bass recorded two albums and toured successfully in Europe.
In 1996, she joined the Nottingham-based metal band Wraith and recorded their Schizophrenia album. After years of living in England, she returned to Los Angeles in 2000, where she had brief stints with the all-female Air Corps/District of Columbia tribute band ThundHerStruck and a Queensrÿche tribute called Jet City Woman.
In 2004, she collaborated with the supergroup Asia as a guest bassist on their album Silent Nation. Nielsen-Parsons joined former members Linda McDonald, Gigi Hangach and Tina Wood for a reunion at a benefit concert on May 26, 2009 at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California.
Nielsen-Parsons cites Geezer Butler, Pete Way, Steve Harris and Eddie Jackson among her musical influences.
