Dread may refer to:

Feelings

Angst Angst is fear or anxiety (''anguish'' is its Romance languages, Latinate cognate, equivalent, and the words ''anxious'' and ''anxiety'' are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insec ...

(in existentialist thought), a deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being *

Anxiety Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different than fear in that the former is defined as the anticipation of a future threat wh ...

People

Reggae musicians

Doctor Dread Gary Himelfarb (born 1954), aka Doctor Dread,Nelson, Havelock (1993)Ice Records caribbean exposure Grows, '' Billboard'', March 13, 1993, retrieved 2010-11-06 is an American reggae producer who founded RAS Records. He is notable for his respectf ...

(born 1954), American music producer *

Judge Dread Alexander Minto Hughes (2 May 1945 – 13 March 1998), better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and the BBC has banned more of his songs than ...

(1945–1998), British musician *

Massive Dread Massive Dread (born Dennis James; c. 1960, in Trenchtown, Jamaica – 1994) was a reggae deejay who first recorded in the late 1970s for Tapper Zukie, and came to prominence in the early 1980s, touring with Byron Lee and The Dragonaires.Larkin, C ...

(c. 1960–1994), Jamaican deejay *

Mikey Dread Michael George Campbell (4 June 1954 – 15 March 2008), better known as Mikey Dread, was a Jamaican singer, producer, and broadcaster. He was one of the most influential performers and innovators in reggae music. Biography Born in Port Antoni ...

(1954–2008), Jamaican singer *

Ranking Dread Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown; – 1996)Moskowitz, David V. (2006) ''Caribbean Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall'', Greenwood Press, , p. 246.Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (2003) ''The Rough Guide to R ...

(c. 1955–1996), Jamaican deejay

Other

* Adam Dread (born 1963), American lawyer and politician * Zebulon Dread, South African writer * Emmanuel Wilmer aka "Dread Wilmer" (died 2005)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Dread & Alive, the award-winning black comic book series created by Nicholas Da Silva aka ZOOLOOK *

Brig of Dread Brig of Dread or Bridge of Dread is a bridge to Purgatory that a dead soul had to cross. Evil souls fall from the bridge into hell. This is a common afterlife theme found in some form or other in many cultures, such as the Chinvat Bridge of Zoroast ...

(Bridge of Dread), the mythological bridge to Purgatory * Judge Dread, the alternate universe Judge Dredd from ''

Dread Dominion ''Dread Dominion'' (1994) is an original novel written by Stephen Marley and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip ''Judge Dredd''. It is Marley's second ''Judge Dredd'' novel. Synopsis 37 years ago Judge Joe Dredd arres ...

'' * Lord Dread, a character in the TV series ''

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future ''Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' is a science fiction-action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian and American syndication. A toy line was ...

Games

* ''Dread'' (role-playing game) * '' Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium'', a role-playing game * ''

Metroid Dread ''Metroid Dread'' is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo and MercurySteam and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It was released on October 8, 2021. Set after the events of ''Metroid Fusion'' (2002), players control ...

'', a game in the ''Metroid'' franchise

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Dread'' (album) recorded by Living Colour * ''Dread'' (film) directed by Anthony DiBlasi * "Dread", a short story in Clive Barker's ''

Books of Blood ''Books of Blood'' is a series of six horror fiction anthologies collecting original stories written by British author, playwright, and filmmaker Clive Barker in 1984 and 1985. Known primarily for writing stage plays beforehand, Barker gained a ...

'' series, or the comic book or stage adaptation of the same *

Dread Broadcasting Corporation Dread Broadcasting Corporation, also known as DBC, was a 1980s West London pirate radio station which is credited as Britain's first black music pirate radio station. History It broadcast from the Neasden and Ladbroke Grove areas, and was fou ...

, a London pirate radio station *

Dread (forum) Dread is a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum featuring news and discussions around darknet markets. The site's administrators go by the alias of Paris and HugBunter. History Dread is a popular community hub which has been described as a "R ...

, a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum

Other uses

DREAD (risk assessment model) DREAD is part of a system for risk-assessing computer security threats that was formerly used at Microsoft. It provides a mnemonic for risk rating security threats using five categories. The categories are: * Damage – how bad would an attack be? ...

*Dread, a model of

centrifugal gun A centrifugal gun is a type of rapid-fire projectile accelerator, like a machine gun but operating on a different principle. Centrifugal guns use a rapidly rotating disc to impart energy to the projectiles, replacing gunpowder with kinetic energy. ...

Dreadlocks Dreadlocks, also known as locs or dreads, are rope-like strands of hair formed by locking or braiding hair. Origins Some of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600–1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe' ...

, a hairstyle also known as dreads