Chimaira has released four albums in its nine years together, including this year’s “Resurrection.” From left are Andols Herrick, Rob Arnold, Mark Hunter, Matt Devries, Chris Spicuzza and Jim LaMarcha.

The classic 1984 film “This is Spinal Tap” expertly parodied one of rock ’n’ roll’s oldest clichés, but for many bands, the revolving door of drummers is no joke.

The road to rocking is littered with bands that were wiped out by an inability to adequately fill the seat behind the skins.

Take the Cleveland-based electro-thrash-metal band Chimaira, for instance. The sextet, which will play Wednesday at the Domino Room (see “If You Go”), was on the verge of disintegration in 2006 because of problems with then-drummer Kevin Talley, frontman Mark Hunter bluntly told Revolver magazine earlier this year.

“We didn’t want to (be in a band) anymore because we weren’t happy. And a lot of that was due to Kevin, so we decided to get rid of him,” Hunter said in the interview. (For his part, Talley explained the situation to Revolver this way: “(Hunter) and I didn’t really get along because I like people, and he hates them.”)

Whatever the problem, Talley’s departure allowed Chimaira to bring back longtime drummer Andols Herrick, who quit the band in 2004 after what he calls “a complete meltdown,” according to the Revolver article. With the group’s chemistry back in working order, Chimaira named its fourth album “Resurrection” and released it last spring on Ferret Records. Fans of bone-crushing, groove-heavy metal will find much to like on “Resurrection.” Metal authority Kerrang! magazine certainly did. They gave it four K’s out of five and called it “electrifyingly visceral and arse-kickingly energetic” and “a relentless mix of pure heaviness and barely controlled fury.” Oh, and “the sound of a band reborn.”

Reborn. Resurrected.

And ready to hang on to their drummer for a while.

IF YOU GO

What: Chimaira, with openers Terror, Kataklysm, Divine Heresy

When: 8 p.m. Wednesday, doors open 7 p.m.

Where: Domino Room, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend

Cost: $16 plus service charges in advance, $18 at the door. Advance tickets are available at Side Effect Boardshop (312-8255) or through Ticketswest at www.ticketswest.com and the Safeway at 642 N.E. Third St., in Bend. Charge by phone at 800-992-8499.

Contact: 388-1106 or www.myspace.com/catapultmusicpresents