Typically when I hit these kinds of problems I remove stuff and try again. Sound fixes, USB fixes, Power management fixes, all that stuff, especially if you're coming from a Sierra system to a High Sierra System or using a clover EFI folder from a working Sierra, is a possible culprit. config.plist patches either may not work if they worked for Sierra or worse, brick your system.
Try reviewing the clover EFI folder you're booting, and temporarily removing from both /kexts/other (or /S/L/E or /L/E if you put any non-vanilla kexts there) and config.plist any USB, sound, or power management fixes. The goal being to get to a broken but booting system possibly without all USB working, no sound, and no power management and crappy VESA graphics until you can fix each of those issues.
You might try booting with apfs.efi in /drivers64UEFI (or wherever appropriate for your system) (/drivers64UEFI/EmuVariableUefi-64.efi causes install issues for some systems so remove that temporarily if you have it), kexts/other just with FakeSMC.kext and your ethernet kext, using USB2 port on upper back of machine. Remove or disable all USB and sound patches in config.plist for now. As you make config.plist changes keep the earlier "working" one around because at clover boot you can manually override using config.plist and use instead, e.g., config-1.plist.