{"id":131241,"date":"2025-10-19T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131241\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:24:09","slug":"sam-rivers-limp-bizkit-bassist-dead-at-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131241\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rivers, Limp Bizkit Bassist, Dead at 48"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSam Rivers<\/a>, the founding bassist for Limp Bizkit<\/a>, died on Saturday. He was 48. The band confirmed the news on social media. The cause of death was not disclosed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,\u201d Limp Bizkit wrote on Instagram<\/a>, sharing a photo of Rivers. \u201cSam Rivers wasn\u2019t just our bass player \u2014 he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRivers and Fred Durst met while in Jacksonville, Florida and first played together in the short-lived Malachi Sage. In 1994 after that band fizzled, they teamed up with drummer John Otto to form Limp Bizkit. Shortly afterward, guitarist Wes Borland joined them, rounding out the original lineup that expanded to include DJ Lethal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom the first note we ever played together, Sam brought a light and a rhythm that could never be replaced,\u201d the band continued in its statement on Saturday. \u201cHis talent was effortless, his presence unforgettable, his heart enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey released their first album, Three Dollar Bill Y\u2019all in 1997. But it was their 1999 sophomore album Significant Other, powered by its single \u201cNookie,\u201d that shot the band to Number One on the Billboard 200 and solidified their trajectory as rap-rock behemoths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTheir third effort, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water released in 2000, made history at the time, with the highest debut week sales for a rock album, eventually achieving multiplatinum status.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Borland was in and out of the band beginning in 2001 (he returned in 2004) and DJ Lethal weaved in and out and in as a member as well, Rivers and Otto remained with Limp Bizkit and played on all of their records, and also provided backing vocals, before their first hiatus in 2006. During the band\u2019s hiatus, Rivers worked as a producer. In 2002, he collaborated on Queen of the Damned: Music from the Motion Picture.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2015, Rivers left the band reportedly due to a degenerative disc disease, but he later revealed in the book Raising Hell (Backstage Tales From the Lives of Metal Legends) that he had liver disease. \u201cI had to leave Limp Bizkit in 2015 because I felt so horrible, and a few months after that I realized I had to change everything because I had really bad liver disease,\u201d Rivers reveals in the book. \u201cI quit drinking and did everything the doctors told me. I got treatment for the alcohol and got a liver transplant, which was a perfect match,\u201d he said in the book, per Loudwire<\/a>. He returned to the band in 2018 and remained a member until his death.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLimp Bizkit released their most recent album in 2021, Still Sucks, which was their first album in a decade. In September, they released the song \u201cMaking Love to Morgan Wallen<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their statement on Saturday, the surviving members of Limp Bizkit wrote, \u201cWe shared so many moments \u2014 wild ones, quiet ones, beautiful ones \u2014 and every one of them meant more because Sam was there.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of human. A true legend of legends. And his spirit will live forever in every groove, every stage, every memory,\u201d the band continued. \u201cWe love you, Sam. We\u2019ll carry you with us, always. Rest easy, brother. Your music never ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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