Spectre

An appropriately shadowy entity with several albums for WordSound and production spots for Prince Paul and Techno Animal, Spectre is the Nosferatu of underground horrorcore, channeling the more isolated tones of industrial-dub and illbient into hip-hop productions of an intensely paranoid nature. Inspired by the rich legacy of horror films and dark industrial pioneers like Skinny Puppy as well as the old school of hip-hop, the rapper/producer debuted by hosting The Ill Saint Presents Subterranean Hitz, a seminal illbient compilation released on WordSound in 1996.

Spectre's first album, The Illness, dropped later that year (sample track title: "Spectre Meets the Psycho Priest in the Temple of Smoke"), also on WordSound. Between LPs he kept quite busy, making appearances on Prince Paul's Psychoanalysis LP, the second volume in Virgin's Macro Dub Infection series, Techno Animal's remix album Vs. Reality, and Unitone Hi-Fi's Rewound & Rerubbed. Spectre also released RuffKutz, a 90-minute mix tape spotlighting his new label, Black Hoodz, with tracks by Dr. Israel, Sensational, Mr. Dead, and the Jungle Brothers. Sophomore LP The Second Coming was released in late 1998; The End followed in early 2000.

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Spectre or specter usually refers to a ghost or other apparition. It may also refer to an optical illusion called a brocken spectre.

It may also refer to:

People

Arlen Specter, a Senator in the United States CongressMichael Specter, American journalistSpectre (musician), alias of producer and rapper Skiz FernandoThe Spectre (artist), a British rapperAkhenaton (rapper), a French hip hop artist who uses Spectre as one of his aliasesSpectre (political party), in the United Kingdom

Fiction

SPECTRE, an evil organization from James Bond novels and filmsSpectre (film), a 1977 made-for-television movie produced and written by Gene RoddenberrySpecter (film), a Japanese tokusatsu film released in 2005Spectre (His Dark Materials), malevolent beings in the Philip Pullman novel trilogy His Dark MaterialsSpectre (comics), a DC Comics characterSilk Spectre, a DC Comics characterSpectre, a character from Archie ComicsSpectreman, a tokusatsu TV series of 1970sSpectres (film), a 2004 filmSpecters (film), an Italian horror movie released in 1987 starring Donald Pleasence

Music

Spectre, a song by Christian DeathSpectres (album), the 1977 album by Blue Öyster Cult

Video games

Partially invisible counterpart of Pinky monster in Doom gamesSpectre (video game), a 1991 video game developed by Velocity for the Macintosh computerSpectre (Apple II video game), a 1982 game for the Apple II published by DatamostSpectre (Special actics and Reconnaissance), an elite law enforcement unit in the video game series Mass EffectSpecter (Ape Escape), a villain in the video game series Ape EscapeMercurial - The Spectre is a hero from Warcraft III popular custom map DotA AllstarsA Necropolis unit in the Heroes of Might and Magic seriesSpectre is a character/vehicle in the first and second installments of the Twisted Metal game seriesSpecter, a character in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs seriesSpectre team is a covert ops military unit working for SRPA in the PlayStation 3 game Resistance 2 and is the center of the co-op story line for the gameSpectre is the callsign of the player character in the game Mechwarrior 4: MercenariesProfessor Layton and the Last Specter - a puzzle adventure game that serves as a prequel to the entire seriesSpectre, a cloaking sniper unit in Starcraft IIspectre is an vehicle from Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath

Military hardware

Spectre M4, an Italian submachine gunAC-130H Spectre, an American warplaneDe Havilland Spectre hydrogen peroxide rocket engineF-110A Spectre, a briefly used US Air Force designation for the Navy-developed F-4 Phantom II

Software

Spectre Circuit Simulator, a SPICE-class circuit simulator for analog integrated circuits

Automotive

Spectre R42, a 2-seater mid-engined rear-wheel drive sportscar built by British speciality car manufacturer Spectre Supersport Ltd.