Sam Rivers, a founding member and bassist for the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, died on Saturday at the age of 48, his bandmates said in a social media post.

“Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” lead singer Fred Durst, guitarist Wes Borland, drummer John Otto and turntable DJ Lethal wrote in a tribute posted on Instagram Saturday evening.

“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,” the message read.

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    The band did not provide details about Rivers’s cause of death.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rivers left the band in 2015 after being diagnosed with liver disease, but returned to the stage following a liver transplant in 2018.

    Rivers said that he got the disease from “excessive drinking.”