Riggormortis Posthumous Muscular Rigidity Lyrics

Riggormortis Posthumous Muscular Rigidity lyrics

The tepid carcass examinately reclines on my table

Its peculiar muscular
activity, rigor mortis, works in

my favor

Determining PMI through
rigid, bone-cracking means

Postmortem rigidity occurs through the
depletion of

ATP...

Adenosine triphosphate is required for
muscle

relaxation

But metabolic activity continues after death
and

creates a reaction

Lactid acid is spent and exhausts the store
of

glycogen

Muscles go hard from the abnormal links between
actin

and myosin...

This maturating stiff...

Becomes quite
stiff...

Positioning the corpse can be quite a Herculean task

As I
bend the crepitating unmalleable limbs with

revolting cracks

Obstinate appendages stubbornly give way under my

dragoon efforts

My aching muscles are overtaxed and pushed well passed

discomfort...

...Paralytic legs, unflexing arms...

...Carrion
with all its frozen charm...

...Unmoving torso, intractable neck...

...Deplorable corpse a total wreck...

Between 2 and 12 hours is the
solidifying time

required

For abductors and adductors to become
unyieldingly

mired

It will take a day for outstretched extremities
to

acquiesce

Finally amenable to my adroit limb-wrenching
finesse...

The lampooning hu-mannequin's muscle proteins are

devoured

As the taciturn body achieves maximal rigor in 12

hours

12 hours more and the muscular fiber grudgingly give

way

When the proteolytic enzymes in the lysosomes of

muscle
cells escape...

...Corpse piquantly olid...

...Now maceratedly
flaccid...

Barring rare cadaveric spasms, a PMI timeline can be

mapped

Factor in environmental variables and the effects they

can have

Ripening malodorous remains