Before starting the new band project in 2013, all three band members were successful as musicians on their own. The bagpipe player and vocalist Sandra Vabarna (then Sandra Sillamaa) has an academic degree in folk culture/music studies.[1][2] The original idea was to form a group performing Estonian folk music inspired by old traditional folk music and contemporary music.[3] Trad.Attack! sometimes uses samples from archive recordings as the lead vocals and backs them with their own original rock, pop, and electronic instrumentals.[4]
The eleven tracks of their fourth full-length studio album Make Your Move (2020) extend the boundaries of the folk genre with distorted guitars, floor-filling beats and effect pedal manipulated bagpipes.[6] They want to have a stage sound as big as a trio can produce by technical means. Drummer Tõnu Tubli plays also trombone. All songs were tested to work for big festival stage audiences as well as unplugged.[1] They released MYMIATURES - Songs That Never Grew Up in 2020. It features short tracks of songs that already made it to Make Your Move as well as tracks that for now have remained to an idea level.[citation needed]
In 2021 the band released We Miss Playing for You, an album of live recordings.[citation needed] In 2022 Trad.Attack! collaborated with 19 remixers and released Remixed, an album with remixes from the band's discography.
On March 31, 2023 Trad.Attack! released their fifth studio album Bring It On. The album was nominated for Ethno/Folk Album of The Year at the Estonian Music Awards 2024. "Bring It On" won Album of The Year award at the Estonian pop music awards "Kuldne Plaat 2024".