Details Emerge About Possible Cause of Death For Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers

Just days aft the death of Limp Bizkit co-founder bassist Sam Rivers astatine property 48 of undisclosed causes, TMZ is reporting that a spokesperson for St. Johns County, Florida Fire Rescue said they responded to a telephone connected Saturday (Oct. 18) for a “nonresponsive idiosyncratic successful cardiac arrest.”

At property clip nary authoritative origin of decease had been announced and the gossip tract added that a spokesperson for the St. Johns County Sheriff’s bureau said that deputies responded to what is referred to arsenic an “attended death” astatine Rivers’ address, meaning a telephone successful which the deceased was a diligent nether aesculapian attraction for a superior oregon life-threatening unwellness apt to effect successful a near-term death.

Billboard reached retired to the St. Johns Country Fire Rescue and Sheriff’s offices — as good arsenic Limp Bizkit’s spokesperson — for comment, but had not heard backmost astatine property time.

Rivers, 48, was diagnosed with liver illness successful 2011 owed to excessive drinking and received a liver transplant successful 2017 aft taking a impermanent permission from the nu-metal set successful 2015, earlier returning successful 2018.

Singer Fred Durst posted an emotional tribute to Rivers connected Monday saying, “it’s truthful tragic he’s not present now” and admitting that he’d gone done “gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and I’m thinking, ‘my God, Sam’s a legend,’ you know? He did it. He lived it.” Earlier, the set — which besides features guitarist Wes Borland, DJ Lethal and drummer John Otto — released a associated connection paying tribute to their beloved compatriot.

“Sam Rivers wasn’t conscionable our bass subordinate — helium was axenic magic,” the radical said. “The pulse beneath each song, the calm successful the chaos, the psyche successful the sound. From the archetypal enactment we ever played together, Sam brought a airy and a bushed that could ne'er beryllium replaced. His endowment was effortless, his beingness unforgettable, his bosom enormous.”

At property clip it appeared the set planned to transportation connected with its planned precocious 2025 ...