Lexicon Devil: Germs тобының эпохалық EP-сі

Lexicon Devil is a three song EP and the second release by American punk rock band the Germs. It was also the debut output of Slash Records, and of Geza X both as a producer and as a recording engineer. The record was named after its leadoff song.

In the Germs, a man whose birth name was Paul Beahm served as singer and one of the principal songwriters. During the time of the Germs, Paul actually went by other names he made up for himself. At the time of the band's debut single, he called himself Bobby Pyn. Bobby Pyn's persona on the single was the rather innocent "Sex Boy". On "Lexicon Devil," he reinvented his on record persona as the much darker Darby Crash, who sings his fascistic mission statement in the self mythologizing "Circle One",

The EP's title track is an apocalyptic manifesto full of fractured images, whose lyrics were written by Crash in the first person in the name of Adolf Hitler, who proclaims himself a "lexicon devil" in the song, which is featured here in its slower and tamer first version. hence, while it is more musically developed than "Forming", the band's previous record,

The Germs were gaining notoriety since the release of their first single, "Forming", and their early live performances. The band's increasing success also presented some roadblocks. They did not have a permanent drummer at the time. After Donna Rhia left, the band had a succession of aspiring drummers and part timers taken on loan from other bands, while the back cover, in ideological contrast, reproduces an anti fascist political cartoon by Arthur Szyk from 1942 which portrays Hermann Göring, the Grim Reaper, Benito Mussolini, and Hirohito, who are humorously featured as alter egos of Crash, Lorna Doom, (the) Drummer (Nicky Beat at the time), and Pat Smear, respectively. The EP's artwork was printed in black ink on red, deep pink, golden and yellow paper record sleeves.

In 2013, "Lexicon Devil" was included in the video game Grand Theft Auto V, for its reproduction through the in game radio station Channel X. Similarly, the sped up version of the song was featured on the soundtrack for the 2004 video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.