Big Cheese is an English hardcore punk band from Leeds, West Yorkshire. They are a part of the New Wave of British Hardcore. In an article for Metal Hammer, Jimmy Wizard included their song "Rotter" in his "essential hardcore mixtape".
Big Cheese performing in 2022
Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom
Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the second wave of punk rock in the country. The scene produced many successful and influential hardcore punk bands throughout the 1980s such as Discharge, GBH and the Exploited and led to the pioneering of genres such as grindcore, street punk, crust punk and D-beat.
Birmingham's Napalm Death are one of the most successful bands to come for the UK's hardcore scene
Birmingham's GBH were at the forefront of the first wave of UK hardcore
Daventry band Antisect are one of the progenitors of crust punk
Liverpool's Carcass helped to pioneer grindcore in the mid-1980s