Limp Bizkit
Bassist Sam Rivers Dead at 48
Published October 18, 2025 5:06 PM PDT
Sam Rivers — the bassist for the rock-rap group Limp Bizkit — has died … according to an official statement posted to the band’s Instagram.
The group announced the news Saturday evening … revealing Sam passed away earlier in the day and calling him their “heartbeat.”
Sam wasn’t just a bass player, the group say — he “was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.”
Outside of the music, the band writes that Sam was a once-in-a-lifetime person and a legend among legends.
The message ends, “Rest easy, brother. Your music never ends.”
Rivers grew up playing with Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto … and, he met Fred Durst while working at Chick-fil-A in the early 1990s.
Originally, Rivers, Otto and Durst made up all of Limp Bizkit … then, they added guitarist Wes Borland and DJ Lethal to complete their group in 1996.
Over the next three decades, Limp Bizkit rocked stages all over the world … dropping six studio albums — including the critically-acclaimed “Significant Other” and “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water” in 1999 and 2000 respectively.
Rivers temporarily left the group in 2015 … later revealing it was because he developed a liver disease due to excessive drinking. He received a liver transplant and rejoiend the group in 2020.
Rivers was 48.
RIP
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