Left Hand Path is the debut studio album by Swedish death metal band Entombed, released on 4 June 1990 by Earache Records.

Guitarist Alex Hellid found the term in Anton LaVey's book The Satanic Bible,[7] but Nick Andersson (who was the "big boss" in the band) made the final decision that it would be the album's title.

The sound on Left Hand Path has been described as "monumental," combining the "extremity of Earache's stable of British grindcore" with the "elaborate songwriting structures" of the Florida death metal scene.

[12] Joe Matera of Decibel described the track “But Life Goes On” as an early example of "how death metal can indeed use rock structures and still be completely intense,"[13] and Chris Krovatin of Kerrang!

said "the band’s use of catchy melodies with a gross, gravelly guitar tone showed the world how excitingly sweet death metal could be.

According to Chris Krovatin of Kerrang, “While Left Hand Path uses much of the same subject matter as the records of its American counterparts, [...] it moved away from the bloody mess of most of the era’s death metal, instead favoring a sense of grim decay.”[15] The album has been noted for defining the style of Swedish death metal by being the earliest known album to feature the heavily distorted, "down-tuned, saw-like guitar sound", also known as the "Sunlight sound", which would later become a staple for the regional scene thereafter.

[...] Most importantly, the Swedish sluggers’ stellar debut showed the Yanks didn’t have the monopoly on white-hot death metal.

[30] Two songs from the album were covered by Belgian death metal band Aborted: "Drowned" for the re-release of The Archaic Abattoir and "Left Hand Path" for the EP Coronary Reconstruction.