Sam Rivers, bass player for Limp Bizkit, has died at 48, the band says

Sam Rivers, the bass participant for the metallic band Limp Bizkit, has died, the band mentioned on social media. He was 48.

The band mentioned Rivers died on Saturday however didn’t disclose the place he died or the circumstances. They described him as “pure magic” and “the soul within the sound.”

“From the primary be aware we ever performed collectively, Sam introduced a light-weight and a rhythm that might by no means get replaced. His expertise was easy, his presence unforgettable, his coronary heart huge,” the band wrote in an Instagram post asserting his dying. “We shared so many moments — wild ones, quiet ones, stunning ones — and each certainly one of them meant extra as a result of Sam was there.”

The band added: He was a once-in-a-lifetime form of human. A real legend of legends. And his spirit will stay endlessly in each groove, each stage, each reminiscence.”

Fred Durst, the band’s frontman and lead vocalist, posted a video Sunday morning that recounted how they met at a membership in Jacksonville Seaside, Florida, and went on to musical stardom and performances across the globe. Durst mentioned he has shed “gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday.”

“He actually did have an effect on the world and his music and his reward is the one which’s going to maintain on giving,” Durst mentioned. “I simply love him a lot.”

Rivers had spoken of heavy consuming that had triggered liver illness. He left the band in 2015 and obtained a liver transplant earlier than reuniting with Limp Bizkit three years later.

Limp Bizkit has scheduled a tour of Central and South America to start in Mexico Metropolis in late November.

Durst mentioned he and Rivers shared a love of grunge music, naming the bands Mom Love Bone, Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots.

“He had this sort of potential to drag this stunning disappointment out of the bass that I would by no means heard,” Durst mentioned, calling Rivers “so gifted I am unable to clarify.”

Limp Bizkit, with roots in Jacksonville, Florida, emerged within the late Nineteen Nineties with a sound that melds various rock, heavy metallic and rap.

Their off-the-wall humorousness is mirrored within the titles of their mega-selling 2000 album, “Chocolate Starfish and the Sizzling Canine Flavored Water,” and a single launched final month, “Making Like to Morgan Wallen.”