Six Ugly is an EP

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 released by Dir En Grey

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Dir En Grey is a Japanese metal band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2011, they have recorded eight full-length records...

 on July 31, 2002. Its packaging features several references to American popular culture

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, such as the Universal Monsters

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 and the band's name being written in the Coca-Cola

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 font, along with the EP's sound being more akin to contemporary western heavy metal

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 than the band's previous releases. The first press limited release came housed in a paper digipack case along with a secret lyrics booklet hidden within the inside flap. The songs "Byou Shin" and "Children" are re-recordings of tracks from the Missa

MISSA

Missa is an EP by Dir En Grey. It was released on July 25, 1997 and marks the band's debut. The song "Byou 「」 Shin" was later re-recorded for the 2002 EP, Six Ugly.-Track listing:...

EP and the "Taiyou no Ao

TAIYOU NO AO

is a single released by Dir En Grey on July 26, 2000. The B-side "Children" would later be re-recorded for the EP Six Ugly.-Track listing:...

" single respectively.

Track listing