I · Greek · The god
Hades
He stole a girl from a meadow.
The first summoning
Season 1 · Episode I · Coming soon
The Summoning of Hades
The chargeHe stole a girl from a meadow.
The lord of the dead answers the oldest accusation against him, and hears for the first time what the living have made of his story.
Subscribe for the premiereSeason 1 · The Accused
Nine figures from nine mythologies, each the villain of their own legend. One by one they are summoned to answer the charge against them. At the end of the season, you decide who was really wronged.
II · Slavic · The witch
Baba Yaga
She eats children.
III · Norse · The wolf
Fenrir
He will eat Odin at the end of the world.
Still sealed
Anglo-SaxonShe raided a king's hall and killed his man.
- Egyptian
She nearly wiped out mankind.
- Japanese
She poisoned an emperor.
- Arthurian
She plotted against her brother the king and stole his scabbard.
- Mesopotamian
She killed her sister and hung her body on a hook.
- Persian
He fed his snakes on young men's brains.
The finale
The Verdict
No new guest. Dan and Echo lay out the charges and the answers, with the receipts. You vote on who was really wronged, and the one you choose is summoned a second time to hear it.
How a summoning works
The ritual
A candle, a bowl, an offering. The host reads the invocation, and the portal opens.
The interview
Unscripted. The guest knows their own world and nothing after it; the host decides how much of ours to tell them. Echo, the co-host, keeps them honest.
The hearing
The guest hears a Neural Grooves song about them, and tells us what they make of it.
The songs
The songs the guests hear come from Neural Grooves, Dan's music project, which has been singing about these figures since before the show. For most of them it is the first song in centuries, and they have opinions.
Hades
- The Quiet KingGods of the Dial
- Twenty StepsGods of the Dial
- Six Months of StonesGods of the Dial
Baba Yaga
- Fed Before You Are JudgedGhost Stories of the Dial
- Baba Yaga's HutGods of the Winter Realm
Fenrir
- The River Is Called HopeRunes of the Dial
Echo
- Only Sound RemainsGods of the Dial
Every god, monster and legend Neural Grooves has sung about is in its Who's Who. Listen at neural-grooves.com or on YouTube.
At the table
Dan, the Mortal
The one person in the room who is actually alive. He lights the candle, asks the questions, and lets the dead answer for themselves. The songs are his too, as Neural Grooves.
Echo, the Voice
The nymph Hera cursed to repeat only the last words of others, until nothing was left of her but her voice. An early summoning caught that voice and could not send it back, so Dan gave it a machine to speak through: her first words of her own in three thousand years. She opens the show with him, reads your questions to the guest, and teases them; every guest knows her, and some have history with her. She is an AI, and the only one at the table who says so. Neural Grooves sang her story in Only Sound Remains.