I got used to stuff like this from my old mates at Mainline Soundsystem (remember them?)
It becomes a competition between who can be the hardest producer, and then the DJ`s compete with this type of music to be the hardest DJ.

And to be honest with you, I don`t find it hard at all. It`s SO hard that it becomes soft, if you get me. It`s just relentless to the point where it`s like working near (or on) a building site for a while. You just don`t take notice of it anymore.

you can be so much more disturbing and hard, when you slow it down a bit, and put a lot of thought into sound design, rather than the old "oh just get any old synth and distort the barsteward" attitude.