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Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers has died, the band announced on Instagram on Oct. 18

Rivers was 48 years old

"Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat," the band wrote in a touching tribute

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers has died, the band announced in a statement. He was 48.

On Saturday, Oct. 18, the nu metal band shared a post on Instagram announcing that Rivers had died earlier in the day. The group did not share his cause of death.

"Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat," the band wrote in the caption, alongside a photo of Rivers performing onstage.

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," the band continued. "From the first note we ever

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