Editing Germs (band) (section)

===''What We Do Is Secret'', reformations and Doom's death (2005–present)===
[[File:The Germs at Sala Boite Madrid 12-18-09.jpg|thumb|The Germs performing in 2009.]]
A film about the Germs, ''[[What We Do Is Secret (film)|What We Do Is Secret]]'', was in production for several years, and premiered June 23, 2007, at the Los Angeles Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=What We Do Is Secret|url=http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=5036&|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725060857/http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=5036&|archive-date=July 25, 2009|publisher=[[Los Angeles Film Festival]]}}</ref> The film was theatrically released on August 8, 2008, and starred Shane West in the role of Darby Crash.

Smear, Doom, and Bolles reactivated the Germs with West as singer. They played on the 2006 Warped Tour and toured clubs in the US later that summer, and again in 2007. They once again played on the 2008 edition of the Warped Tour, on the Vans Old School Stage. Some members of the punk rock community such as [[Fat Mike]] and [[Jello Biafra]] were critical of the band's decision to perform with West.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Germs Bassist Lorna Doom on Movie About Her Band: "It's a Good Crazy"|url=http://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2008/09/12/germs-bassist-lorna-doom-on-movie-about-her-band-its-a-good-crazy|publisher=[[The Riverfront Times]]|date=September 12, 2008|access-date=July 4, 2016|archive-date=August 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814051749/http://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2008/09/12/germs-bassist-lorna-doom-on-movie-about-her-band-its-a-good-crazy|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In a July 2009 article, Bolles spoke about the band's plans to re-record old material for a planned box set titled ''Lest We Forget: The Sounds of the Germs''.<ref name="riotfest">{{cite news |last=Molloy |first=Bill |title=The Germs |url=http://riotfest.org/features/germs/ |newspaper=[[Riot Fest]] |date=July 15, 2009 |agency=Circle Two |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719084730/http://riotfest.org/features/germs/ |archive-date=2009-07-19 }}</ref> The band rearranged songs from the ''Germicide'' live album and the ''Cruising'' sessions; they planned to record several Darby Crash Band songs as well. Live recordings, both old and new, would have made up the rest of the box set, which Bolles hoped to release in 2010.<ref name="riotfest"/> The newly recorded songs were to be released on [[The Smashing Pumpkins|Smashing Pumpkins]] frontman [[Billy Corgan]]'s new, unnamed record label. Two songs, "Out of Time" and "Beyond Hurt – Beyond Help", were originally written by Crash and Smear prior to Crash's death, but were never recorded. The songs were to be recorded with West providing vocals.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jason |last=MacNeil |url=http://www.chartattack.com/news/2010/01/07/billy-corgans-label-releasing-new-germs-strawberry-alarm-clock-material |title=Billy Corgan's Label Releasing New Germs, Strawberry Alarm Clock Material |publisher=CHARTattack |date=January 7, 2010 |access-date=2012-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424135743/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2010/01/07/billy-corgans-label-releasing-new-germs-strawberry-alarm-clock-material/ |archive-date=2016-04-24 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> West left the Germs in 2009.

In December 2013, [[Charlotte Caffey]] of the Go-Go's played bass for a one-off gig, a memorial for Bill "Pat Fear" Bartell, when Doom could not be located.

On January 16, 2019, Doom died of breast cancer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lorna Doom, bassist with cult Los Angeles punk band Germs, dies|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/17/lorna-doom-germs|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=January 17, 2019|access-date=January 17, 2019}}</ref>