Doomsday X is the sound of Malevolent Creation revisiting The Fine Art of Murder and Stillborn. It's obvious that the band is not on a mission to reinvent themselves all over again as the songs are pretty much cut after the same drafts used on the abovementioned albums. The patented Malevolent Creation sound is intact, but the magic is difficult to notice. Most of the characteristics are here and the band do know how to play it brutal, but most of the songs tend to primarily be fixed on mid-tempo sections many of which have a somewhat thrashy vibe to them.

There's not anything new in Malevolent Creation trying this, but it just feels less captivating this time. This is probably also why a lot of the songs have a tendency to stay rather anonymous. The versatility that made The Ten Commandments, Retribution and The Will to Kill so great is missing. The Americans do show signs of greatness in tracks like "Strength in Numbers", "Unleash Hell" and "Bio-Terror", but it never becomes convincing and Doomsday X ends up being just another run-of-the-mill death metal album.