Criminal Damage type 2

The typeface below is partly influenced by Metallica, with the two enlarged letterforms at each end, and partly by Megadeth for the sharp serifs.

When I initially drew it, I mis-judged the sizing so I had to add an exclamation mark at the end of 'damage' to fill the space - once I vectorised it, I could remove it thankfully.


At the moment I haven't added the final outline around the text, but I wanted to experiment with it at this stage to see which of the two would work better.

If I choose to pursue this style of type I firstly need to address the D - it doesn't work with the other letterforms and looks too small.

The Megadeth type looks kind of 3D/metal (for some reason it won't let me upload an image of it). Taking this into acount I tried a similar effect on my type - it looks a lot more crisp that the image of the Megadeth one that I have. I'm not sure if thats a good thing because it brings it up to date, or a bad thing because it doesn't look vintage.
In contrast to the metallic/3D one, I use a similar effect to the vintage looking Iron Maiden inspired type. I think with a few alterations (the D in particular), the red one could work really well.