Gee, heavy atmosphere here.
Myself's own opinion though, I'm more personally attached to having the sort of approach where "Bane" and "emons" pretty much trade places (With the exception of that space there). That appeals to me more. Though once I do see the "D", and if I see it first, my eye does follow the trail to make "Demons", and then out comes "Bane"...
I really like the icy effects of it that make it seem a little ethereal.
But enough with this logo stuff (I know winkio, you told everyone to stop, but I wanted to give at least some of my input too xP).
And I'll actually comment on the mapping part of it all. Is the map animated? Does it pan the screen or something? o: I'll have to say that it looks pretty nice.
Let's try going in-depth for a bit...
That top-left area looks funky. o_O Is it supposed to be a small protruding lip of the cliff or something? The sudden cliff tile (The lack of a ground-cliff tile rather) was something that threw me off. Maybe a middle ground-cliff tile can help smooth that out?
That's all I can see for now. xD