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The Goblin Ball Competition

2/12/2015

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Our Tarot Card Printers were unable to provide us with the special Tarot Cards this coming year, but not to discourage us from celebrating local talent we have decided to continue with our exciting competition and create a Book of Shadows for sale at the next Goblin Ball!

All previous entries are already included!!

The term Book of Shadows is more often used to describe a personal journal. This journal records rituals, spells, and their results, as well as other magical information. Additionally you could use it to record your adventures at The Goblin Ball or print out photos to record your journeys, and keep all those trinkets you collect on your journeys within the pages of this magical tome.

Would you like to win a double pass to The Goblin Ball 2015 and two copies of the Book of Shadows featuring your own design, presented in a beautiful magical book bag? 

Total Prize value $300

Dark Realm Events is looking for the next Goblin Artist to help design the front art of the official Goblin Ball Book Of Shadows. These magical journals will be pre-ordered at events hosted by Dark Realm. Dark realm is a company that prides itself on creating evenings of mythological and mystical immersion and this is your chance to become part of the magic.

The Goblin Ball Book of Shadows Competition is open to all fantasy artists and enthusiasts alike. See the below guidelines to enter.

Submit your designs after reading the details below to AskUs@TheGoblinBall.com

The Competition


  1. We need you to design the front of our Book Of Shadows. Be creative and be imaginative. 
  2. All design submissions will be posted to The Goblin Blog and the Goblin Ball Facebook page every week.
  3. Round one closes Feb 28th
  4. Finalists will be announced March 9th and and 3 finalists will be posted to the Goblin Ball Facebook page and voting will begin by The Goblin public.
  5. The winner will be announced March 22nd.
  6. Keep in mind, we will monitor the competition for fair play and any swindling or skullduggery may disqualify you. 
  7. Dark Realm’s choice of winner is final.

The Design

  1. We are looking for a design that incorporates the four elemental kingdoms of The Goblin Ball 2013 - 2016. This includes The Ice Kingdom, Ember Rule, Terra Bayou and Starlantis.
  2. Full color entries only please however work in progress or detailed sketches are accepted. Completed artwork will need to be submitted for final judging.
  3. Information of the four realms can be found here.
  4. Artists designs can be in the format of illustration, painting, portraiture or photography. Any visual art medium is acceptable. Get creative!
  5. The design should leave space for The Goblin Ball logo to be added. See below for the placeholder logo. Feel free to add it into your design.
  6. High resolution files only as all details of the artwork will appear on the front of the journal
  7. Your artwork should be able to be resized to fit the size of 15 x 23 cm
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The Logo to use

Winners and Terms of Use

  1. Dark Realm intends to promote the final design chosen. That means we may use the design to promote The Goblin Ball and it’s associated events however you retain the rights of the original artwork and may use it as you wish without The Goblin Ball attribution or logo.
  2. The design contract will allow Dark Realm Events to use the winning entry to sell the book of shadows or postcards with the artwork featured to raise funds for future events.
  3. The winning designer may use the artwork as they please however the Goblin Ball logos and reference to Dark Realm Events must be omitted.
  4. The winning artwork or any entries may be used by the artist in their portfolio or job applications. A letter thanking those for submission will be issued to all entering Artists on request.
  5. A Design Transfer Agreement will be signed by both parties to ensure transfer of the design is completed and Dark Realm may begin to produce the Book of Shadows for sale in a timely manner.
  6. Use on additional products such as mugs or t-shirts will be negotiated between the artist and Dark Realm events. An additional contract and agreement would be drawn up to cover further use if both parties find it beneficial.

Send any further questions to AskUs@TheGoblinBall.com and we will do our best to answer them in 24-48 hours.
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The Witches Song: Kore advance copies

2/5/2015

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Carisa Bianca Mellado. Mysterious musician and sometimes terrifying vocally, Carisa spans the styles akin to 80s goth rock to the melodic stylings of black opera. Exploring stories that call to the unexpressed desires of fantasy creatures and sometimes the desires of our own that we dare not utter out loud, the Journey of each album is not without reward.

Carisa is offering fans of The Goblin Ball her pre release album at an advance price of $7 USD! Proceeds from the prerelease sale go toward funding her UK performance and the album is available for download NOW!

Interview after the jump and Video for Human Things at the bottom
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I first met Carisa in St Kilda back in 2005 At the Blue Angel Centre for well being where I was soon to commence a year long stint as the resident Tarot reader. Little did I know we would soon embark on an otherworldly journey of artistic expression and tormented buildings. Through our years of Friendship Carissa and I spent our time exploring Melbourne’s haunted houses and numerous live performances of her then band The Time of The Assassins. After Carisa relocated to Los Angeles (and I to Vancouver) our friendship continues over brief coffees between connecting flights at LAX and lunch on Hollywood Boulevard.

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From authoring Ask An Angel Oracle cards by Toni Carmine Salerno to her two solo albums that explore extremely different subject matters, Carisa creates a conduit for her characters to explore and engage with the listener. I took some time to catch up with Carisa and explore where her life journey was taking her.

Let’s start with your album The New Queen. I am in love with this album and it’s intensity. I played it every Halloween in Vancouver. The first track War lulls you into a false sense of fairytale and then you are stabbed in the head with the following track The New Queen. What inspired you to compose such an epic tale of violence and betrayal?

I became really fascinated with pre-rennaisance sound. As a singer it was amazing to me that instruments other than the voice were considered evil by the church and the styles of songwriting were so bizarre and dissonant. It was fascinating to me to have to go to a primal listening space within to uncover what was there in the beginning. It was really fascinating to me that when the black death plague came and wiped out so much of Europe, people began to question the nature of life, death and science more and as this awakening happened our ears changed. Before that awakening there was just a strange, mystery, darkness. 

The world, life and death was all faith and mystery. I was really inspired by a film called Queen Margot and the film became a source of inspiration. Both the characters of Catherine De Medici and Margot were fascinating. Catherine as a woman who had become insane out of fear of losing power and safety and guided her son to instigate one of the worst massacres of all time; the massacre of St Bartholomew's Day. 

Margot, who was sexually shared by her brothers and a victim and developed sexual cravings as a result, going down into the streets and sleeping with strangers. The theme was madness that came in searching for meaning, that desperation. 

Over the span of the album it all breaks down and what is left is to give up the fight and surrender to a higher source. I was extremely interested in understanding the shadow aspects of sexuality. I think in a fundamental way the album is also the expression of rage at the feelings of rejection. There is a pleasurable side of female sexuality that involves becoming objectified and becoming the prey. 

There is shame in talking about that and it is a definite shadow aspect but it's there. I think when this aspect is out of balance in either direction it can turn into a form of madness, deprivation, rejection and desperation. She's searching for meaning, connection and ultimately love.

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Your new album Kore is similar in tone to begin with however we are taken in another direction. The track Human Things reminds me of when I used to stay up late as a child of the 80s and listen to the goth playing radio stations without my parents knowing. How did you manage to capture that etherial feeling?


Kore was a really different project for me. The word means 'maiden' and that's basically what it is about. I was a kid in the 80's and the 80's influenced me a lot. I love pop music. Pop influenced me and I wanted an album that was closer to the albums I grew up listening to. I love jazz and eastern music and I think there's an influence of that style in there that might add to it's ethereal nature. 


I was really in the space of a pretty honest and open energy when I wrote these songs. It starts with Birth, a heartbeat and goes on the journey of awakening, falling in love, the nature of desire, losing the self, going into the underworld, finding the self again, rebirth, ascension to a higher state of consciousness and love. Into The Barbwire Dream Again, The Twice Born and Dawn were actually written when I was a teenager. It was really special for me to do versions of them now.

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The New Queen explores a Royal line of a family in the year 1608. Kore explores the story of a Sirian Dolphin Princess who goes through the underworld transition to a human girl. How do you find inspiration for such multidimensional characters and mythos?


The truth is, I kind of do believe I am an incarnated Sirian Dolphin Princess (laughs). I have had this story in my mind since I was a teenager and I had been trying to understand my weird crippling phobia of dolphins and whales. There are stories out there about how dolphins and whales come from Sirius and how people incarnated from the higher dimensional fields of Sirius into Earth. It always felt like a very accurate story for me and in my mind I always got a clear picture and understanding of everything to do with Sirius. 


Whether it's literally true or mythically true doesn't matter to me because the result is the same. I have the sense that me and every other human has incarnated from a higher space where we were full shining embodiments of ourselves and we are born here to learn and ultimately share that light with others. I think a lot of wisdom can be found in mythology. Joseph Campbell is my biggest hero and I recommend his work on mythology to everyone. My personal mythology is informed a lot by paying attention to colours and styles that are standing out to me at a certain time. It always starts with a mood and is fleshed out from there.

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Your next journey is to the UK to perform your new album live. This is such an amazing opportunity. From Pony in Melbourne, to LA and now to the UK your life seems to be a forever path forward. What do you hope to experience in the UK? 


I'm excited to play and record with some incredible musicians over there, most notably Nick Hudson, who I've been a fan of for many years. I'm looking forward to working with really incredible classical musicians and collaborating and recording with Nick Hudson.

Kore is available at the advance price of $7 USD! Proceeds from the prerelease sale go toward funding the UK performance Kore is available for download NOW! Tracks from Kore may be played in The Goblin Marketplace and we can't wait for you to experience the magic on the night!

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