Nü-metal icons Limp Bizkit have uploaded their video tribute to their fallen bassist/vocalist Sam Rivers. The 48-year-old musician passed away on October 18th, 2025. A technically gifted player, Rivers was a co-founding member of the band and contributed numerous memorable bass lines to their various hits. While his cause of death was not publicly revealed, a police report on his passing offered some insight into his untimely death.
This newly uploaded video package, soundtracked by Limp Bizkit‘s 2003 track “Drown“, appears to be the same one Limp Bizkit debuted last fall upon returning to the stage for the first time since Rivers‘ passing. That set took place November 29th, 2025 at the Estadio Fray Nano in Mexico City, Mexico and saw the debut of Rivers‘ live successor, Ecca Vandal bassist Richie “Kid Not” Buxton.
Tributes to Rivers poured in from across the globe in the wake of his death, with many of his peers also publicly mourning him and praising his playing. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst made it clear the monumental contributions Rivers provided to Limp Bizkit in this personal tribute video, stating, “What he’s left us behind is priceless. He was such a special person.”
Upon announcing Rivers passing last October, Limp Bizkit collectively referred to him as, “The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.” In a rare interview, Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu shared praise for Rivers, having shared the stage with him on numerous occasions. Fieldy told the Shady Characters podcast of his fallen friend:
“I’m friends with all the guys in Limp Bizkit. So you know, it hurt my heart, man. I heard about that because I’m friends with Sam and all those guys.
We kicked it all the time. I used to go out — my son showed me — he’s like, ‘Dad, check this out’ — And it’s like [a video in which] I’m playing a Limp Bizkit bassline on tour with them and then he comes up, Sam comes up, and he like looks at me and I’m like, ‘Oh.’ And I give [the bass] to him. It’s like a gag we did every single night. ‘Cause you’re in a different city. It wasn’t like today, you do it one night and It’s all over the internet.
So we were doing that and I’m like listening to it and I told my son, ‘That’s a dope bass player.’ Look how much better he’s playing that than me. The way that he moves his fingers and the way that he finesses the strings. He’s sick. So I even knew that, because the first time I went down to Jacksonville, I picked up John Otto [Limp Bizkit drummer] and Sam, and I went back to their house and John Otto had a drum kit in there and Sam had his bass stuff.
I don’t know these kids. And they’re like, ‘Hey, you want to jam with John Otto?’ And I’m like, ‘I’ma show these kids what’s up right now.’ You know, because we were playing somewhere in town, and this is in the beginning of Korn — it was like a little club or something like that. So, I get on, do my my clickity clackity, you know. And I go, ‘You play man.’ You know, I already killed it in my head. He plays. he gets done. I’m like, ‘I suck man. You are dope. You’re so much better than me.’ I told him straight out. I remember that. I was embarrassed. I’m like, ‘You rip.’ That’s one of my two favorite rhythm sections.”
