Bombstrap have released their debut album Big Enemy, a caustic introduction to a band built around confrontation, volume and a deep distrust of the world around them.

Formed in 2025 within Rotterdam’s anarchist Poortgebouw community, the four-piece now operates between Rotterdam and Manchester. Their sound draws from the harsher edges of hardcore and noise rock, with No Trend and Total Abuse serving as useful reference points for music that favors abrasion over polish.

That philosophy drives Big Enemy, released October 2 through Tartarus Records. Available on vinyl, cassette and digital platforms, the album captures the group’s combination of nihilism, anarchic conviction and raw hardcore aggression.

The record follows a rapid first year for Bombstrap. After releasing a live recording captured at only their second show, the band quickly moved deeper into the European underground, developing a reputation for chaotic and confrontational performances.

Big Enemy takes that same physical energy into the studio. Rather than sanding down their attack for a debut full-length, Bombstrap lean further into it, treating hardcore as an outlet for anger toward authority, conformity and a society they see as fundamentally corrupted.

There is little interest here in making those ideas comfortable. Bombstrap’s approach is deliberately hostile and stripped of unnecessary decoration, turning the album into a concentrated expression of the worldview that has surrounded the group since its beginnings at Poortgebouw.

For a band barely a year into its existence, Big Enemy arrives with its identity already firmly in place. Bombstrap are loud, abrasive and deeply rooted in the DIY underground, and their debut makes no attempt to soften that introduction.