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

Rivers' death was confirmed by the band, who wrote online on Saturday: "today we lost our brother".

"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," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday. "He 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."

The band did not share any details about his death.

Rivers' last post on social media was on Friday, in which he shared a "Save The Date" video for Limp Bizkit performing at the Rock for People festival in Hradec Králové, a city in the Czech Republic, in June 2026. Rivers and

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