Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers’ Emergency Call Came in as a Heart Attack

Sam Rivers — the bassist for nu metal band Limp Bizkit — died Saturday… and now we have a better idea of ​​what happened.

A spokesperson for the St. Johns County, Florida Fire Department tells TMZ… they responded to a call Saturday regarding an “unresponsive person in cardiac arrest.”

The final cause of death is still unclear, but a representative for the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Department told TMZ… “Deputies responded to an assisted death at this address.” An “assisted death” is a situation in which the deceased has been a patient under medical care for a serious or life-threatening illness that will likely result in death within a relatively short period of time – days or months, but not years.

Rivers temporarily left Limp Bizkit in 2015… later revealing it was because he developed liver disease from excessive alcohol consumption. He received a liver transplant and joined the group in 2018.

The group announced the news of his death Saturday night, they called it their “heartbeat.”

Sam wasn’t just a bassist, the band said: he “was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.”

Rivers was 48 years old.