Lineup changes can be the bane of a band’s existence, in some cases causing it to crash and burn before it even plays a single show. But Virginia-based post-hardcore band Milemarker has repeatedly overcome this, playing together in various forms for more than nine years and releasing 13 albums, EPs, singles and splits.

Although members have come and gone, one of the group’s founding members, Dave Laney, said he believes that this has actually helped rather than hurt Milemarker’s sound.

“Things just change. For some bands it doesn’t work; for some bands, it’s like, ‘There’s these four people and if anyone quits or can’t be in the band then that’s it.'” Laney says. “And I think that’s super cool and it works really good for a lot of bands, but Milemarker, from pretty much from day one, has been the band that people were in and people were out of or recording or different people were helping out. The band transforms in part because of these people, which, to us, is a positive thing. I think we’ve been playing with Noah [Leger] for almost four years now and I think he was drummer No. 10 or something.”

Drawing from members past and present is something Milemarker does without realizing it, Laney says. He says the band’s many members and the influences they bring to the band make it better.

“It’s not necessarily what each person can bring to the band but what the band is with those people in it.” He says. “It’s sort of the chemical reaction between all the people, rather than, ‘This guy is an awesome drummer and he plays drums like he does in his other band or his past bands,’ or whatever it is. It’s not really about what any one person does, but it’s about how those people interact together.”

That collective mentality is what helped the band once again reshape its sound on its most recent album, “Ominosity.” This was the first album that the band, and Laney, felt was put together really well. They spent more time on this particular album, making sure it was exactly how they wanted it, Laney says.

“It feels a little more developed to me; the end product seems a little bit more like what we were going for in the beginning,” he says. “Sometimes we record and I think the end product is really terrible or not what we were going for.”

Laney says the newest album is his favorite, but he cannot put into words what the band was actually going for.

“We try to put it into sounds,” Laney says. “The record comes off the way I was hoping it would come off, rather than, sometimes when we recorded, I thought it was a misrepresentation.”

To get to this point, Laney says they took more time with the recording process than they had earlier albums.

“It was all over the place in terms of people coming in and coming out and doing stuff and organizing two people to come in on this one day type of thing and organizing a lot of schedules,” Laney says. “I think there were 12 or 13 people that played on the record, something like that. It was a lot of scatterbrain working stuff out whenever you can be working it out.”

What: Milemarker with Meth and Goats

Where: Vaudeville Mews, 212 4th St. Des Moines

When: 9:00 p.m. Wednesday

Cost: $7