I listen to a lot of metal music, specifically a lot of progressive metal, do you know any progmetal bands?
I actually don't know anything about metal music, I only know the band AFI
That's interesting, I was friends of a friend of Davey Havok in high scool
what is specifically is a progmetal band?
It started in the 1970s with bands like King Crimson from the UK, they were like a heavier answer to Pink Floyd, but it's basically what you call a heavy oriented soup of a million other styles (jazz, samba, bebop, etc)
so is it what is considered screamo? 
Nope, screamo is a much "skram"ier posthard core rock influenced sound, much more pop driven, whereas Progmetal implements complex music theory and odd time signatures such as 11/8 or 9/8 with more frequent modal changes
wow i honestly don't know anything about music production and the 11/8 or 9/8 sounds very tehnical
Time signature
The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are contained in each measure (bar), and which note value is equivalent to a beat.
In a music score, the time signature appears at the beginning as a time symbol or stacked numerals, such as or (read "common time" and "three-four time", respectively), immediately following the
name. In our own special way we're tearing shit apart, you just have to listen very carefully. Musically I knew it was never going to be a metal band, but I thought lyrically there were fangs to the music." Bejar added in 2008, "I was actually so out of it I didn't know that there was a Kiss record called Destroyer because I didn't know anything about Kiss. I still don't know anything about them. I just thought it was a cool rock-and-