"symphony for a genocide" was released on nigel ayers' sterile records label after bianchi had sent ayers the money to press it. each track on the lp was named after a nazi extermination camp. the cover featured photographs of the auschwitz orchestra, a group of concentration camp prisoners who were forced to play classical music as people were herded into the gas chambers. the back cover included the text "the moral of this work: the past punishment is the inevitable blindness of the present".