That depends on alot of things. Firstly, it depends how much money NB USA spent on promoting the record, as well as any advances. CD profits from physical retail are usually about $3 per record sold after manufacturing costs and distribution fees, so that means the net profit for all those sales comes out to around $54,000 at least. Some of those are digital sales so in that case that number would be even larger as the profit margin for digital sales is higher (about $7 per digital album sold). The band sold even more records than 18,000 when considering that the label does its own pre-order packages that don't count towards Soundscan figures.
All of these factors would lead me to estimate that the gross earning from all the sales would yield around $100 k USD (if you factor in pre-order bundles that the label sells separately from the stores, early digital sales, etc) so far. If we're to assume that the label spent $ 50 k on promoting and marketing it (which is my rough guestimation of how much was spent), then those budgets were recouped, leaving $50,000 net profits. I am purposely not factoring in recording costs, video advances, and artwork advances because I imagine that European sales would have recouped those costs anyways (the album comes out earlier in Europe if I'm not mistaken).
Royalty rates differ from band to band. A band like Meshuggah that is well known, established, and sells lots of records may have a 50-50 royalty split with its label, so if that was the case it would see 50% all net profits earned. So if we're to take my hypothetical guestimations seriously, Meshugghah would have made over $75,000 from current sales. However, if the band has an industry-standard 15% royalty deal (which I doubt, but you never know), Meshuggah would have made over $22,000 from royalties.
However even all of this is uncertain. If the band has a publishing deal (which I know for a fact Meshuggah has), the entire game changes. In some publishing deals, the publisher gets all rights to the recordings and the songwriting, advances the band a huge fee (HUGE; like 250,000 euro all the way up to the million + euro range) and the band spends portions of that money on making the record. However I'm not sure what the terms of this deal are, so I'm not even going to bother guessing how it works for them.
