Phazm have announced that they are back, ten years after Scornful of Icons, and have promised more information later.
That is the whole announcement, but the line up around it has already moved. Pierrick Valence, who has sung and played guitar in this band since 2003, is back with drummer Gorgor, and Metal Archives lists two names joining this year: Antoine Duffour on bass and Alexis Baudin on guitar. The band have gone quiet and come back twice before, in 2012 and in 2014, so the 2026 line is the fourth time they have started again.
What they play is death metal that turned into death and roll somewhere between the first album and the second, which in their case means the riffs swing more than they blast and the subject matter stays where it was. Osmose Productions have carried them from the beginning.
Four albums exist: Hate at First Seed in 2004, Antebellum Death 'n Roll in 2006, Cornerstone of the Macabre in 2008 and Scornful of Icons in 2016. The last thing they released was a single called The Arsonist in 2017.
No album, no date, no label statement yet.