Sam Rivers, bassist and founding member of Limp Bizkit, dies aged 48

Sam Rivers, bassist for rock band Limp Bizkit, has died. He was 48 years previous.

Rivers’ loss of life was confirmed by the band, who wrote on-line on Saturday: “at present we misplaced our brother”.

“Sam Rivers wasn’t simply our bass participant — he was pure magic. The heartbeat beneath each track, the calm within the chaos, the soul within the sound,” Limp Bizkit stated in a social media put up Saturday. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime type of human. A real legend of legends. And his spirit will reside eternally in each groove, each stage, each reminiscence.”

The band didn’t share any particulars about his loss of life.

Rivers’ final put up on social media was on Friday, wherein he shared a “Save The Date” video for Limp Bizkit performing on the Rock for Folks competition in Hradec Králové, a metropolis within the Czech Republic, in June 2026. Rivers and his bandmates final carried out in August on the Leeds Pageant in the UK.

In 2015, Rivers left the band after affected by liver illness however rejoined the group in 2018.

“I obtained liver illness from extreme consuming … I needed to go away Limp Bizkit in 2015 as a result of I felt so horrible, and some months after that I spotted I needed to change all the things as a result of I had actually dangerous liver illness,” Rivers stated throughout an interview with Selection. “I stop consuming and did all the things the docs advised me. I obtained remedy for the alcohol and obtained a liver transplant, which was an ideal match.”

The nu-metal band skyrocketed in reputation within the ’90s, being nominated for 3 Grammys. Their hits, together with “Rollin'” and “Nookie,” additionally landed on the Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart.

Fred Durst, fellow bandmate and frontman for Limp Bizkit, remembered the primary time he heard Rivers play at a Jacksonville, Florida bar whereas trying to find bandmates to kind the group. Rivers was enjoying in a band on the bar and Durst stated he was “killing it on the bass.”

“I noticed Sam play and I used to be blown away,” Durst recalled in a video posted on social media Sunday morning. “He is enjoying a five-string bass too. I might by no means actually seen somebody utilizing a five-string bass… he was so easy and good and he stood out. I might hear nothing else however Sam… all the things disappeared in addition to his present.”

When he approached Rivers after his efficiency and advised him that he needed to kind a band, Durst stated the bassist did not hesitate.

“He checked out me and he says ,’Killer. I am in. Let’s do it’,” Durst recalled. “I’ve gone by way of gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and… I am pondering, ‘My God, Sam’s a legend….he did it. He lived it.'”

Limp Bizkit’s new single, “Making Like to Morgan Wallen,” topped a number of Billboard charts in September.